# Things that you can't do well or at all, but love doing anyway. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 28, 2019, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-you-cant-do-well-or-at-all-but-love-doing-anyway/830326 "2019-02-28T03:03:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2019, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-you-cant-do-well-or-at-all-but-love-doing-anyway/830326/61 "2019-03-02T22:10:18Z")
I was a bad enough singer that I was politely discouraged from joining a grade three choir. I’m guessing you have to be pretty bad for that to happen. But I like to sing, know the words to thousands of songs, and am a menace in a karaoke bar after a couple beers (although I do not often go to karaoke bars). ---
**Author:** ![Patx2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/73ab20/32.png) [@Patx2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patx2)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2019, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-you-cant-do-well-or-at-all-but-love-doing-anyway/830326/62 "2019-03-03T01:08:19Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Another music lover who cannot sing, but does it anyway. When I was holding my two year old niece in my lap while singing “Happy Birthday,” she turned to me and said “Shut up.” > > I also love to walk, but have no sense of direction. I sometimes have to ask people in m hometown how to get where I’m going. This is me on both counts. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2019, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-you-cant-do-well-or-at-all-but-love-doing-anyway/830326/63 "2019-03-03T19:27:08Z")
Playing video games. On a scale of 1 to ten with 1 being someone who never played video games before I’d probably be a 2 or possibly a 3 if only because of shear stubbornness. ---
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2019, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-you-cant-do-well-or-at-all-but-love-doing-anyway/830326/64 "2019-03-03T20:00:47Z")
Shooting, Got very good and as I age, i’m going down hill fast but I still love to do it. Play Bridge, do pretty good but Dad and one sister I will never be close to them. Soccer. I went the referee route after I found I could not play and the kids leagues needed Referee’s. Was too close to ‘old’ when I started so I never got past ‘State One’. Photography, I suck but I still do it because I like it. I do love digital cameras because that made it affordable for me. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2019, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-you-cant-do-well-or-at-all-but-love-doing-anyway/830326/65 "2019-03-05T19:19:38Z")
Play music - electric guitar, bass, drums. I own a guitar and a bass and sold my drums. I’ve taken lessons on all three. I was over the moon when I learned to play Alice Cooper’s “Gimme” and Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” on guitar well enough to play along with the class band or the music video. But that only lasted as long as I practiced, and I always seemed to find something else to do rather than practice. Now the guitar and bass sit in their cases in my room and I haven’t touched them in years. _le sigh…_ ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2019, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-you-cant-do-well-or-at-all-but-love-doing-anyway/830326/66 "2019-03-05T19:48:38Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > I’m another terrible singer who likes to sing. I’ve just resigned myself to doing it where others can’t hear me. How bad? I’ll put it this way - at one point the neighbors were _relieved_ when I switched to bagpipes. Got you beat! When I sing, _my own wife and son_ tell me to shut up. :eek: 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-you-cant-do-well-or-at-all-but-love-doing-anyway/830326.md?page=3)