30 Adults Share Basic Life Skills That They Failed To Learn

why is everyone getting down votes for saying me too??

coming from a big immigrant italian family, i have the worst time scaling down recipes. everything was made to feed the whole clan. making food for like 2 people is insanely difficult for me.

For some reason 1999 is still 10years ago

Sometimes I think I've nailed this adulting lark and am now a fully formed member of the human race. Then I try talking to a stranger and realise all I've done is cocoon myself in friends who don't mind talking about D&D 24/7

The + sign has a bump on it. The positive side of the battery is also the one with the bump. The - sign is flat. The negative end of a battery is flat as well. You're welcome!

I once directed my friend in a car and we nearly ended up in another country....

Me too!!! I feel so dumb some times. Living in South Africa I speak Afrikaans. I call kids "pampoen" which means pumpkin. Or "piesang" which means banana. I get away with it because the kids in my karate dojo thinks it is funny. don't think adults would thinks it's funny.

Pretty sure that's normal

Yes that is the proper and best way to shuffle cards!

are you my wife? because this sounded just like her :-)

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Years ago my sister and I were taking a walk in our neighborhood and someone asked for directions to the local library. After he drove off, we realized that the directions we gave were totally wrong. We joke that to this day, you can see a rusty old car being driven by a skeleton...still looking for that library.

The trick is to inhale with your mouth when out of water, slowly exhale through your nose while in the water. You can help yourself with humming while in the water.

yup!! you are not alone

Me too!! It's the side effect of my mother's friend terrifying me as a kid (for "fun"), by telling me that she saw a kid get their foot caught in the escalator & had it chewed off. She told me every time we went to go on an escalator. It's now an ingrained instinct, despite me logically knowing it's nonsense.

Fitted sheets are supposed to be folded? I just wad them up in a ball and stuff them in the linen closet.

Riding a bike is not easy. Unlike most people I know, I'll admit, I learnt it as a young adult. And I'm so grateful for it, such a useful skill to have.

LOL!!! I have no sense of direction. Will get lost in my own house ;-/, but time and distance... no one can beat me at that.

At least they have a calm home environment

I cannot say 'similarly'. It always comes out as similarily, similaly, similarlarily etc.

Turn it on

I have a problem with converting the 24h clock to 12h. Keep messing up 5 o'clock (1700h) and 7 o'clock

I had an instructor like that, I dumped him and found a new one. Passed my test first time.

I too can't whistle - sounds like an angry cat if I try!

I've never learned how, but I have good memories of my grandfather whistling for us kids.

I actually whistled as a baby. Confused the hell out of everyone, and nobody believed my mom that I was the one doing it xD

I want to learn to whistle so bad. I've tried every tutorial but still can't make a real whistle.

I can't whistle.

Some people have genetics and are missing a piece of their throat to be able to whistle like me you can whistle onwards and it works though

I can't whistle.. Neither can my mother, perhaps it's hereditary?

i cant whistle either...actually, i can, but only a short little one that you would use to call a dog

So how can you not blow up balloon? Hold it and blow. Right?

I can whistle, but I can’t breathing out, but I can while breathing in

can blow balloons,but can't try them.Also, the best whistler in the family, but can't whistler like you would to a dog

I can't whistle either. My husband can whistle and you can hear it a mile away. I have tried and tried...no luck

I can't whistle either.

Whenever I try to whistle there comes saliva out my mouth xD

Please join my club.

Just read everyone's can't do it and mark down something like, " me " like I have been doing.

How to wrap a present: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNqc2yWZztE

Me neither, got no idea how to whistle on my fingers.

Haha, that's the opposite to my dad. He can ONLY float. Like, on his back with both his knees AND shoulders above the water. We've often joked that he has hollow bones, like a bird.

Yes, "deductible" sounds like something you *don't* have to pay. And "premium" sounds like something good, but the whole thing is doubly confusing: pay a higher premium (oh no!) to get a lower monthly (oh...kay?). It's like being asked to choose the way you would like to get screwed.

Now this, I learned at middle school. One of the positives of having school uniforms in the UK!

I just think to myself "Write" and I automatically know which hand is right =D

Go online and order an electric egg boiler. It does the work for you.

And that's a benefit of growing up in the Netherlands: everyone gets swimming lessons. Some of us more than others, but we all do when we're little. Too much water around not to... :P

Same. Except, the author of this post seems to be ropeskipping better than me. My foot always gets caught.

Have you tried this way? 25% off is 25 cents off every dollar. 40% = 40 cents off.

Is he left handed maybe? My eldest son is a lefty and for the love of every thing nice, it is utter torture to watch him trying to open a can either manually or with an electric opener. It is just impossible.

I can throw a frisbee just fine. I mean, it's not a floating disc, more a shortly-airborne chunk of plastic, but I can throw it!

I am totally with you on the flat iron thing. SORCERY!

Using thumb, index, and middle finger is actually quite common around the world.

I got in the habit of telling people "drivers side turn" or "passengers side turn" haha