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MiriFr

Mon, Apr 20 2020, 7:44 am

Still dont know what "x" is! LOL

No but seriously, I graduated 7 years ago, and I still dont know how to take out a mortgage, pay taxes, or write a check

chanar

Mon, Apr 20 2020, 8:26 am

Mine is so weird. I get mixed up between gold and silver. I got much better at it but sometimes I have to think first!!! 😂

singleagain

Mon, Apr 20 2020, 8:51 am

MiriFr wrote:

Still dont know what "x" is! LOL

No but seriously, I graduated 7 years ago, and I still dont know how to take out a mortgage, pay taxes, or write a check

You just reminded me that I a co-worker once asked me to write out a check for him to give to someone. I told him it was lucky I was honest. Bc I could have written anything. LOL

Also. I love that x thing. Can I tweet that?

cinnamon

Mon, Apr 20 2020, 9:23 am

huva wrote:

If you are righthanded and you wanna know where right is, imagine you are picking up a pen and starting to write something. This always works!
And don't worry. You have nothing to be ashamed of.

I do this!

MiriFr

Mon, Apr 20 2020, 9:23 am

singleagain wrote:

You just reminded me that I a co-worker once asked me to write out a check for him to give to someone. I told him it was lucky I was honest. Bc I could have written anything. LOL

Also. I love that x thing. Can I tweet that?

Lol! I have to google what to fill out every time.

Absolutely! Tweet away🐥

mommy3b2c

Mon, Apr 20 2020, 9:39 am

MiriFr wrote:

Still dont know what "x" is! LOL

No but seriously, I graduated 7 years ago, and I still dont know how to take out a mortgage, pay taxes, or write a check

I can write a check but I know nothing about mortgages and taxes. And I own a house🤦‍♀️

I also don’t know left from right. I need to raise my Shema hand to figure it out.

I also hold a pen wrong. By the time they showed me the right way in first grade it was to late.

singleagain

Mon, Apr 20 2020, 10:17 am

MiriFr wrote:

Lol! I have to google what to fill out every time.

Absolutely! Tweet away🐥

Thanks.

RuralIma

Mon, Apr 20 2020, 10:55 am

mommy3b2c wrote:

I also hold a pen wrong. By the time they showed me the right way in first grade it was to late.

Ugh that brings back 2nd grade memories when I had a teacher who forced all of us to hold our pencils correctly. It was so painful for me, it left a flat spot on my finger from the pencil (now gone but I still remember it.) I still don't consistently hold my pencil correctly and when I do I get flashbacks of her and her classroom. TMI

I still don't know how to figure out the percentage of something except 10% 15% or 20% and I only know those from tipping in restaurants LOL

I feel like I missed the lessons in fractions, decimals, and percentages somewhere along the way and then it was just never addressed again.

I always struggled with grammar, I still can't tell you what a past participle or infinitive is. Practically speaking I know how grammar works I just don't know the name of things beyond the basic - noun, verb, adverb, adjective Can't Believe It

Basically all of geometry beyond the names of shapes and acute, obtuse, and right triangle is completely lost in the ether. I've always struggled with any type of math. I still count on my fingers sometimes but I think that's more of a lack of confidence thing because sometimes I can just say the answer and surprise myself.

I have no idea what colors mix to make different colors lol my 6 year old asked me the other day how to make a color and I had no idea. I remember the lesson in school but I've never needed to do it so it just got pushed aside for other things.

I'm suddenly discovering there are a lot of gaps and forgotten information Im with stupid

challahchallah

Mon, Apr 20 2020, 11:46 am

Mine is analogue clocks. I can do it, but it takes a really embarrassingly long time as I figure it out.

gingertop

Mon, Apr 20 2020, 5:42 pm

huva wrote:

If you are righthanded and you wanna know where right is, imagine you are picking up a pen and starting to write something. This always works!
And don't worry. You have nothing to be ashamed of.

Maybe this is the trick her third grade teacher taught her? Smile

Cheshire cat

Mon, Apr 20 2020, 5:55 pm

gingertop wrote:

Maybe this is the trick her third grade teacher taught her? Smile

Lol! I mentally write the word "we".
The w points west, ie left.
The e points to the east= right.

Convoluted, time consuming... but I still use this trick.

Reading through this thread...omg, I nodded in recognition all the way through. Mortgages are entirely esoteric.
Taxes... hopeless.

And I don't know what the x is either.

Dina2018

Mon, Apr 20 2020, 6:52 pm

applesbananas wrote:

Still break my teeth reading hebrew. This one really kills me bec id say so much more tehillin if I was a fast reader! I have a customer whos a big kriah specialist and I asked her if shed teach me and she said theres nothing to teach, I know how to read- now I just need a ton of practice. But with a house full of kids and a more than full time business it never seems to happen..

there are tehillim with transliteration

flmommy

Mon, Apr 20 2020, 7:22 pm

Roman numerals! I seriously know 1-4 and that’s it!! I am also horrible at geography. I couldn’t fill in a map of the US. It’s very embarrassing. I wish I could be anonymous!

shanie5

Mon, Apr 20 2020, 8:16 pm

for right and left hand. hold your hands up, with pointer finger straight up, and thumbs pointing at each other. WHich hand makes an L? the left hand. L for left. You can do this without raising your hand, and it doesn't have to be embarrassing.
How to do your taxes: Get a recommendation for a good tax guy and let him (or her) do the work!

tp3

Mon, Apr 20 2020, 8:23 pm

applesbananas wrote:

Really don't feel bad. Hashem majorly counts your effort and your intention into your tehillim. Yours is pure. Much higher level than someone who can ramble off countless dozens of kapitlach.

rainbow dash

Mon, Apr 20 2020, 8:25 pm

I finished school in 95 and cant help me kids with math homework cause of stuipd common core and my youngest are 10

petals

Mon, Apr 20 2020, 9:14 pm

I cant figure out how much I have to pay in the store when things are what 20%, 30% ,40%...off.

hodeez

Mon, Apr 20 2020, 9:17 pm

When I need to figure out which directions north, south,east and west point to, I have to mentally recall "Never Eat Sour Watermelons" going clockwise.

Ima Piano

Wed, Apr 22 2020, 11:21 pm

one really kills me bec id say so much more tehillin if I was a fast reader! I

I cannot read Hebrew. I break my teeth saying tehillim. feels good I'm not the only one

icare4eo

Wed, Apr 22 2020, 11:40 pm

For all those of u who have a hard time knowing ure rite and left hands a trick that always helped me is if u lift both your hands up and put 3 fingers down leaving just ure thumb and pointer finger up on ure left hand its gonna look like L L for left. The rite hand is backwards L

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