I cannot braid hair. I am a teenage girl, with longish, perfect hair for braiding. I do not know how. I never have known. Ever.
Oh, and I used to do the bunny ears way of shoe tying. I don’t know why I switched.
Just as an aside, after a few years of dealing craps, I had a hard time with blackjack because I couldn’t add up a string of numbers that came to a total of more than twelve quickly, and I never developed the ability to memorize the totals of players’ hands. It’s actually something of a joke in the casino business where more and more, dealers are expected to deal multiple games. “She’s a craps dealer, she only knows how to count to twelve!!!” I could do some pretty amazingly complex math in my head from having to deal with multiple bets and leave losing bets up out of the total of the winnings, but I could never add a column of numbers in my head.
I don’t know how to drive a car.
I can’t whistle
I make my eight’s backwards - always have
The nice thing about busses is that a lot of people, even adults, only need them occasionally and so you can be 50 and setting out for your first bus ride. Transit authority folks are usually very nice about giving people the information that they need, especially if they work on an information phone line or at an information center. There are also frequently printed schedules that you can carry with you so that you will always know where and when you can catch the bus that will take you to your home, your job, or wherever you’d like to be.
White rice is fairly easy – put it in a pot, and cover it with water to the point that the water reaches the first knuckle on your index finger when you rest your fingertip on the top of the rice. Place on medium heat, cook covered until all the water is absorbed. (If there are little “pits” in the surface of the rice, it’s well done. Get it off the heat before it scorches on the bottom.)
Take a logical approach to the topic. The purpose of putting food into boiling water is to transfer some of that water into the food to hydrate it, soften it and make it hot. In order to do that there needs to be sufficient water, and to judge the time, you just test the doneness of the food.
But if you read the side of a box of pasta or even a bag of rice (notwithstanding the directions I just gave) it will tell you how much water you should use for the portion of food that you want to cook. Just about anything that you’re going to boil comes with directions that are simple to follow, anyway. (Boiling is pretty limited to pasta, rice and eggs, anyway.)
:eek: You think fast food is cheap? I can feed my entire family two meals for what you pay for one “value” meal at a fast food place, and there will be less fat, cholesteral, sodium, excess sugar, preservatives and other unhealthy crap in all the food I cook for those two meals than you get in one bag full of burgers and fries. If you’re dropping $10 a day on fast food, that’s $300 a month for one person, I don’t spend that much to feed two adults and two children.
By the by, there’s no reason to add oil to your pasta water. It just floats on the top. (Oil and water don’t mix.) And if it does coat the pasta, it makes the cooking process longer because it prevents the pasta from absorbing the water. Pasta water should be plentiful, rapidly boiling and as salty as the Mediterranean, and that’s it.
My mother was a secretary in an elementary school for many years (she retired about 7 or 8 years ago). They hadn’t upgraded the whole phone system, and one of the phones for the kids to use to call home to tell Mom they forgot their lunch or whatever was a rotary phone.
My mother said it was really funny to watch the kids come in and try to use this old rotary phone - they just had no idea how to use it. Some kids would stick their fingers in the holes and push down, thinking that’s how it worked.
She said the worst thing was when they said they couldn’t do it; it was “too hard” or it “hurt their fingers” and could she dial for them. :rolleyes:
Untrue. Your angel hair will be way overdone in 10 minutes. But most Americans seem to eat overcooked pasta a lot.
To this day I don’t know how to forward a phone call to somebody else at the office. I’ll bet there are a lot of 16-year old temps in the world who know this skill on 4 different systems, but I just can’t figure it out. And I was clueless on fax machines for awhile too, but when would ever encounter the stupid thing before? School? Your job at Pizza Hut?
I can’t skate - ice or roller - or use roller-blades. I’m gonna learn soon, though. It looks like fun.
I had to resort to the internet to figure out how long to boil an egg. They’re enclosed in those shell-thingies - how do you know when they’re cooked? Of course I’ve forgotten now, so I’d have to look it up again. :dubious:
There was a Saturday Night Live skit once where Martin Short was a soldier trapped in a house with others. He was the only one who could walk and there was a radio upstairs they needed to use to save themselves. Problem was, he grew up in a “plains state” and had never learned how to go up stairs. It was really funny because he had so much anxiety about it, and then he failed miserably as he valliantly tried to do it.
I knew people who couldn’t dive (like another poster said). This is weird. Just fall headfirst, dude. It’s water, not cement.
The first time I ever saw “bunny ears” was my college roommate. I tried it a couple times and failed, so I guess I don’t know to do it.
