What simple thing are you unable to do?
Post your answer in the LEAVE A COMMENT section below. I’m not the boss of you, though. Don’t write anything for all I care! But it’s a simple thing you can do for me.
. . .here are my thoughts.
What simple thing are you unable to do?
In the pharmacy, we verify people’s identity using their date of birth. Probably half of people respond to the request with something to effect of: December 7, 1952. Are these people deliberately being difficult, knowing we type only numbers, not the spelled out words, into the computer? Granted, this is perfectly fine for most people—they’re able to instantly convert December into the number 12, and type it as such. Occasionally, we’re thrown for a slight loop with the military and non-U.S. based method of 7 December 1952—which, to be fair, I fully agree with. Then we have birthdays that fall on the 19th or 20th of a month. It can be slightly confusing to hear March 1952. What day? Ohh, you mean 3/19/1952. Got it. March 2051 can initially sound like 30 years in the future until realizing they mean 03/20/1951. But again, generally not a big deal. Hopefully you’re not like me, though, and can get your brain to quickly translate June and July into 6 and 7, respectively. Any other month—no problem. My brain’s just unable to instantly do the simple conversion for those 2 summer months.
I for the life of me can’t get those long tube industrial lights to stay ok in their metal containers.
Yup, that does seem simple.
I guess I’ll have to watch how I tell the pharmacist my birthday. I’ve done it all the ways you showed. At my age now, (ug),I have trouble getting caps off of bottled water. My hands don’t have any strength anymore. Peoples names escape me, when I know them well. But, I can change a light bulb.
I’m also not to good with names.
Wow no one has responded. Everyone must be perfect. I can’t spell with a damn but we all know how hard the English language could be sometimes so I guess it isn’t that simple. I have two words that should be so simple to know when to use one vs the other, than and then, and bring and take. I always use the wrong one.
I often find myself looking up the same few grammatical things over and over without learning.