kyounge1956
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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I've never understood physics or electricity.
Sing or dance. I took ballroom dancing lessons for about 5 years and still never felt confident that I could hear the beat.
What?
Or both. My parents were baffled and had my hearing checked.Well, there is deaf and tone deaf
There are soo many things I could not do even when I was young, and certainly wouldn't try again now. Like,
1) Catch something thrown to me. I would just try to move to avoid getting hit in the face.
2) Maintain my balance on skates, skateboards, skis, or anything that moves underfoot. I amazed myself that I could ride a bicycle when I was around 5.
Ditto on number 2.2) Working out. If I can get my exercise while doing something useful (mowing the lawn, cutting a tree, gardening, etc...), fine. But lifting weights, running on a treadmill or pedaling in place on a stationary bike, no. Too boring for me.
There are soo many things I could not do even when I was young, and certainly wouldn't try again now. Like,
1) Catch something thrown to me. I would just try to move to avoid getting hit in the face.There are more, but those should be enough. I will wait for someone to start a "Can do" thread, then I will post more.
2) Maintain my balance on skates, skateboards, skis, or anything that moves underfoot. I amazed myself that I could ride a bicycle when I was around 5.
3) Singing in tune. No, I am not tone deaf. These are different thangs! One is INPUT, the other is OUTPUT! Got that?
4) Dance. Same as above, I get the rhythm of the music, and can mentally tap my feet to it, but cannot move my body to match. Good thing DW also does not care about dancing.
5) Play the guitar. I have posted about this before. My siblings all took piano lessons, and did reasonably well. I wanted to do something different. Failed miserably.
6) To this day, I play no sports, hence have no interest in any sport of any kind. For physical activities, I go up to my boonies home to move some rocks, or trim some trees.
7) I cannot whistle, but I can chew gum, used to smoke a cigarette, while doing whatever.
Can we exchange birth date/location details? Despite undoubted geographical distance (born in UK, now live 'down-under'), most likely temporal inconsistancies, birth-parent non-convergancies and, for all I know, ethnic and cultural phase-shifts........I feel there is a strong likelihood we may be identical twins!
The reference to being completely non-sports oriented literally raised the hairs on the back of my neck (being particularly relevant since I'm totally bald and have no neck-hairs)
I also never mastered downhill skiiing. I've been "sportsy" all my life but this one eluded me.
Can we exchange birth date/location details? Despite undoubted geographical distance (born in UK, now live 'down-under'), most likely temporal inconsistancies, birth-parent non-convergancies and, for all I know, ethnic and cultural phase-shifts........I feel there is a strong likelihood we may be identical twins!
The reference to being completely non-sports oriented literally raised the hairs on the back of my neck (being particularly relevant since I'm totally bald and have no neck-hairs)
but doing our own things like hiking and biking, but not in competitive events or in groups.
And by the way, I remember you as the Aussie who told me I missed out on not sampling roos meat when I was down there. Pat myself on the back for having some free memory cells left.
That's my problem too. Tried for years. Won prizes for most honest golfer with scores of 3 then 8 then 11 then 4. It was all in the (wild eratic) drives.I cant play golf - the last time I played I shot around 130