Basicly something that is considered as a "common thing to know" that you never learned.

As for me. I can think of two right off the top of my head.

1. Never learned how to ride a Bicycle. I can ride a Tricycle though.

2. I don't know how to use calculators, or barely. I always do math in my head or (Rarely) on paper/notepad.

What about you?

You and I share your number 1. I think the last time I tried was when I was 13 or so.

I tried like once or twice at a very young age... Then got a scooter.

Never learnt to ride a bicycle. Makes three of us now. We should form a resistance against cycling! Meet me behind the bike shed later...*

*Looks shifty and nervous.

Hmmm...

Never smoked or tried cigarettes. That is quite common.

Never learned to skateboard well. Which is popular where I am from and especially for people who surf(which I do).

Now i am drawing a blank.

I am a horrible swimmer.

I've never successfully been able to use a lighter.
I have tried it twice in my life I think, and failed both times. I then decided never to touch one again...

That's still something, I never learnt to swim and I regret it.

Got it.

I had some really bad asthma attacks when I was younger so the whole idea of cancer in stick delivered via smoke seems like a bad idea.

Same here. Especially swimming. When we go to the pool, I either 'walk' in the water, slide down water slides, or relax on a floaty thing.

I never learned how to swim.

I can't ride a bicycle. I can drive a motorcycle though.

I can't swim.

Damn...I see a lot of people who should not come to Hawai'i's beaches for a swim. I have 'rescued' * many a tourist who COULD swim. I know this is likely unnecessary but the ocean isn't anything like a lake or pool. Just in case any of you guys try to learn to swim in the ocean. I get really paranoid about mainland people who go swimming in the Pacific Ocean. Too many bad experiences.


*They tried to drown me while I tried to save them while I was out surfing. Panicking for one's life is a hell of a thing to experience in another individual.

Ironically, that fits the thread to some degree. I never rescued anyone who was drowning without them attempting to drown me. movies always make it out to be some clean rescue thing.

I did learn to ride a bike, but not until I was 11 or so, which made me the laughing stock of most of my friends, who all seemed to know how by the age of 4. And I wouldn't have learned if a friend of my parents hadn't been aghast that I didn't know how and took it upon herself to teach me. My father was disabled so he couldn't teach me, my mother was too busy/not a physical sort, and my two much older siblings were away in college.

I don't know how to pronounce a lot of words properly ... some of them fairly commonly used. This is because I read such words more than heard people speak them. Even after I know how they're supposed to be pronounced, I still tend to want to say them the way my mind "saw" them, leading me to just avoid using them in spoken conversation, or at least to acknowledge in a humorous fashion that I realize I may not be pronouncing them right.

I also can't ride a bike; I have a lousy sense of balance. I can swim, however.

Joined the swim team when I was in high school. Still don't know how to swim. -___-

I think swimming isn't as common as people make it out to be, sure if you live on/ near a coast it's somewhat natural, but in any sort of mainland/artic like place, swimming is just something the tropical people do in their humid, hot, dusty places

Atleast I think.........

I don't know how to do that fancy card shuffling thing where you bridge two halves of the deck. My dad said he knew how to do that since he was 7.

I can't save money, I spend it all. I can't get me a girlfriend.

I know how to ride a bike and swim. Bow to my awesomeness!

How to factor.

who needs that when you have a motorcyclesubmarine!

Same here, and I never learned to do anything while drunk because well, I've never gotten drunk.

There's actually a lot of things in regards to social interaction that I never learned, even though I get by somehow.
A few other things that I can think of (especially considering my location)-
never learned to shoot a gun
never learned how to drive a car with a manual transmission ( I know how to, I just never had to drive one so I never got any practise)
never learned to ride a horse (I have rode on one though)
never learned how to weld (I do know how to solder)
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That's all that I got for now.


I don't know, I'm totally landlocked and I learned how to swim when I was young, I haven't went swimming for some time, unfortunately.

huh, maybe my theory is wrong? It probably is I live in Florida and I learned to swim in a bathtub.