What do you wish you could do better?

[Tango589]

Is there anything in life you wish you were better at?

I wish I was better at singing. As much as I enjoy belting out a tune in the shower, I do have the singing voice of a goose farting in the fog. I would love to have a rich baritone voice that I could break out without a moments shame, like George Ezra has.

[Eichhörnchen]

Keeping hold of my cash...

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Eichhornchen

Keeping hold of my cash...

A totally unrealistic oxymoronic wish-incompatible with your bli$$ful matrimonial $tatu$! $WMBO$ rule our pur$e $tring$ BBY! JUST LEAVE YOUR WALLET ON THE BEDSTEAD LUCKY BOY!

[Eichhörnchen]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

$WMBO$ rule our pur$e $tring$ BBY!

You are not wrong. But I am able, consequently, to plead poverty when the need arises: such as when someone's rattling a collecting tin in my face, a waitress wants tipping or the parking meter needs feeding...

[Jeff-Groves]

Wish I was better at picking the Power-Ball or Mega-Millions numbers.

[Eichhörnchen]

I just sink if I stop moving. I've tried and tried, but I can only swim underwater.

[Tango589]

Originally Posted by Eichhornchen

I just sink if I stop moving. I've tried and tried, but I can only swim underwater.

I think most people sink if they stop moving. I've never mastered the 'floating nonchalantly on your back' technique. As Dorey said in Finding Nemo 'Just keep swimming'.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Jeff-Groves

Wish I was better at picking the Power-Ball or Mega-Millions numbers.

You and me both Jeff.

[Platapus]

I wish I were better at learning foreign languages. I am quite the dunder-head when it comes to language. I have attended civilian and government language schools to no avail.

[Eichhörnchen]

(I wouldn't call a bloke who awards "Kudos on the use of the proper verb" a dunder-head...)

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Tango589

I think most people sink if they stop moving. I've never mastered the 'floating nonchalantly on your back' technique. As Dorey said in Finding Nemo 'Just keep swimming'.

Originally Posted by Eichhornchen

I just sink if I stop moving. I've tried and tried, but I can only swim underwater.

'Clothes make the man', my man! I tend to be comfortable in the water; even scuba at night off Monterey and still have my WSI certification for summercamp teaching...somewhere. Neoprene swim shorts is just the thing to achieve the modicum of buoyancy you're lacking amidships with a light hands (fingers straight-minifins) sculling on your back to avoid yaw and pitch issues..I first learned to swim underwater and came to regard it as the most efficient method with hands/arms always at side-straight leg kick; never 'frog style'- for efficiency...then kicked up to wearing fins and a tank to the whole technique with no problems for thirty years...
http://www.racezone3.com/neoprene-buoyancy-shorts.html

[Sailor Steve]

I wish I had more confidence, and was better at marketing myself. I have several skills, but none of them has ever made me any money to speak of.

[Eichhörnchen]

@ Aktung: those kecks of yours look rather expensive, though I'm sure my wife would like to see me in them. I'm afraid this is what I usually end up using:

[Rockstar]

Originally Posted by Tango589

Is there anything in life you wish you were better at?

Hold my liquor better. As I get older it seems it takes less and less before I find myself slurring my words and drooling on myself.

[Eichhörnchen]

"Give it a bit longer an' you won't need the booze at all to do that, Old Son..."