I was thinking about that when I was dropping my 6 year old off at some hobbies earlier - it’s pretty much expected to have learned how to ride a bicycle before starting school, and it massively expands the area you can go to by yourself. When she went to school by bicycle she can easily make a detour via a shop to spend some pocket money before coming home, while by foot that’d be rather time consuming.
Quite a lot of friends from outside of Europe either can’t ride a bicycle, or were learning it as adult after moving here, though.
edit: the high number of replies mentioning “swimming” made me realize that I had that filed as a basic skill pretty much everybody has - probably due to swimming lessons being a mandatory part of school education here.
The ability open a glass bottle with a utensil instead of using a bottle opener.
I’ve seen someone open beers with his wedding ring
rings, coins, lighters, keys, teeth, eye sockets… Anything is a bottle opener if you are dedicated or drunk enough
I just use my teeth and it horrifys anyone I’m with…
Jokes on them though, because I’m the one with an open beer.
Oh I did that when I had most of my natural teeth. For some reason I don’t have them anymore, I wonder why
Careful man. I’ve seen so many people chip their teeth trying to do it. Only takes 1 mistake 1 time.