I don’t think that I, technically, know how to “yahoo”.
I always had a problem with cartwheels, too.
Years ago, when I decided to start bringing my lunch to work some days, instead of always going out to eat, I had to ask a friend how to microwave leftover pasta. She asked me if it was a trick question, but I really didn’t know. I always had cooked only enough pasta for a single meal.
I barely can whistle with just my lips.
In no way shape or form can I whistle though my fingers, you know, the way guys hail cabs in old movies. What is the secret to doing that, anyway?
Oh, I’m sorry, this is the descend–you wanted the lift. Next car over.
You know how to whistle, don’t you? Just put your lips together and blow.
But for myself, I’ve never ever successfully balanced a checkbook. I just keep enough money in my account to cover expenses, and take a look at my balance pretty regularly.
Daniel
I don’t know how to mop.
This technique is called wet/dry mopping.
You will need:
a mop
a bucket with a wringer
cleaning product
water
Ideally, begin by sweeping surface to be mopped. Fill bucket with water. Add cleaning product. Wet mop in water. Push mop LIGHTLY in wringer, only taking out a small bit of water. Using a figure-8 motion, drag mop over surface. Let the mop head do the work, unless there is a crusty patch or something, then scrub. Once the entire surface is wet, dip the mop in the water again and then wring it out completely. Mop surface until all the excess water is picked up. When the mop head is saturated, dip it in the water again, and wring it out once more. The mop will wring out more effectively if it is completely wet. Wait until dry, then do one last sweep with a broom. Ta-da!
FTR, I tie my shoes with one loop, I can’t drive and I am terrible at using a camera. I just can’t do it.
I agree. I work at a newspaper in a large city. The photo editor makes photo assignments to photographers, choses photos, using the photo editing and news layout software and so on, but does not go out on assignment and take photos. They’d have a reporter take a photo before they’d send the photo editor.
I agree. I work at a newspaper in a large city. The photo editor makes photo assignments to photographers, chooses photos, using the photo editing and news layout software and so on, but does not go out on assignment and take photos. They’d have a reporter take a photo before they’d send the photo editor.
I agree. I work at a newspaper in a large city. The photo editor makes photo assignments to photographers, chooses photos, using the photo editing and news layout software and so on, but does not go out on assignment and take photos. They’d have a reporter take a photo before they’d send the photo editor.
I’d forgotten about the phone. People need to call me directly - if I don’t like someone, I’ll give them the office phone number (rather than my phone number) because then, the office manager will call me, and say “Amarinth, you have a call from so-and-so.” And I’ll reply “thanks.” And then, I’ll promptly hang up on so-and-so. Or possibly put them on hold. I think I transfered one back to office manager who transfered him back to me, when I hung up on him. Every so often, a call gets through that way…but I’m not sure how.
I don’t mean to, I just don’t know how to transfer people, put them on hold, or accept a transfer, I know the phone was designed to do those things, I just never learned how.
I never heard about the 2-loop method before now. I googled, and it’s just forming a loop with each end of the lace, then tying the 2 loops together. Fascinating.
I learned the one-loop method when I was a kid, but it never came out quite correctly - the end result was that the final 2 loops would always lay along the length of the shoe, not across it. I remember my mother being puzzled as to why this happened.
I didn’t figure it out until I was in my 20s. (Additional info - later the wife of a friend mentioned the same problem and I was able to give her my solution.)
(For any other sufferers here, this is what the problem was. You know the point where you wrap the lace around the first loop and then create the second loop? In my case I would wrap the lace over the loop moving away from me. The fix was to wrap the lace over the loop moving towards me. After you’ve formed the knot, pull out the loops and look at the remaining know. In the correct way, you’ll see a symmetrical square knot. In the wrong way, you’ll see an asymmetrical granny knot.)
I can whistle with my lips but only by sucking air in. I can’t whistle by blowing out, for some reason.
I also can’t whistle with my fingers. I’ve always wanted to, because it seems so cool. My best friend from high school can, and can make this insanely high-pitched ear-splitting whistle by putting her fingers in her mouth. She’s tried many times to teach me, but it’s hopeless.
And if you have an old-fashioned deck mop like this one, you can mop floors like we did in the Navy. As you are about to slap the wet mop on the floor, hold it vertically with both hands at arm’s length, get it spinning kind of fast, and let it plop down on the floor. The strings will be all splayed out in a proper Navy deck mopping fashion.
(the rest of the steps are pretty much the same).