# Do you totally suck at anything? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 12, 2019, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-totally-suck-at-anything/835426 "2019-06-12T14:13:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Lare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/53a042/32.png) [@Lare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lare)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-totally-suck-at-anything/835426/101 "2019-06-25T15:58:47Z")
Yes, using straws. Drawing. Not drafting, I can do that well, but if you need me to freehand draw anything more complicated than a poorly-executed XKCD cartoon copy, it won’t be a good result. ---
**Author:** ![DrForrester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8edcca/32.png) [@DrForrester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrForrester)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-totally-suck-at-anything/835426/102 "2019-06-25T21:43:23Z")
When I was young, I wanted to go on a walk in a nearby wooded area. My father was busy & suggested that I should take the dog instead. I protested that I would never be able to find my way home if I went by myself. My father told me that when I wanted to go home, I should tell the dog to go home & that the dog would lead me. I’d never heard anything so insane. but… It worked. The dog knew his way home. I did not. And, this was not an isolated incident. It happened many times. David Letterman once said, “I don’t sing or dance & I don’t like being near people who can.” Sums it up nicely for me as well. ---
**Author:** ![ZonexandScout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zonexandscout/32/544_2.png) [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-totally-suck-at-anything/835426/103 "2019-06-25T22:30:10Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > engineer? Close. My idea of decorating a room is to find two similar, identically-sized prints and put them on either side of the door. I measure carefully to ensure they are at exactly the same height and the same distance from the door frame. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-totally-suck-at-anything/835426/104 "2019-06-26T14:13:00Z")
Another thing for me is tact. I am totally not a tactful person, mostly because I hate wasting time pussy footing around. I’m going to tell it like it is, and if you don’t like the way I say it, I don’t care. ---
**Author:** ![somepumpkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@somepumpkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/somepumpkin)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-totally-suck-at-anything/835426/105 "2019-06-26T15:03:07Z")
I cannot express myself accurately. The thoughts are concise and clear in my head, but they don’t make it out of my mouth or onto the page. I will most certainly be misunderstood/ignored in an argument or debate. I’ve surrendered to this fact, and now I (mostly) just STFU. I can communicate rote ideas and some concepts, but I’m wary to offer advice or opinion. I won’t be understood, and I might just lead someone down an unplanned rabbit hole. ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-totally-suck-at-anything/835426/106 "2019-06-26T15:17:30Z")
Teaching music… especially guitar. I have played guitar for almost 40 years… but can’t teach it. I can teach kids to play hockey, baseball, football, paddling, sailing or outdoor skills, etc… but I can’t teach guitar. Oh, and I can’t do Ziplock bags! ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2019, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-totally-suck-at-anything/835426/107 "2019-07-04T01:55:28Z")
Typing anything on my phone. I don’t know how some people manage do it with just their thumbs, said thumbs moving so fast it’s like a blur of motion. I usually have to poke it out with my right index finger. Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Skies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Skies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skies)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2019, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-totally-suck-at-anything/835426/108 "2019-07-04T02:53:02Z")
Math and science related courses beyond basic level stuff. I consistently did bad at many tests and projects, I had tutors, study partners and everything! ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2019, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-totally-suck-at-anything/835426/109 "2019-07-31T03:00:40Z")
Whistling. I used to be able to sound two or three notes by puckering my lips and blowing, like the woman said, but now I can’t even do that. I have never once successfully whistled through my fingers. Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2019, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-totally-suck-at-anything/835426/110 "2019-07-31T03:13:18Z")
> [@somepumpkin](#): > > I cannot express myself accurately. The thoughts are concise and clear in my head, but they don’t make it out of my mouth or onto the page. I will most certainly be misunderstood/ignored in an argument or debate. I’ve surrendered to this fact, and now I (mostly) just STFU. I don’t understand what you mean by that. 🙂 For me it’s singing. One of the great traumas of my childhood occurred in 8th grade music class. The first day, in order to determine our singing range I guess, the teacher had each student come up to the front of the room and sing a note after she played it on the piano. Mine went like this: Teacher: (ping) Me: La… Teacher: No, sing this note: (ping) Me: La… Teacher: No, you’re not singing the right note. Here: (ping) Me: La… This repeated a half dozen times. Then in order to make it even more humiliating, at that point the gods decided that a messenger would come to the class and call the teacher out of the room for a few minutes. As she left, the class broke out in laughter and jeered at me as I stood in the front waiting for her return. I was the only person in the class who apparently couldn’t repeat a note that was just played. Since that day, over 40 years ago, I have made sure never to sing when anyone else could hear me. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2019, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-totally-suck-at-anything/835426/111 "2019-07-31T13:49:09Z")
Directions. I always tell people its because I’m female, and men are better at that, but when I walk out of the doctors office, they have to show me which way to go. ---
**Author:** ![SurrenderDorothy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/surrenderdorothy/32/1221_2.png) [@SurrenderDorothy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SurrenderDorothy)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2019, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-totally-suck-at-anything/835426/112 "2019-08-01T00:10:06Z")
> [@somepumpkin](#): > > I cannot express myself accurately. The thoughts are concise and clear in my head, but they don’t make it out of my mouth or onto the page. I will most certainly be misunderstood/ignored in an argument or debate. I’ve surrendered to this fact, and now I (mostly) just STFU. > > I can communicate rote ideas and some concepts, but I’m wary to offer advice or opinion. I won’t be understood, and I might just lead someone down an unplanned rabbit hole. This reminds me of another thing I’m bad at: brevity. When I tell a story, I want to include background and details. If I try to express an idea, I tend to want to keep explaining and explaining until I think it’s clear. It’s even worse if someone tells me I’m a good writer because suddenly, I become kind of self-conscious about everything I write. So either I end up purpling up responses to threads about how you like your eggs or go to the opposite extreme and start talking like a caveman who know how to use conjunctions. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-totally-suck-at-anything/835426.md?page=5)