Gordie's Midday Gossip - Simple things that you can't do

What’s Something So Simple . . . Yet You’re So Horrible At?

People online are talking about “simple things” that they’re “horrible at.” And the best ones include: Estimating how much pasta to cook, wrapping gifts and shuffling cards. Here are the top 20.

1. Estimating how much pasta to cook.

2. Wrapping gifts.

3. Following driving directions. Or giving directions. Or having a sense of cardinal directions. Or even telling left from right.

4. Parallel parking. This isn’t always simple, depending on the space you have.

5. Perceiving time.

6. Whistling.

7. Sleeping.

8. Doing anything while someone is watching.

9. Applying eyeshadow.

10. Hula hooping.

11. Making rice.

12. Making hard boiled eggs.

13. Operating a manual can opener.

14. Eating with chopsticks.

15. Shuffling cards.

16. Playing hacky sack.

17. Writing an ampersand.

18. “Rolling my Rs.”

19. Someone said, “I can’t tie a balloon after blowing it up.”

20. Someone said, “Drinking out of a glass. 9 times out of 10 I’ll slam the cup into my teeth or pour the drink on myself. I don’t have good depth perception.”