I can’t whistle so always called my kids with a trill sound (like a loud Spanish RR, not Arabic ululation) and it is also my recall sound for the dogs. But I really can’t whistle. Can sort of make a sound but it’s laughably mockably wimpy.
Can’t catch at all either, can throw reasonably accurately most of the time but an object coming at me never goes where my hands think it should. I am shamed by my penultimate daughter, who despite nearsightedness worse even than mine was, and a strong drive to be non-athletic, can pluck anything out of the air, has both lighting fast reflexes and intuitive hand eye coordination. But it doesn’t really affect me other than occasional embarrassment - I just pick whatever it is up off the floor after it hits me.
This is really funny considering there’s a Bob’s Burgers episode about exactly that. The wife, Linda can roll her Rs but can’t whistle, while the husband, Bob can whistle but can’t roll his Rs. It’s a whole plot.
My oldest kid is 30 now, so this precedes the show by quite a few years, it’s pretty funny but it did help when they were in a pack of loud kids. And yeah both my ex and my husband can whistle LOUDLY, but I cannot at all.
I can’t whistle so always called my kids with a trill sound (like a loud Spanish RR, not Arabic ululation) and it is also my recall sound for the dogs. But I really can’t whistle. Can sort of make a sound but it’s laughably mockably wimpy.
Can’t catch at all either, can throw reasonably accurately most of the time but an object coming at me never goes where my hands think it should. I am shamed by my penultimate daughter, who despite nearsightedness worse even than mine was, and a strong drive to be non-athletic, can pluck anything out of the air, has both lighting fast reflexes and intuitive hand eye coordination. But it doesn’t really affect me other than occasional embarrassment - I just pick whatever it is up off the floor after it hits me.
This is really funny considering there’s a Bob’s Burgers episode about exactly that. The wife, Linda can roll her Rs but can’t whistle, while the husband, Bob can whistle but can’t roll his Rs. It’s a whole plot.
My oldest kid is 30 now, so this precedes the show by quite a few years, it’s pretty funny but it did help when they were in a pack of loud kids. And yeah both my ex and my husband can whistle LOUDLY, but I cannot at all.
You and my dog sound like you’d have a lot in common. He lets treats bounce off his head and then just eats them off the ground after.