What I Still Don’t Know
I liked this list of 25 things the writer still doesn’t know at 50. There are many many many more things we don’t know, but we’re also not expected to know them.
So this list would be all of the things you should know by 50, but maybe you don’t. I felt pretty solid on 14 of her 25 things (#s 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18).
I also didn’t know 11 of her 25 things (#s 3, 4, 5 — though I would argue that these three things are not things most adults know how to do — 13, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, and 25).
I would add to the list tying my shoes. Justine asked me recently if I had ever admitted this on my blog because she didn’t know this about me, and I found it in a post from 2016.
Checking the air pressure in my tires and adding air.
Doing any type of maintenance or checking on my car. I cannot do simple car tasks.
Buy or sell stocks.
Fly without drugs.
Kill a cricket. (As in, I need someone to do the dirty deed for me.)
Turn off the water or electricity in the house.
That takes us up to 18 things I don’t know at 50. Again, many many many things I don’t know, but these seem like common ones I should know.
What is on your list?
2 comments
Buying and selling stocks is trivial. You just have to have like a Vanguard account and a bank account and then it’s a matter of pressing some buttons.
I’m not sure why you would need to if someone else is taking care of your retirement accounts. I suppose at some point you may need to know how to sell them, but that will again just be a couple of easy button presses after you’ve logged in. You’ll figure it out when you need to do it if you need to.
Also not sure why anyone would need to kill a cricket– catch one and let it outside sure (I prefer the glass + paper method), but they’re harmless AFAIK. That said, we have five cats and crickets don’t last long enough to be captured and released, so it’s been a long while since I’ve had to liberate one.
Ha. I started a series “100 Things I Know” as I’d seen someone else do it. But I only got to 20 or 30 before all hell broke loose this year. I need to revisit my list.
I am with you on #4, 5 but have to add 6. (We didn’t have enough level concrete on our farm to learn, even though my sister had a pair of roller skates.)
I can do #13 but not consistently.
I converted #19 to sports that are familiar here in NZ, and I know them.
I definitely can’t do #23 well enough, although I have become better at it. (And discovered I can teach myself not to do this.)
#24 because I’m a Libra too. Although I am pretty good at being balanced too, so maybe that one is 50-50.
#25. It’s one of those things I don’t think we get much choice about knowing or not knowing how to do it.