BGP QOTD: What do you wish you were good at that you're actually terrible at?

[HammerTime]

Working on cars would be on my list as well. I've done some really basic stuff before (Brakes with some Facetime directions from my father in FL), but overall I'm not very good.

[doomer]

Verbalizing my shortcomings.

[Pura Vida]

Crafty/artsy projects...

[mcpapa]

Home improvement of any kind.

[Run To State]

Figuring out women. Coming up on 34 years of marriage and I still don't have it down, not even remotely close.

[Fear the Nation]

Singing, dancing, playing musical instruments. I can run, jump, throw, catch, shoot, punch, kick but have absolutely no and I mean no ability in the above.

[Science Friction]

Playing any musical instrument...guitar or piano mostly, I'd love to be able to play either.

 

I'm right along with you there. I'd love to play either of those. Plus, the violin and the mandolin.

[Science Friction]

This. 100% this.

 

Glad to know I'm not alone in this. I can paint. That's about it.

[The Professor]

1. To be good a general repair stuff, like cars, carpentry, electrical and plumbing. I wouldn't have to be great, just above average. Ms. Prof has told me the extent of my knowledge of fixing things is screwing in a light bulb and putting gas in the car.

 

2 Number two on my list would be playing guitar and piano.

 

3. Next on list would be golf. It would feel great to be able to hit a drive 300+ and be a scratch golfer. About the only scratching I do at this game is my head after the third straight fat shot!

[spindoc]

I wish I could play piano. Those folks amaze me

[coldweatherfan]

I love music.

 

I can't carry a tune in a bucket.

 

I wish I could sing just a little bit.

[Beechwoodfan]

Directions. I get lost all the time. Have an old car with no GP and can never make it work on my phone. Always good with lefts and rights, but if someone tells me to "head east," you might as well tell me to drive to the moon.

 

Fortunately, I learned long ago to build 15 "lost" minutes into my time so I am rarely late.

 

Husband can drive anywhere, anytime like it is nothing. I am so envious.

[Beechwoodfan]

Speaking my mind, I end up just biting my tongue way more than I probably should.

 

I wish I had that problem! My tongue is bite free, but it comes at a price.

[Jim Schue]

I wish, when I was in 5th grade and I told my folks I wanted to be in "a band," they wouldn't have misunderstood that to mean I wanted to be in "the band" at school. Maybe I'd have gotten a guitar instead of a trombone. Chicks don't much dig the trombone. They dig the guitar. I have the lyrics, and I hear the music to go with them in my head, but I have no way to introduce them to the world. I'm thinking about offering those lyrics up to some local musicians who have eyes toward being famous, for a modest co-write credit for my troubles.

 

That, and the fact that I begged my folks to send me to a school that had football (my HS has only had FB about 10 years, which is waaayy too late for it to help me), but they never did.

 

I'm terrible at talking to women (which I also wish I was better at), and either of those two factors would have gone a long way toward at least making it easier to land women in spite of my mealy-mouthed attempts to find the one.

[All Tell]

I wish I had the talent to sing and dance. I love musicals and would love to be able to do what they do.