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

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sashh · 30/01/2020 11:52

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?

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AnnaBegins · 30/01/2020 20:51

My BIL can tell when someone is pregnant even before they know themselves!

I have an almost photographic visual memory. I can tell you where things are on a page e.g. exam revision notes. I can also do the straight/wonky thing mentioned by a couple of PPs, I'm a human spirit level.

My fave superpower though is that I can harmonise to any piece of church music, modern or traditional. I can do it sometimes with normal music, but consistently with Christian music. Any modern worship songs, I'm the one making up a harmony or descant at the back.

SamsMumsCateracts · 30/01/2020 20:57

I can get twelve two year olds to nap at the same time, with no fussing or messing around. Our parents at work often tell us nursery staff that we're magical.

mumsiedarlingrevolta · 30/01/2020 21:00

I can pack anything-car, suitcases etc with huge amounts of things that common sense and physics says will never fit. I just sort of see it like a puzzle and I never fail.
My whole family just come to me with their bag and ask me to do my packing magic with the potential contents.

I have a freakish sense of smell. It is a blessing and a curse.

I tie absolutely perfect bows-on dresses, in hair, on presents and bowties all included

fastliving · 30/01/2020 21:00

I think you win the thread Samsmum !

SamsMumsCateracts · 30/01/2020 21:03

Why thank you, Fastliving. Takes a bow Grin

MAFIL · 30/01/2020 21:10

I can also vomit on demand. I taught myself how to do it as a child to avoid social occasions mainly.

PetCheetah · 30/01/2020 21:11

I have sensory super powers. I can smell all sorts of things like what my husband has drank the second he opens the front door. This isn't a very useful super power because there are lots of bad smells in the world.
I have super hearing so I can hear the electricity sound routers make and a sort of buzzing that most electrical things make. However, I find it really hard to concentrate on conversation in a noisy place because it's like I can hear everything.

wherehavealltheflowersgone · 30/01/2020 21:27

I can tell when a woman is on her period, and when she's very early stages of pregnancy (often before she knows herself).

I can spell every word I hear, even if it's not one I have heard before.

I can tell, to the second, by hearing alone, when the porridge is just about to boil over.

0blio · 30/01/2020 21:29

I can flex my tympanic membrane in my ear to make a rumbling sound. Apparently not many people can do this.

I can do this too (both ears at a time), but didn't know what it was! I don't even know exactly how I do it Confused

Thestral · 30/01/2020 21:30

So many of these are fabulous!

I've got a horrible one which I wish I didn't have. I can look at a classroom full of children (I'm a teacher) and immediately tell which are at risk of harm. Even in fancy MC schools. I just sort of know.

I'd love the one about waking up on demand; I'm perennially late!

INeedNewShoes · 30/01/2020 21:39

I can make shortcrust pastry in 7 minutes.

I very often wake up in the morning half a minute before my alarm or before a text pings on my phone.

That's it for me! I have a friend who can smell pregnancy which I think is an amazing gift!

INeedNewShoes · 30/01/2020 21:41

@SamsMumsCateracts

Are you free just after lunch tomorrow to get my too-busy-to-nap 2 year old to sleep?

Tinty · 30/01/2020 21:50

I dream when people are pregnant. I used to get my haircut every 6 months. The night before I dreamt my hairdresser was pregnant. I told her whilst having my hair cut and she said she was pregnant but hadn’t told anyone as it was early days.

My best friend had three sons and decided no more dc. She came to visit me on my birthday with her youngest son called Jack who was 9 months old. I said to her, I dreamt you had a baby in a pram last night and when I looked in the pram the baby was wearing a dress and Jack toddled over and said my baby sister.

She told me she had taken a test that morning and was about 5 weeks pregnant. She had a girl 😁

SomeHalfHumanCreatureThing · 30/01/2020 21:59

Mind reading abilities. Very useful when driving.

Just generally hyperintuitive. It's bizarre.

