This is hilarious!

Up until I was about 19 or 20, I had a lot of trouble telling time on a regular clock. I was so used to digital clocks that any time I had to look at a regular analog clock, I got all confused.

And until about a year ago, I couldn't pump my own gas. BUT WAIT, here's why: in NJ, where I lived for most of my driving life, it's illegal to pump your own gas. Every gas station in the state is full service (I think they do it to make jobs). Even after I moved to Philly, I worked in NJ so I still got my gas there, because it was cheaper. And then after I started working in Philly, I STILL got my gas in NJ because Aaron lived there. I didn't start buying gas in PA until Aaron moved in with me last April. So until then, i couldn't pump my own gas!

haha whip! i didn't learn how to pump gas until i was 20, but that's b/c i only got my license when i was 19 (i grew up in nyc, didn't need it before then).... ahhh.... the little things in life..... HAHAH.... so did you finally have to confess to someone and ask them to teach you???

Aaron taught me, finally.

Geez, thanks, Liza! I said it was a SECRET!
Oh well, aside from the now very publicly known fact that I can't swim, here are the other things I can't do:

I cannot (and have never been able to) do math in my head. I'm talking easy stuff. Simple addition, subraction, multiplication, and division. I still count on my fingers. Get into double digits and I have to break out the calculator. And a sale that's anything other than 50% off? I'm screwed.

I S-U-C-K at sports. Always have. Dodgeball was the bane of my existence in 9th and 10th grade. (I took all 4 semesters of P.E. those two years so I wouldn't have to do any physical activity my junior and senior years.) I did gymnastics when I was little, but my upper body strength was basically nonexistent and then I hurt my wrist and never went back to it.

I can't keep up with music. It just exhausts me. One day this one is it, then next day, they're out...if any of you looked threw my CD case, you'd probably laugh.

I CANNOT dance. It's really quite pitiful. And when I say dance, I mean choreographed stuff. I can tap my foot and keep a beat, but ask me to be in the school play and I'm toast. In fact, one year, I tried out for "Bye, Bye Birdie" and 3 minutes into the practice session for tryouts, I quit and told the director I'd rather do makeup.

I can't cook. Or maybe it's that I won't cook. Either way I really just hate it. The other night I made something for dinner and my husband was like, "Isn't it fun being all domestic?" And said, "Have you lost your mind? I hate this!"

I can't compete. In anything. I have no competitive bone in my body. Maybe that's why I was so bad at sports.

That's all I can think of right now.

yet another reason to love him! haha!

you girls are hilarious!
I can't drive, it all derives from my total incapability of calculating space, distances and my being so easy to distract...

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rcl - i'm cracking up here! we're apperently life-skill-challanged-sisters:

1. i majored in finance and now work in finance, but CAN NOT do simple arithmatic in my head! i bring a calculator with me everywhere... just in case!
2. sports? i DON'T think so! the only reason i passed the last required PE in high school is b/c the teacher felt bad for me and let me do some work in the office to make up for all the classes i had missed... i broke my thumb playing vollyball and passed out while running laps b/c i was scowling and not breathing enough..... HOW does someone DO THAT?
3. i love to go out and dance, but anything where i have to keep up with choreographed steps? FORGET IT! i take cardio-kick boxing at my gym and am CONSTANTLY kicking and shoving people next to me b/c i can't keep up with the steps....

Oh, I remembered one other one...goes hand in hand with the not being able to dance...I can't do aerobics of any kind. I'm completely uncoordinated and I look like...I don't know what I can say without sounding offensive. Just really stupid.

a few months ago i went skiing with a bunch of my friends and all the pictures of them are spectacular, off-trail, all athletic - all the pictures of me? well, i'm laying in the snow in odd positions, obviously unhapy!

special! hehheeee...

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shi -i see you're enjoying our 'disabilities' hahahaha

I can't drive a stick. But then, again, I guess a lot of people can't.

hahhaaaa... I find it really funny when I get lost riding my bicycle just a cpl of blocks away from home! Lucky me I always find nice people to help me out

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RCL, I think you are competitive- for one thing you are type A.. hello,,, and for the second you do the devilish challenge everyday which is kind of competitive!

