Me, too! I can’t do the “reach behind”. Gotta scoot, scoot, scoot it around.
Forgive me for being mildly crass, but don’t the boobies get in the way?
Percentages! Where I went to school in 4th grade they taught them in 5th grade. We moved the summer after 4th grade and the new school had already taught it to the 4th graders. I suck at figuring percentages.
Kinda. But I just pick 'em up and move 'em out of the way. 
O.K., people, this is how it’s done. While facing your bra-wearer of choice, hook your right thumb in behind the pad where the eyes are, with the tip of the thumb pointing toward her head.
Place your index finger (first two fingers, if necessary) along the outside of and parallel to the bra strap, pointing toward her right side. Pinch these softly but firmly against the thumb.
Slide the index finger straight along against the thumb. The finger should provide enough friction to catch the outer straps and the hooks should decouple. When you feel them do that, release your index finger and the elastic should encourage the strap to fall away from the body and boobage release can now occur.
TIP FOR NOVICES: at this point you may be tempted to do one of the following:
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[li]yell “SPROING-G-G-G-G-G”[/li][li]do a victory dance of your own devising, or [/li][li]text everyone in your address book, especially if you have a camera phone.[/li][/ul]Experience has shown the results of such to be suboptimal.
If she’s wearing a sports bra, however, you might want to bring along a pair of scissors for the same effect.
I don’t know how to drive a manual transmission. I’ve been shown how, but I’ve never had a stick shift car and never want one, so I don’t know how.
All my youth I was told I had a gift for languages, but I’m not fluent in any language other than English. I can read/speak a little Spanish, German, and French, but I’m not fluent in any of them, and it makes me sad that I didn’t commit myself to learning at least one.
I don’t understand the Coriolis effect. It’s been explained to me by teachers, peers, textbooks and websites and I just don’t get it.
Your examples are consistent with actual usage, but not with explanations I tend to find in text books. I have to work backwards from Wheelock’s discussion of Order of Tenses to figure out what’s actually going on. That is:
Puer pulsātus = The having-been-beaten boy
But the PPP is so often introduced coupled with the present form of ‘to be’, as though that were essential. But once you factor in the sequence of tenses rule for the PPP, then the present form of ‘to be’ is there to indicate that the boy is having-been-beaten as of the present of the main verb or the general time of the narrative. So it might be that what I’m not understanding is not the rule, but the misleading explanation of the rule.
I guess I’m supposed to know what number signify a good blood pressure vs a bad one, but I don’t. People, and not just doctors, will tell me bp numbers without any explanation, and seem to expect me to know if it’s bad or good. I don’t, they’re just friggin numbers to me. And then they tell me what numbers are the dividing line, and I’ll promptly forget it.
Oh, I see. That’s an entirely different construction.
In the phrase amatus sum, the word amatus is not a perfect passive participle. It looks like a perfect passive participle, and it’s the same form as the perfect passive participle, but it does not act like a perfect passive particple.
The phrase amatus sum is, in fact, a compound word, meaning “I was loved.” That is, it is the perfect passive indicative of amo. That’s how the perfect passive is formed: the form of perfect passive participle + the form of the present indicative of “to be”.
Mind you, even though the forms look like other things, the phrase dictus est is neither a participle nor is it present. If it helps, imagine that the two run together, like dictusest, or monitaesumus. They’re one word, when constructed that way.
At the risk of being yet another person trying to explain it to you, here’s my simple way for explaining to patients/families what the numbers mean.
The top number is your heart at work. How high is how hard it is working, at maximum pressure. You don’t want it too high, but above body temperature (in Farenheit degrees) is good… so… 0ver 100… but not much above the hottest recorded temperatures on Earth. 100-140 is reasonable. Over 160 on a regular basis your doc is going to want you to change some things up.
The bottom number is your heart “relaxing” between beats. You want your heart to be able to relax. So something in nice temperature for walking leisurely, or relaxing is good. Over 80 is too much. Over 90 is dangerous. Below 60 is getting a bit chilly, not so good. Below 50 you might feel a bit weak/dizzy (of course some people are normally 100/50 and thats normal for them… this is a rough estimate)
On the other hand I completely suck at lung feild assessments. Partly because my hearing is not great, but almost everything I hear through a stethoscope sounds like Darth Vader to me. I have patients that choke/ get pneumonia fairly often, and when I go to assess I always feel like I’m guessing about what I really hear. I will often put notes in the doctor’s book like “Mr X, congested. Aspirated on thin fluids this morning. T 37.6 P 95, Skin clammy, poor intake/output Resps 26 and shallow. 'Diffuse “noise” through both lung feilds, decreased air entry lower lobe, please assess.” and hope that is adequate. Then my colleauge who LOVES her stethoscope (and also to be fair has a really good Littman) will add things about crackles, wheezes, rales, and all this detail that makes me go 
On the other hand she turns 17 shades of sick when she has to suction patients, me I don’t mind suctioning all that crap out of their mouths or upper airways.
I don’t know how to long divide.
I don’t understand health insurance. Luckily, I haven’t had any serious health issues. I’m sure some day I’ll have to figure it out, but right now the thick pamphlets about it that they hand out at work about our health plan just confuse the hell out of me.
Apparently I’m a complete dolt. Isn’t saying “in other words…” the same as saying “for example…”
I see I’ve been beaten to the punch but I, too, calculate percentages by taking an approximate 10% x 3 to calculate a 30% discount. It’s not accurate but it’s close enough to make most buying decisions.
My bugaboo seems to be national politics. I believe I SHOULD know what’s going on around me but frankly, I have very little desire to learn.
Hey, I was gonna post that!
I also don’t know how to swim or ride a bicycle. I blame overprotective parenting for this. My 8-year-old is currently taking swimming lessons at the local YMCA, and I might do so this summer as well, if I can get over being such a chicken. 
Lucky 13 reminds me: I never learned to ride a bicycle, either. I also can’t do anything else ‘on wheels’, like roller skate or skate board. It’s always a wonder when I can get through the day on two feet, without adding wheels into the occasion!
I did learn to drive a manual tranny car, though, because when I first started dating my hubby, he worked as a private investigator; his car was a stick shift, and often I would go on surveillances with him. He insisted I learn to drive his car, in case he ever needed to follow someone on foot, then needed me to go pick him up. It’s been years, though. I’m pretty sure I could still do it, but it’d take a little getting used to. His current car is one of those trendy things that you can drive either way. When I drive it, though, I drive in ‘auto’ mode!
Thanks for all that, but it’s not that I don’t understand it. It’s that I don’t recall the numbers that divide good and bad, and people for some reason people seem to think I do.
I don’t understand poker. I mean, I get which hands are good and what beats what, but I just…don’t…get when they start talking about The River, or The Big Blind, or any of that.
Also, I am a runner. I have run for at least five years, off and on. I have taught various running courses - but I don’t understand how to do a tempo run. It just eludes me.
Well, no. Try it this way:
“One popular type of pet is a dog i.e. Canis lupus familiaris.”
“One popular type of pet is a dog e.g. a German Shepherd.”
Canis lupus familiaris is another way of saying “dog”.
German Shepherd is an example of a particular kind of dog.
Ditto. Also, I can’t do hair. I’ve worn my hair in a straight bob for years because all I have to do is dry it, brush it, and rub gloss drops in it, and I’m out the door. I don’t know how to braid (well, I do, but I can’t do it), every ponytail I’ve ever attempted looks awful, I have no idea how to style as I dry (it just flies everywhere, and I can’t hold the brush, my hair, and the dryer at once), and even when I do manage a decent style by some sort of miracle, my hair holds it for about five minutes before it looks the same as it always does.