Heh, heh - along with the skills to send/receive texts on her cell phone, to view pictures attached to emails, to differentiate between "serving" utensils and "cooking" utensils etc. etc. Marcy's one of the most intelligent people I've ever known, but if she's not really engaged with the subject, forget about getting her to focus enough to learn how to do it!

I'm a data analyst, and she's a medical social worker. For her, the plane of physical existence is only important within the context of psycho-social interactions. She's not techno-phobic either. She could teach me things about how to write Excel macros, but only because she needed to master that skill to implement some longitudinal study she was doing with her patients, and she figured out how to create PDFs with embedded hyperlinks without using Adobe Acrobat. But learning the skill of repairing punctured bicycle tubes is down somewhere on her list of to-do's along with bungee jumping and septic tank cleaning!

She also has pretty serious osteo- and rheumatoid arthritis and a bicycle tube repair would probably be difficult for her.