Top 10: Things I Find Intimidating

I consider myself a fairly capable, resourceful woman.  I am not ashamed to brag that I’m adept at using chopsticks, comfortable with driving a stick-shift, and somewhat gifted when it comes to my typing speed.  There are, however, a whole host of things that scare the sh*t out of me.

1. LinkedIn.   What is it about LinkedIn that never fails to make me feel awful about myself? I’m pretty sure I could become the first female president and still feel intimidated when I compare my LinkedIn profile to others.  I have not had the guts to fill in my  “specialties,” or “career summary.”  Something about comparing my not-so-impressive professional achievements to my highly accomplished list of contacts is incredibly belittling.
2. Self check-out at the grocery store.   I know, I have a college degree.  But trying to figure out what variety of onions I selected and should therefore properly charge myself for is somehow a daunting task.
3. Making gravy.   Sure, I can roast a chicken, but I find the whole process of making gravy from scratch to be painfully intimidating.  This may be because I once read that a good gravy is the sign of a great cook.  No pressure or anything.
4. Cooking with yeast.  Do I touch it?  Not touch it?  Leave it at room temperature?  Yeast seems endlessly complicated and no one can ever give me a straight answer about how to work with it.
   
5. The StairMaster.  I can’t do it for longer than five minutes.  There, I admitted it.
6. Parallel parking.  Maybe this isn’t a list of things I find intimidating as much as it is a list of things that I am incapable of doing.
7. Fancy sushi restaurants.  I never know what to order.  I love it all; just bring me whatever you recommend.
8. Confronting strangers.  This includes waitresses that mess up my order, jerks that cut the line, and parents of out of control children.
9. Modern art.  As a former student of art history, I really should be more competent about this subject, but I can’t lie: modern art scares the hell out of me.
10. Gwyneth Paltrow.  I’m sorry, but the woman can do everything, and that is not normal.  No one should be able to act, sing, write, speak multiple languages, raise perfect children, and cook flawlessly, all while lithely prancing around to a Tracy Anderson sequence.  So instead of hating her, I worship her.  But I remain frightened of her supernatural abilities to succeed at basically anything.

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 What intimidates you?