I ALWAYS KNEW THERE WAS NOTHING MY WIFE COULDN'T DO: We've got an interesting group of skills here, as revealed by Humiliation: Round 5. More than half of us can't drive stick, a result which would have been highly unlikely in the era before blogs existed through which we can now find this out, though those here who fell 1-2 short of perfect had r-trilling and cartwheels as their most likely gaps in knowledge.
It's also worth noting that none of the folks who had the most humiliating gaps in knowledge -- Tell time on an analog clock (Racquel), Sharpen a pencil (Maggie), Flossing (Scott), Swallow a pill (Jordan), Shoelaces tied (me), Use a bottle opener (Polarama), and Basic algebra (mcm) -- were generally incompetent at life. True, Robin can dive but not swim; TPE can't ride a bike or do a cartwheel, but call him instead of AAA if you've got a flat in the East Bay; a practicing physician among us can't carve a turkey or chicken ... but none of our high school readers are doing shots yet. Also, a long list of you can touch-type but have to remember which hand is which first, which I think is kinda cool.
The toughest skills to master: Do a cartwheel (Lisased), Carve a turkey/chicken (LF Amy), Change a tire (Kim's neighbor), Ski (Lisa P) and Drive a stick shift (Jake).
Perfect scores were notched by KR, amy (lowercase), Adam C., Deanna, ThrowingWife, Dewb and littleredcar; I won't list the names of those at the other end of the scale. Average was 34, median 35.
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