I seem to .ha.ve a super power - do you have one

[sashh]

So yesterday my carer and I were discussing him getting a kindle. I have 2 working kindles and I suggested he get them both to look at the features / size / weight.

He was convinced they were identical so, to solve the issue he weighed them both.

I was right. One kindle is 3g lighter than the other.

So I seem to have a superpower of noticing when things are slightly lighter/heavier.

What power(s) do you have?

I can smell sugar in hot drinks but I have something of a wolfhound sense of smell anyway.

I can smell the last meal that has been on a plate after it has been through a dishwasher, though only very faintly and not 100 % of the time, especially if it was something spicy or fish.

It's a crap superpower, every smell I smell more strongly and summer generally reeks. It was even worse when I was pregnant, I could smell next doors normally fairly inoffensive dog from across the road and it made me heave.

I'm also phenomenally lucky and should be dead about five times

car crash x2 all five cars involved in the two crashes written off. I came out with one cut above my left eyebrow and one egg on my head

needed resuscitation at birth which was apparently very nearly unsuccessful

stopped breathing in the middle of the night at a few days old and went blue (there goes my lungs being shitty again)

had undiagnosed pre eclampsia with ds and nearly went into seizure

nearly drowned in a closed swimming pool with no life guard at about 10 years old

I'm very obviously just not meant to be dead yet.

Awkward, I am blessed with this. In fact, I am the only one in a house of 6 who can do this. This definitely says more about my relations than me.....

I can tell if a word is misspelt just by looking at it. I think that's reasonably common but I'll take it for now!

I can tell you what time it is without looking. After several years of this the dc just accept my word for it rather than checking their phones ("awe mum you're right AGAIN!!!).

I can tell tiny bits of Playmobil apart from tiny bits of Lego.

If I don’t take my hayfever meds I can sneeze more than anyone I know. Literally inhale, sneeze, inhale, sneeze, and so on... till people around me laugh, then look worried, then annoyed, then weirded out, then really Worried!

I can cook really really fast. I get so bored with cooking I am quick. My parents were there once when I made tea they could t believe it. Dh is the slowest cook in the world. Takes him an hour to make nigellas brownies takes me 12 minutes

I can spot an erroneous double space in copy a mile off.

In a slightly more useful vein, I can also guess currency conversions with an unnerving accuracy.

I'm super strong. Picked up my mum and stepdad the other weekend. They bet I couldn't lift them but I did. Felt kind of like Bruce Willis in Unbreakable🤣

I can programme myself to wake up at a time of choosing, only ever failed me once I don't use alarms at all.

Nope. Not to my knowledge. Unless idleness becomes a superpower. I would be the Shit!

I can remember word for word, verbatim, conversations. Especially important ones. Evidence. At important meetings. I would make a good PI. A lawyer would be able to use me :

Mrs Oblomov , at the meeting of 3rd September my client said A,B,C.

No your honour. At the meeting your client said "C, B and ** possibly A", which has a slightly different connotation.

My mum has the same skill. She used to use this in meetings, in court, as a Social Worker. It used to really un-nerve people.

I too have over sensitive hearing. I can hear something charging, a text beep. This is seriously NOT a superpower advantage though. A life hindrance.

I have an anti superhero power if that helps?? I can get lost anywhere and have quite literally no sense of direction...to absurd levels of excessiveness. I got my colleague and I lost in a care home a couple of weeks ago .

It wasnt even a big one, I've been lost in a car park 4 times since Christmas , and firmly insist everytime that this time is different (it isn't) and I definitely know my way (I don't) and the person should listen to me (they shouldn't)

Dp now refuses to listen to a single word based on any form of navigation.

I can tell if it is going to snow. I'm better than the weather forecast. I can usually tell if its a few random flakes or a few inches as well. I also get a sort of 'feel' for the coming seasons and whether it's likely to be cold/hot/wet etc

We've had so little snow that it's hardly worth it.

I'm the only person in my house that can change a loo roll.

I never get sick, ever, I am impervious to germs. I can also read minds.

I can spot when things are off-centre or wonky, even if by a tiny amount

That's mine too. If we are ever putting shelves up, I can get them centered with just my eyes. DP has to get his laser level out everytime to see if I'm right 😂

I can smell a gas leak....I mean, the very teeniest, tiny gas leak that no-one else can smell, and has the engineer crawling around with the detector thingy until they say, Oh yes, it's here.....

I am also good with colour. I can, inside my head, repaint/recolour anything (eg. the house, the bedroom, the fence) and know exactly how it will look. I used to think everyone could do that but apparently not. I can also look at a colour, go to the DIY shop and get the exact match without having to take a sample with me...

I can look at feet and know their size ( worked as a Saturday girl in shoe shop for years).
I can also guess increments of time accurately e.g 1 min 45 secs / 2 mins 30 / 3 mins 15 secs. This is also a hangover from a previous job. It also means I am shit hot at forwarding through adverts on the Sky Box, I get it bang on the first frame of the program every time. I can also rewind back through what someone says on the tele to exactly the start of the sentence if you couldn't hear what they were saying.

Oh, I've got a good one, I am excellent with voices, I know exactly who someone is by their voice alone. I'm just shit at remembering their names

I can grow hairs on my chin at an amazing rate, either they will reappear after one day of intensive plucking, or, if left for two days, reach almost two cm in length.

I can mimic accents without thinking about it. I can't understand how people can't do it right away because to me it feels so easy to just sort of know how the words should sound in any accent.

I can however also get lost in an empty room and am the clumsiest person in the world. To the point there's no sympathy any more everyone who knows me just braces themselves when I move at all

Also kids and animals instantly take a liking to me even if they are usually grumpy with new people. I'm always smug for a second when a baby stops crying when I hold it. Then spend hours holding it while everyone else can relax. Curse my super hero skills!

I am a super-sleeper. I can sleep absolutely anywhere. It is a very handy skill to have.

I turn all traffic lights red when I am in a hurry. I can also magic slow moving cars who drive in the wrong lane at the same time.

I can make a meal out of seemingly empty food cupboards.