50shadesoflunacy · 30/01/2020 22:01

I can tell if a cup of tea has been made milk first offending teamaker must be shot

SomeHalfHumanCreatureThing · 30/01/2020 22:01

Oh and I can also get up seconds before the oven timer beeps. Completely useless superpower.

EggysMom · 30/01/2020 22:09

When I was younger, I was able to find money in coat pockets - generally after said coat had been sat in a wardrobe for months, the weather would change - I'd get a coat out - and there would be money in the pocket! Doesn't happen so much now.

I can predict a fashion trend. I'll go out looking for a specific style of clothing, be unable to find what I want; and the shops will be full of said style 6-12 months later.

And I can put up with a lot of crap at work. A shit lot of crap. But I'm not sure that's a super-power.

PerfectionistProcrastinator · 30/01/2020 22:14

I can flex my tympanic membrane in my ear to make a rumbling sound. Apparently not many people can do this.

I think I can do this too! I’ve been able to do it ever since I was little but never knew how to describe it to people. I didn’t realise it was a muscle but it makes sense as I can only hold it for a short while. I get the rumble noise. I sometimes do it to protect my ears when I know a loud noise is coming.

SomeHalfHumanCreatureThing · 30/01/2020 22:19

I can close my eyes and locate any of our belongings in our house without having to physically look for them. It's rare that this fails. My kids think it's hilarious, but it's SO useful

Smidge001 · 30/01/2020 22:22

@SomeHalfHumanCreatureThing me too ! In fact my husband will call me from Australia (we live on opposite sides of the world half the time) while I'm in England and ask where such and such is. And I am always right!! It's ridiculous. (but I love it. It makes me feel super human)

Echobelly · 30/01/2020 22:25

I can remember where keys, wallets and phones are.

SomeHalfHumanCreatureThing · 30/01/2020 22:27

Ha, brilliant.

My kids: where is this miniscule piece of my gigantic playmobil set?

Me: for some reason it's at the bottom of a multibag of crisps in the big cupboard.

Marcipex · 30/01/2020 22:29

@Oblomov20 me too; photographic ears.

Babies like me and stop crying if I hold them or even speak to them. Only works up to about 9 months tho.

42andcounting · 30/01/2020 22:35

We sell loose fruit and veg by weight where I work. I can tell you the price of bananas (and only bananas) just by looking at them, to the penny, 100% of the time. My coworker "tests me" by holding them up, making me say the price, then weighing them, and is always amazed that I am right.

This is the most specific and useless superpower ever.

LaurieSchafferIsAllBitterNow · 30/01/2020 22:37

I can do the ear thing too, if you do it right you can also turn your hearing off a bit...very helpful for rowdy children!

I can tell if furniture will fit into a house or if things will go in a car, dh is always saying "it won't fit" ....even after all these years....and I am never wrong.
Recently got a five seater Giant L shaped sofa home in a meriva. The guy at the auction said
Auction Guy:are you coming back with a van?
Me: No, I have the car
AG the small black one?
Me: Yes
AG: Nooooo
Me: Watch me

His dad appeared, as if from nowhere cos neither of them believed. To their credit they both helped with the lifting and were both very impressed

I also hear electricity
Can identify a radiostation when I hear music playing...and not just because I recognise the DJ,/programme.... each station has a type of sound iyswim
However this is countered by my inability to tune in a radio....if it is off tune and I touch it, then I act like an aerial, and vice versa, if it is tuned in and I go by or touch it it will crackle....DS1 is the same and the kitchen radio plays up if we are both in there with it. Even on DAB signal.

I know when it is going to thunder and lightning.

Also really good at reading faces/people ...when the children were small I would know what they were planning, when dh is thinking about making a cup of tea I can preempt hims and say "yes please to a cuppa" before he has even moved or asked me.

Also know what people have done if I come into the house after them, it's like I have a little picture in my mind of how the house was when I left and I pick up differences, like a chair pulled out, the kettle turned around, internal doors not how I left them.....I couldn't necessarily tell anyone how it was, but I KNOW when I get back if it is different.