What trivial thing have put off learning for years?

[porteous]

How teenagers work

 

[yello]

It's not trivial really but swimming. I'm really not a strong swimmer. I can breast stroke (fnaar, stay away!) but not for any great distance, and I never learnt to do anything else.

Other than that, I'd like one day to learn to play the piano. Oh, and social skills!

 

[Jane Smart]

Other than that, I'd like one day to learn to play the piano.

I started to learn the piano two years ago and absolutely love it, so don't put it off any longer, go for it

 

[Norm]

Not particularly trivial, but I bought a banjo six years ago: it's been out of its case twice!

Next year I WILL learn to play it!

I've got half a dozen blues harps. I can get a tune out of them but I have never learned to play them.

 

[gbb]

I didnt learn how to adjust and setup a rear derailleur until i was 50
Even then i was dead sceptical about playing about with it...and i'm a maintenance engineer !!!

 

[Over The Hill]

The Coffee menu in Starbucks etc is a complete mystery. Partly I resent having to converse in Italian and ask for a "Grando Mocca" or whatever it is.
I drink black coffee anyway so just ask for that. Sometimes they say back to me "An Americano" which I doubt is aptly named as if most Americanos drank black coffee with no sugar they would not be so fat.
Is it some daft idea that a cup of coffee is worth £2.50 if the ordering of it is in Italian?

 

[jig-sore]

this is actually quite embarrassing but for years i couldnt tell the time on an analog clock !!!!!

ever since i was very young i've had a digital watch (actually got a bit of a strange obsession about needing to have a watch on at all times) so i never looked at the clocks on the walls.

sure i knew how it was done, but i couldn't just glance at a clock and see it instantly, i would have to kinda work it out

 

[ComedyPilot]

[ shuffles about and looks shifty, looking at feet, talking out of the side of his mouth..]

I never learned to do a wolf-whistle with thumb and forefinger, alas.

+1

 

[Arch]

Knitting!

You should. It's really very easy, once you know how.

 

[Fnaar]

25 years ago, my girlfriend at the time bought me a really nice trumpet... (on the same day that her sister tried to give me a tonguey... which was odd). Anyways, I can make it go PARP, but I can't play it. Would really like to learn...

 

[tdr1nka]

The joy of full time employment.

 

[ComedyPilot]

25 years ago, my girlfriend at the time bought me a really nice trumpet... (on the same day that her sister tried to give me a tonguey... which was odd). Anyways, I can make it go PARP, but I can't play it. Would really like to learn...

What can you make go 'parp' the trumpet or her sister?

 

[gavintc]

Making pastry - never learned, I just buy it already prepared.

With regard to the handkerchief - just shove it under the cushions. No one will know whether it is folded or not.

 

[Fnaar]

What can you make go 'parp' the trumpet or her sister?

I often thought I bet I could make her sing... but she was a bit odd. And she was a traffic warden!

 

[Zippy]

What's a tie?

Its a dog breeding term when - oh never mind

OMG is that what they mean when they say "you're finally tying the knot?"