Competence. Now in convenient book format 30 must-have life skills every capable adult should perfect before turning 30. You’re old enough to own property and have a family, but can you safely open a bottle of champagne? Or change a flat tire? 30 Things Everyone Should Know How to Do Before Turning 30 provides idiot-proof instructions for mastering these and other essential, face-saving, and possibly life-saving skills. You’ll learn how to... wrap a present start a successful fire in a fireplace, at a campsite, and in a barbecue finish a piece of furniture get a raise order wine at a restaurant without getting stiffed parallel park in three breathtakingly beautiful movements dance a “slow dance” without looking like an idiot use a full place setting properly, including chopsticks and Asian soup spoons clean your place in under 45 minutes, when friends, relatives, or prospective lovers are coming by unexpectedly, and soon hold your liquor cure a hangover do the Heimlich Maneuver use a compass change a flat jump start a car open a champagne bottle send a drink to someone’s table cook one “signature meal” whistle with your fingers take good pictures fold a fitted sheet remove common stains sew a button carve turkey, lasagna, and birthday cake hold a baby change a diaper keep a plant alive for more than a year make dogs and cats love you help someone (an older or ill person, a woman you’re trying to impress, your mother) out of a car write superior thank you notes