I've been randomly combing my brainbox for things I can't handle, and then the solution just fell into place from a completely unexpected vector. There's nothing I would not trust myself with, eventually. My life has been a never-ceasing series of mastery exercises. Every time I master something, I look for something else to investigate, research, try, learn, and eventually master.* There are things that I would have on hand that I would quite deliberately refrain from unpacking until I had read the manual or absorbed a wiki's worth of information**, but nothing I would fear having on hand for lack of my own ability to control myself around it.




(* For modesty's sake, I will not list them here. Let's just say my character sheet in a modern RPG would be pretty damned useful.)

(** I imagine the wiki for the mysterious, seamless, polished, 18" black cube which is impervious to X-rays, is cool to the touch, and bears only the mark of The Rand Corporation would be fascinating.)

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Decrescent Daytripper wrote:

I can't own firearms, despite liking the mechanics and design aspects of guns, hunting, and once in a great while hitting a practice range. I'm too twitchy, too quick to react to strange people being in my home unexpected or the scratching of tree limbs on the roof at 2:14 a.m. to have something quickly and solidly lethal nearby.

One could make the argument that strange people being in your home unexpectedly is kind of the point of having a gun, but I see your point.

I don't claim to be a master of the universe, or even the bits of it I pick up, but I'm fairly responsible and can't really think of anything I don't trust myself with. I can think, however, of many, many things that the laws around me shouldn't trust me with, including but not limited to internet access. It's a matter of perspective. I think I'm quite safe on a torrent site. Paramount Pictures, HBO, and others may disagree.

An advanced understanding of crime scene forensics should probably never be in my repertoire. I'd abuse it, one way or another.

zevrem wrote:

I'm not the jealous type, please do tell.

Sorry, no.

Giovanna wrote:

One could make the argument that strange people being in your home unexpectedly is kind of the point of having a gun, but I see your point. .

I've taken swings with rebar, cut someone's neck with a paint can opener for climbing into bed with me to surprise me, and once threw a hot cup of tea at my brother's face in the middle of the night, so hard the cup shattered and cut his face while the tea burnt his eyes and face. I punched a squirrel for popping out of leaves one evening and scaring me, before I realized it was a poor little squirrel and not I don't know a chestbursting alien or something.

Definitely don't need anything with a trigger.

(Also, possibly seek therapy.)

redRogue wrote:

I can't think of any things that I can't trust myself with, but I do know this: do not ever hand me a baby. Just... no. I can look after younger kids, sure, but as soon as you show me that little bundle of JOY, I'm out..

I'm right there with you on this one.

My friend thinks I shouldn't be entrusted with a boat... I completely disagree, but hey.

I think I shouldn't be entrusted with a child. I'd make a lousy father for now, at least. For similar reasons, I probably shouldn't be entrusted with a dog. I was ok with my cat though, she did a fairly good job of looking after herself as long as I fed her and kept he more or less content. I also shouldn't be entrusted with any substantial amount of alcohol in my house, because I have really really bad impulse control problems, and am likely to keep drinking after I've had two or three glasses if there's a bunch of "free" stuff on hand. This inevitably leads to problems. I've been working on keeping my house more or less alcohol free, but it's kind of annoying since I can't get the wine I like without buying it ahead of time (no store particularly near me sells it, so it just makes practical sense to buy it when I do go shopping at the far-away store that does sell it).

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A smartphone. I would break that thing in a second.

SexingTouga24/7/365 wrote:

Any kinda of unlimted food on demand with chef to cook it; I would eat my self to damn near to death.

I feel your worry.   Cake lover that I am, I've always been wary about looking at those 1/2 price due to near expiry patisserie cakes at the market.  Having to finish like 1000g of real cream + icing + cake/pastry layers in 2 days all by myself is really is too much like flirting with diabetes

I can never drive, so yeah. I shouldn't own a car.

Children.

:shudder:

Oh wow
I'm actually surprised to see that there are others who can not handle a car O_O

I do have a driver's license, but since the exams here are pretty much bribed and the teacher has control over the pedals anyway, and I was completely focused on the task I did pass BUT, errm, during the classes there were multiple times the teacher had to stop the car for me because I hadn't noticed the stop sign nor the red light ==;
I think it has to do with me being unable to focus in a car (I didn't have issues noticing them when driving my bicycle or something)
so after I got that license I never got behind the wheel ever again and that's...10 years ALREADY??? OMFUCKING PAPAYAS!!! I'm getting old

well I like fast cars, I love racing games like Formula 1 (though I do suck at it ahahhaha)
and I do want to be able to drive a motorbyke at some point I love those actually
but my problem is that I can't drive a car, I'm dangerous with one :s