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Five Things I Should Know How To Do And Can’t

1. Play chess

2. Remember basic details when telling a story

3. Roll my R’s

4. Bake

5. Look interested when I’m not

Five Things I Shouldn’t Know How To Do But Can

1. Read upside down just as well as the right way up

2. Whistle REALLY fucking loud

3. Swim without using my hands

4. Find North using a watch and the sun

5. Play the mandolin

I have this nice image of me doing all of the above at the same time.

I’m reading one of those airplane safety leaflets, trying to get my bearings while I tread water, keeping morale of my fellow ill-fated passengers high by playing the intro to Maggie May while whistling loudly to attract the attention of any nearby ships.

What? It could happen.

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