I can't:
1. Type!!!! I use three fingers
2. I have no clue how to use an ipod....???
3. Sports of any kind frighten me... the ball usually hits me square in the face

that's hilarious redegg and I mean that in a cute way!
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Oh, that's true...didn't think about that. But still...competition annoys me. Like, when I was little, I didn't realize that not everyone felt this way, so I'd always be the last one to the door after recess, or the last on in line for lunch, or the last one to the ice cream truck. No one told me everything was a competition.

Maybe I only compete at things that I think I'll be good at? OOOh, we are really diggin' deep today.

Add ipod to my list as well. I didn't get that green one for my birthday so I'm still i-Illiterate.

Yea, all i-things annoy me because I have no clue how to use them.
Also, I'm bad at staying on task when I'm in my home office becasue I keep getting on teamsugar! I'm supposed to be looking for these stupid dining chairs and a desk that totally doesn't have enough space... anyway.

teamsugar is frankly distracting. When I have stuff to do I just must stay away from it or you girls will suck me in and then I can't leave!

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I can't wink.

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well, lets see...
1) I don't know my left from my right either. But the "which hand makes a L" trick doesn't work for me b/c I'm dyslexic & I don't know which one IS the L!!
2) I can't do math in my head. none whatsoever. none at all. I don't even bother to try. My mom can only do "shopping math", like figuring out discounts 7 stuff!
3) I am HORRIBLE w/ direction! I was 20 minutes late to my grandma's funeral b/c I got lost in the teeny tiny town 30 minutes away that I've been visiting my whole life.
$) I don't know how to sled. I know that sounds wierd but it is flat where I live & there is no snow here.
I'm sure there are more & that they'll come to me!

I clearly lack the capacity to proofread as well

This is great, what a fun way to look at your flaws...

1) I cant do math either, and I SWEAR I am number dyslexic. I can be reading a book, put it down at page number 12 and pick it up and start reading at page 21 and confuse the heck out of myself. It's awful .

2) I cant keep a secret. I TRY!!! I just cant. All my friends know this though...

3) I am just plain awful at any kind of sport that requires any kind of hand/foot on ball contact like soccer or basketball. I can play the heck out of some tennis or golf, but look like a fool trying to kick a soccer ball around. I even broke my big toe once.

I know there is more....

I STILL get the letters b & d mixed up. My 1st grade teacher (Sr. Maria, what an awesome nun) wrote on my report cards that I got them mixed up, now almost 20 years later, I still do.
I get 5 & 7 mixed up. I have no idea why...

At least if you ever got a D on your report card , it would seem like a B!

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ok girls here it goes
1) i can´t swim either so don´t feel bad
2) i can´t type
3) i can´t do math
4) i have a lot of trouble parking my car, and don´t even get me started on the parallel parking thing

i can´t think of more things, but i´m sure there´s more

i do not know my right from left if im in the passengeer seat i have to point which way to go cause i always opposite of the way we should be going. i also CANNOT sit still i have adult add and im always tappin re adjusting my seatin. crossin uncrossing my legs etc. im sure there are others but i have to think

Hahahahaha.. I love it. I can't drive stick either! I can't jump for shizit. I'm 5'0 nothing.. I loved Volleyball, but my coach subbed me out everytime I was supposed to rotate in the front row. How embarassing! A**!

I also cannot watch television and be involved in a conversation. I seriously can't do both. I'm either watching tv and have NO idea what ther person next to me (or on the phone) is saying.. or I'm talking and have no idea what just happened on my favorite show. Haha.

i can drive stick when my dad taught me at 16 i was so focused on the stick and the pedals that i hit a fence

♥ I can't ski correctly to save my life. I cannot master the side to side thing...so I just go to the top, lean forward, and shoot down the side of the mountain like a bullet and then lay down and slide to a stop

♥ I can't reach things on high shelves...or medium shelves for that matter

♥ I'm sure I'll think of more in a minute...

oh i cant ski either at all.. and i grew up in the poconos for god sakes

Okay, I thought of more:

I can't put on self-tanner to save my life
I can't pronounce the word "entrepreneur" correctly (or "entrepreneurial," for that matter)
I can't ski (but only because I've never BEEN skiing)
I can't keep my eyebrows groomed

I cant do the phone/tv thing either. And I also cant read email and talk on the phone at the same time, which has gotten me into some QUTIE sticky situations over the years. Maybe not the best idea to zone out your most important client to read an email from your boyfriend

I didn't even include sports because I suck pretty much at all of them!

