# Give me some mundane skills to learn **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 14, 2008, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-some-mundane-skills-to-learn/463569 "2008-09-14T16:39:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 9
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2008, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-some-mundane-skills-to-learn/463569/9 "2008-09-14T19:52:07Z")
Learn to ride a bicycle backwards. Start out on a grass field where if you crash, you won’t be hurt too terribly. Also, there are few obstacles to run into. You sit on the handlebars and start riding as normal, except pedaling backwards. The trick is to turn into the direction that you are falling. It’s absolutely counterintuitive, but so long as you don’t actually try to go in any particular direction, it is quite possible. Once you get the hang of it, you can actually steer sort of, although, I don’t see myself riding on any major thoroughfares. Actually. I’m the only person I know who can do it, but if you take the zen approach, it’s really quite possible. I’m sure most of my coordinated friends could figure it out if they felt there was any reason at all to learn how to do it. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-some-mundane-skills-to-learn/463569)._