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How to Ice Skate
Ice skate for the first time. Fit and lace rental skates, practice a safe fall off the ice, find your balance at the boards, march, glide, stop with a snowplow, stride, and turn.
How to Use Jumper Cables
Connect jumper cables in the safe order, ground the last clamp away from the battery, start the dead car, remove the cables in reverse, and drive 30 minutes to recharge.
How to Multiply Fractions
Multiply fractions straight across, simplify to lowest terms, cross-cancel first, and handle whole numbers and mixed numbers, then check the answer with a quick estimate.
How to Calculate Tip
Calculate a 15%, 18%, 20%, or 25% restaurant tip in your head from the pre-tax subtotal, check the bill for a gratuity already added, and split the tip in a group.
How to Use a Router Table
Mount a router in a table, set the bit height, fence, and speed, fit the guard and featherboards, and feed right to left in light passes for edge profiles, grooves, and rabbets.
How to Measure a Room for Furniture
Sketch the room, measure the walls, ceiling, and fixed features, check clearances, tape the layout on the floor, and measure the delivery path before you buy furniture.
How to Use a Bidet
Use a standalone bidet, a bidet seat, a handheld sprayer, or a travel bottle. Sit in position, start on low pressure, wash for up to a minute, pat dry, and keep the nozzle clean.
How to Use a Slow Cooker
Use a slow cooker safely. Choose low or high, layer vegetables under the meat, cut the liquid, keep the lid on, and follow the food safety rules for thawing, kidney beans, and leftovers.
How to Use Magnet Links
Open a magnet link in a BitTorrent client, choose the files you want, fix a link stuck on downloading metadata, and know what other peers can see while you download.
How to Use Chopsticks
Hold chopsticks with a fixed bottom stick and a moving top stick, drill the open-close motion, pick up food from marshmallows to noodles and rice, and follow the table manners of Japan, China, and Korea.
How to Use a Compass
Find north, take and follow a bearing, take a bearing from a map, correct it for magnetic declination, and detour around an obstacle with a baseplate compass.
How to Make Friends
Make friends as an adult by joining a weekly group, showing up every week, getting past small talk, and inviting people out, with the research on how many hours it takes.