It's a way for men to feel they're participating in the dinner hour, without feeling inept in front of the stove.

Suddenly you feel inept and confused - often downright stupid.

"Everything I have done with you has turned out wrong; I haven't felt so clumsy and inept in years."

Rafe McIntyre, however, was a person who made it difficult to feel inept.

"Gift wrapping makes most of us feel very inept," he said.

Nobody says, "I'd like to micromanage the household, and make everyone feel inept."

Even the adept say they feel inept in their smart-aleck houses.

To give all this up may initially cause one to feel relatively awkward and inept in company.

They live carefully and quietly, and yet, she said: "I feel inept.

"Dealing with a large city you feel inept," he said.