What are you f*cking good at that you'd never say but are secretly proud of?

[Iwonder777]

For me, it's putting people at ease.

I've not got the best self esteem but by goodness I'm authentic.

What are you good at - even if you'd never let on!

Working out what people's motivations are and whether they are trustworthy or not.
Researching, processing lots of information and summarising it
Drafting - then again I am a lawyer. It amazes me how so many people lose the ability to understand anything which is vaguely formal and cannot draft a simple analysis.

I have a weird memory for addresses. Used to know where all my tutor group lived from having seen a list only once or twice. Pretty good with birthdays too. Only downside is the rest of my family rely on me the remind them.

Also have a special talent for inadvertently getting people to propose... 8 so far, which is is even more surprising considering I am not particularly pretty and NOBODY even look at me until my 20s.

Finding things. My girls have their own houses, they'll ring up and say 'mum I can't find so and so' and I always know where it is.

Forging signatures

When I am angry, I can swear like a native and be sarcastic in 5 languages. The strange thing is that I can only talk 2 of them fluently.

Researching and problem solving.
And customer service.
I am also very thorough (and slow 😊)

@shosha1 same! But equally I’ve yet to meet a baby I cannot calm and put to sleep. I don’t have your official experience but I’m 47 and been looking after babies and children from I was about 12 (supervised) 14 (unsupervised) until a couple years ago. I’d still happily babysit if it weren’t for my ill health.

The exception of course was own dd, but even then it was only when she was colicky. Once she was past that phase it was fine.

I’ve never seen “slumdog millionaire” but had a few people briefly outline and say I’m the same - I’m a wealth of bizarrely unrelated knowledge of trivia! So I’m good at quizzes (although I’m crap at sport questions). It’s due to reading anything I can get my hands on from an early age and now we have internet I’ll google EVERYTHING, eg was watching steel magnolias earlier and from googling learned:

That it’s based on a true story

That a surprising number of the cast really are southerners

A little about Cajun food and culture.

I love reading and learning.

Packing- army brat then army wife. I can pack a 2 bed house in a few hours and nothing fragile will be at risk and I’ll know where everything is. I can also pack for up to a fortnight in just a hand luggage case.

I may call upon the problem solvers among you under a different username, few things I need sorting.

Remembering numbers - why do they stick?! I can still remember phone numbers from the 80’s, bank account and sort code numbers for BANKS that no longer exist! And account numbers for customers I had in the 90’s! Completely useless info!

I can spot a “wrong ‘un” at 20 paces. Yet to be absolutely proven wrong with the exception of ex who completely changed personality after our split - even his own family feel like they no longer know him.

I can’t put my finger on it at the time but events usually quickly prove me right, although sometimes it’s taken a while.

Definitely don’t advertise that one!

Understanding thick accents / speech impediments.

Can I manipulate this to a swap shop?

I will 'share' my talents -

Winning people over if I need to. I can make people warm to me if I need to.
Understanding thick accents / speech impediments that has allowed me lots of great conversations.
Letting people open up and always hear people's deepest darkest secrets (mostly when I don't want to or haven't tried to!)
I give absolutely incredible advice

Will 'share' for -
Focus at work as I'm a terrible procrastinator
Excel skills / power point skills
Parking
The ability to throw a good outfit together / look polished

Sleeping

Converting houses/barns, I can look at a space and work out how to utilise it better, moving walls/ adding walls just reconfiguring the internal space. Also knowing what will fit where to an exact degree.
The numbers thing too, debit card numbers, NI numbers. Phone numbers.

Puns.
Excel.
Being invisible.
Making Lemon Meringue Pie.
Making bolognese sauce.
Stacking the dishwasher properly.
Speed reading.
Also sarcasm.

Making chips

Taking photos

Pancakes, my GC tell everyone, even the other granny, that I make the best pancakes in the world. It really endeared me to other granny when she offered to make them some and they said no thanks they wanted mine. I come into my own every Shrove Tuesday.

Apparently I give good speeches in front of any audience. I have been told many times and seen people in awe. People have told me they love listening to me. Thing is ...I don't see it myself. I don't know what I am doing or why I am so good.

I have an uncanny knack of beating people at their own game.

But only the first time I try it. The harder I try, the more shit I become

I've done it with backgammon, bowls, darts, badminton, picking up a friend's cat and getting it to purr when apparently it hated being picked up, and getting someone else's African Grey parrot to talk.

Unfortunately, people are not always impressed by being beaten hollow by a complete beginner...

Navigating. I instinctively know where North, South, East and West are. I find sat navs a waste of time.

@TheJoxter I have the same super power we should team up? Although a true IKEA ninja always works alone

Blow jobs
Back stroke
Head stands
And I also have the 'spill' effect as a pp said.
What a talented individual I am!

At finding things😎, especially on the fridge shelves

Being very funny and saying the thing that everyone's thinking, but doesn't want to say.

It's a mixed blessing.

Mine is quick wit and sarcasm too. I know I’m funny even though I wouldn’t say it myself. It’s a great advantage though. I have a lot of negative traits too.

Supporting teenagers and young adults,, although I'm not employed doing it.

Spotting weirdos and baddies. I can sense them a mile away. I've never encountered a wrong 'un that I didn't have reservations about from the very start.