After a character death, the party (needing an in game reason to find a new member) was recruiting potential replacements. The new character steps up and after being asked, "so what can you do well?", he replies "I'm an expert archer."
New PC fronts up to a makeshift archery target and readies his bow, fumbles and breaks his bow and stuns himself badly. The party give each other concerned looks, but giving him the benefit of the doubt, allow another shot. New character readies his restrung bow....and fumbles again. The GM was nice and said there were no other applicants, so the new guy was hired.....but on a very low wage.
Later party was out on a mission and was welcomed by the local chief and offered hospitality and some beer. Knowing that we could be called to action with short notice, the charcter drank moderately, with the exception of the 'new guy'. The party's leader cautioned him about drinking too much but was told in a rather surly way that 'I can handle it.' Soon we heard of local raiders and mounted our horses to ride off. 'New Guy' fumbled his ride roll, fell off the horse and broke his arm.
He was resoundingly admonished for his drinking and fined a weeks pay. Any further claims of ability this character had were looked on with a strong degree of skeptisicm.