Anyone Else Have Problems Handling Liquids?

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Like when carrying a bowl of soup, not even full to the brim, to my table I always seem to spill like half the soup no matter how slow or careful I walk. I also tend to spill anything I drink out of a cup a lot, and have to change my shirt often.

LOL I read the thread and was like "Of course I do, they're liquid, how am I supposed to hold them in my hands?" I used to a bit, but no, not really any worse than the average person.

Sometimes I do, I chalk it up to my general lack of coordination.

I thought the poster was talking about bladder control or diarrhea!

This morning I got a glass of milk, and got nearly back to my desk with some relief that I didn't spill any on the way. And then I managed to spill some while putting it on the desk. Not as bad as a couple of weeks ago when I dropped a glass full of milk onto the floor. Fortunately, the glass didn't break.

I don't spill much, but it seems hard to avoid spilling something.

I used to walk very slowly as I hold it. Now I have gotten better at it and I try and avoid getting it too full so it won't spill over the top.

I am also bad at carrying liquids - I often spill stuff when walking - so I just don't fill containers up as much as most people do.

I Lso have trouble carrying liquids, especially if it's hot. I tend to shake a lot when I try to hold something steady, so if you get a cup of tea from me, you can expect it to be less full than a typical mug. If I can, I usually put a lid on it.

i used to be bad at carying liquids. now i'm okay exept when i've been drinking and there's a sudden downstep.

Each time i try to paint something it ends up in a huge mess because i manage to spill the paint. With drinks it's horrible; when i'm only a little bit distracted i can't coordinate and spill it over my shirt, therefore i use thermos cups and straws. The small opening in the lid makes it much easier to carry the cup around.

I do too. Sometimes it seems like I didn't even do anything wrong and the liquid just jumped out of the container all by itself.

I just thought about that bowl of soup that I was carrying yesterday. I was concentrating on holding it steady, and I guess I wasn't really paying attention to my surroundings. I kind of forgot that I lived in a world populated by as*holes who don't give a sh*t about you and your soup and will walk into you because YOU weren't looking. I obviously tend to spill it more when I don't pay attention though. I've actually tried to drink multiple times when the cup wasn't in contact with my mouth yet. It sucks when it's coffee.

If I'm carrying more than one liquid at a time (two pints of beer, two cups of coffee, two bowls of soup) I will inevitably focus on one and spill the other.

Not any more, unless I trip over my own feet (happens frequently)

Years of getting myself coffee and having to carry it wherever I was going, not to mention having done so on a ship, has given me decent no-spill-skills ^_^ (As they say in the Navy "you can pick out a chief because he's the one with a mug of coffee on the weather deck who doesn't spill a drop."

This all sounds remarkably familiar. Occasionally you can read my tshirt like a food diary but it's improved over the years. It always reminds me of the film Airplane!

"and that's when I developed my drinking problem"

classic.

For me, it's difficult to handle liquids because they fascinate me. So I do not get focused on what I'm doing. For example, I open the tap water and I get stuck doing nothing because of the flow.

lol you mean alcohol ?