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haha! I love driving stick, so much that I can't drive an automatic anymore! I also can't blow dry my hair, or even flat iron it. I'm just not coordinated enough (or am too lazy to practice, whatever)

i cant do my own blow out for hair although i can do a mean upsweep and forget about painting my own nails or toes.. they look like i dipped my finger in the bottle lol

I CAN'T SKI EITHER
I'M NOT AFRAID OF HIGHTS BUT I'M KINDA AFRAID OF ROLLER COASTERS

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THANKS SWEETC FOR REMIND ME THAT I CAN NOT BLOW DRY MY OWN HAIR. I'M LEFTY SO I DON'T KNOW HOW TO HOLD THE DRYER IN ONE HAND THEN THE BRUSH WITH THE OTHER ONE... I CAN'T EVEN EXPLAIN IT

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Oh I thought of another: I can't be as carefree as everyone else. I have odd little OCD tendencies that until I fix/do whatever it is, I will be a nervous, twitching wreck!

OMG me too Atox... lol

I obsess at times when things aren't the way they supposed to be for example: If the tooth bushes aren't in the order and the way I want I get annoyed or if the couches aren't in the right spot with one another it bothers me too

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I can't roll my R's or purr like a cat. But, I can roll my tongue like a belly dancers stomach or wave (weird, I know). I get my left and right confused ALL the time. I have zero sense of direction, for the most part (expect in malls - I can navigate easily. lol). I've never been able to water ski. I have never tried snow skiing, but bet I would be horrible at it. I'm sure there are a lot of other things; I can't think of at the moment.

I FREAK OUT when people say fifty cenT instead on fifty cenTS. Drives me nuts!!

I can't blow my nose quietly. I sound like a foghorn EVERY time!

jinx, me too! i cannot wink, i end up scrunching up my face and looking like a weirdo. good thing i've found other ways to flirt.

i also can't pump my own gas without my husband telling me how to do it. i just have never had a car of my own and never got the practice, i always use public transit or bike. i'm just re-learning how to drive a car now.

I cannot roller skate/roller blade/roller anything on my feet - I am completely uncoordinated!

Also I cannot leave my house without checking that I turned off all appliances off - three times. It is by far OCD. If I unplug my curling iron I have to go back and check two times that it was turned off. I have already been at work (20 minutes away) and had to turn around and go home to check it. We have been at weddings and I had to leave to check to make sure I turned the iron off. I have found that the third tiem I remember that the appliance is off! LOL

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this is a great post, Liza

I can't dive into water

I can't open my eyes under water

I can't play volleyball for the life of me

I can't drive a stick

I can't type while looking away from the pc screen, and I only use 7 fingers (red is my finger sista)

You guys are hilarious! Isn't it great thought that we can except what we can and can't do? I can't drive (and I don't want to) I can't spell (which is awful because I'm an english as a second language teacher) I still don't know my left from my right, (which sends my husband into hysterics every time i check my hands for the L!)

I can't swim.
I can't dance.
I don't like to talk on the phone.
I can't park a car to save my life. I always get spots way in the back so I can just pull in without any danger of hitting another car.
and apparently I can't sleep anymore! lol

My dad taught me how to drive with a stick shift. I miss them now!

I cant multi task well. If Im trying to read something and someone asks me a question, I have to stop reading or answer excruciatingly slow. Also, along these lines, I cant read books for pleasure or class while listening to music. I have to really focus on the words and reading becomes difficult. This is why I think I work and study best in dead silence, Im not one to listen to music as I study.

I can't read on the train or buses like others do b/c either I'll get a headache or I get car sick...

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sexy - i can't read in the car either, i get sick right away