How are you dumb?

[katiek]

So I know we're all smart ladies here, but I assume (and hope I'm not alone!) that there are some things you can't remember or learn. What are they?

I can never remember which direction the sun rises or sets.

My H can't go between cups, ml, oz - I don't mean big conversions, just 1 cup = 250 ml = 8 oz.

[MrsMB]

I can't do metric conversions in the kitchen either.....  I have to google most. ha!

I need to know the world map better than I do. 

[megkat]

I'm terrible with the metric system. Like, really really terrible

I still make an L with my fingers sometimes to remember left from right

Oh! And I'm terrible with North/South/East/West

[Deleted]

 I'm just clumsy, like if I'm standing next to a table and there is a glass on it, there is a very high chance that somehow I will knock it over. I'm trying to be more aware of my surroundings, but it still happens.

I also have to consciously tell myself which pedal is the gas and which is the brake .

[HoneySpider]

Aug 28, 2014 11:17:12 GMT -5 MrsMB said:

I can't do metric conversions in the kitchen either.....  I have to google most. ha!

I need to know the world map better than I do. 

I'm with you on both of these

[mac08]

Simple math, like adding and subtracting numbers less than 100.

[miamigirl]

I get lost everywhere... I suck with directions!

[cactuscookie]

Left vs. right. I don't know what my problem is. Whenever I try to give DH directions, he has to ask me to doublecheck the right/left thing - and half the time I was wrong the first time. To get it right, I have to consciously remind myself that I read from left to right.

[wanderingenough]

There are some words I just can't learn to spell correctly. I usually only remember them when I need to spell them, but I know separate is one of them. I always want to spell it seperate.

[melsamoony]

Directions in general are my major weakness! Don't ask me for directions even to my own house if you don't want to get lost ;-)

[MrsMB]

Aug 28, 2014 11:54:47 GMT -5 wanderingenough said:

There are some words I just can't learn to spell correctly. I usually only remember them when I need to spell them, but I know separate is one of them. I always want to spell it seperate.

I do this with "recommend." Typing it just now, I even tried to spell it: reccomend. 

[HoneySpider]

I can't type, I invert letters all the time. I do the old point and peck, I never liked the proper way of typing.

I actually used to be a really fast typer even doing it improperly

[Deleted]

I mix up left and right all the time.

I also cannot spell to save my life. Thank goodness for spell check and dictionaries.

[spankswife]

I'm not a good writer. I feel like I write at a 3rd grade level.

It annoys me the most when signing cards, especially sympathy cards. I never write anything "beautiful."

I also feel like I don't convey my personality in writing, for example here, or in emails/fb/etc.

[melsamoony]

I also have words I never can spell right... Restaurant is one of them thank God for spell check and autocorrect (sometimes lol)

[Blue Moon]

I really struggle following paper directions. I do so much better watching someone do xyz first and then just copying them.

[krystee]

If you tell me to go west (or any direction), I will have no clue what to do. I need left or right, not direction.

[travelbug]

I am bad at converting measurements in the kitchen also...
Terrible at N/E/S/W
Directions on paper with Left and Rights...
Math problems.. I also couldn't pass a math test since being out of it for SO SO long!

[rockinrobyn]

Math and finances, just can't get it. I is really inconvenient when my regional manager comes to talk with me about budget. I feel like a 3 year old learning calculus. (A class I never took fyi)

[estrellita]

I'm not good with cooking. People are always talking about how they just throw things together randomly. I need a recipe! Unless it's something I've made a million times or is extremely easy (like a stir fry), I need to know measurements and how to cook it!

I'm also bad with tipping math. I know the trick with moving the decimal point over and doubling it to get 20%, but if I want to do more or less, I have to pull out my phone. I try to just guess (I like to round up or down to get to an even number) but then I have to double check that I didn't just give them too much or too little, haha.

[bk1]

Aug 28, 2014 14:04:13 GMT -5 krystee said:

If you tell me to go west (or any direction), I will have no clue what to do. I need left or right, not direction.

Me too.

The only place I know my directions is at the new house.