Do you have a pointless superpower?

[GnomeDePlume]

You know, that thing you can do which others cant but which is surprisingly useless.

Mine: I tie shoelaces upside down which is great if I am tying someone else's shoelaces but means my own are upside down (ie loose ends at the top of the knot). This was a useful skill when DCs were little but now they are in their 20s and dont need me tying their shoelaces.

DH: putting up coving - he can just see all the cuts he needs to make so there is almost no wastage. The house is perfectly coved. We dont redecorate often enough for him to use this skill.

Anyone else have a pointless superpower?

[GnomeDePlume]

I can read really fast but have zero recall. This means that I can read lightweight novels at an alarming rate and then re-read them a while later. DH is dyslexic, reading is hard work for him so as he has to take his time he reads far better literature than me.

This is not a superpower.

[legalseagull]

I'm good at remembering numbers.

I went camping in Wales in 1992. I can still remember the toilet code.

It may not amount to a superpower, but at least I won't piss myself

[monkeyonthetable]

I have a very useless one. I can't forget a face. So I end up doing weird things like accosting people in shops and reminding them we met at a party in Birmingham eight years ago. I've learned not to do this now. It freaks people out.

[legalseagull]

Thanks to this thread I now know I can click my eardrums on demand too haha. Now what do I do with this knowledge...

[monkeyonthetable]

Mind you, I once met someone with the same superpower. We glanced at each other and within three minutes both worked out we'd done a weekend vocal workshop together thirty years earlier.

[babyguffingtonstrikesagain]

I can move my baby toes independently from the rest of my toes.

[Bargebill19]

Apparel I can return home the exact minute my DH has boiled the kettle to make a brew. Without him phoning me.
I freaked home out a couple of years ago by accurately telling the time without having a watch or clock within sight. I was always accurate to within 5 mins.

[barskits]

I can read upside-down. Used to come in handy when I worked as a cashier in a bank.

Like another pp I also have a sixth sense about when there's something indefinable that's about to go wrong with a car. Our neighbour is a mechanic, and he's been unnerved by it a couple of times when my car has been going in for a service and I've told him that something is not quite right. He drives it to his garage and can't tell. Then he has a look under the bonnet and bobs your uncle.

[FunTimes2020]

I can inhale a box of chocolates in under an hour

[Chicchicchicchiclana]

I remember everyone's birthdays and their husband's birthdays and their children's birthdays.

[Chicchicchicchiclana]

My friends down the road are 16th Feb, 8th March, 25th May and 10th September. There! Proved it!

[QuestionableMouse]

@KoalaKoalaPanda

Since having a baby my body has become an internal clock. I always know roughly what time it is (within about 5-10 min range) at any point of the day/night.

I'm the same (well, apart from the baby.) Comes in handy.

[minipie]

I’m good at spelling. Useless now there is spellcheck.

I can taste mould growing in food before anyone else can. This is bad because I can’t enjoy food which is probably still perfectly ok and everyone else is enjoying.

I can't forget a face. So I end up doing weird things like accosting people in shops and reminding them we met at a party in Birmingham eight years ago. I've learned not to do this now. It freaks people out.. Also have this. Although I can never remember their name. So not very useful.

Also good at untangling but I think that’s sheer determination rather than a special talent.

[chuppachupchup]

I can see words in a word search pretty much instantly,they jump out at me 🤣

[Devlesko]

I'm psychic, my family know as they experience it.
I don't tell anyone irl though, as they disbelieve or think you are weird/crazy.

[monkeyonthetable]

@Chicchicchicchiclana - I would love to have that superpower. I am so bad with dates DH used to tease me because I could never remember our wedding anniversary.

[YouUnlockedTheGateAnd]

Im simple to a PP, I am instantly always averagely OK at any skill I try.

I’ve been accused many times of not being a beginner at stuff, when I go to ‘have a go sessions’ but you name it, windsurfing, archery, ice skating, i can literally stand up and do it right there. Then, yep with the odd rare exception just don’t get any

I can also read very quickly. Not a super power at school. I just used to get accused of lying when I said I’d read something.

[letsgomaths]

My feet don’t sweat at all. Other parts of me do, just not my feet. I can wear trainers all day (without socks) and they are odourless. And I do have a perfectly functioning sense of smell!

[SunshineCake]

I can tell my looking at clothes in the drier if they are still wet or fully dry. Completely pointless, useless but saves me 2.5 seconds from opening the door.

[JumpingJamboree]

I'm a human ruler. I just seem to be able to measure things with my eyes and know how long things are.

[TheGirlWhoLived]

I’m really good at catching, abnormally supernaturally good. I have no other sporting skills bar catching things.

I guess it must be a reflex of some sort

[spiderlight]

I can read super fast as well. It's handy when watching anything subtitled - I just have to flock my eyes down to the bottom of the screen for a second and read the entire thing at a gulp, as it were.

I can tell by smell if a dog's got a temperature. This is actually quite useful - we had a dog with a recurrent autoimmune disease and now we have one who gets pancreatitis, and we've always managed to get them to the vet before a flare really gets going because I can smell their temperatures going up.

I can do the ear thing as well - I didn't realise that some people couldn't!

[Lockdown2TheLockening]

I can tell my kids' temperatures to 0.1 of a degree. It's uncanny. Totally pointless as we have a thermometer, but at least I can tell if they have a temperature and need to get it out.

[LaurieSchafferIsAllBitterNow]

[quote letsgomaths]@LaurieSchafferIsAllBitterNow With being able to hear electricity, I presume you mean hearing more than the high-pitched whistle old TVs used to make? Fascinating about interfering with radios. I'm sorry to say it, but it reminds me of that Mr Bean episode where he interfered with a shop window display of TVs, simply by walking past them. [/quote]
yes....it's a whistle but not, I know if there is a plug switched on in a room.

and the Mr Bean thing...that's me with radios. :o I am Not Allowed to touch the car radio in dh's at all, it won't tune in for days if I touch it. DS1 also has it, and mostly we have to have the kitchen radio off if he is home too!

[motorcyclenumptiness]

I can change an empty toilet roll. I assume this must be some kind of superpower as, of all the adults in this house, apparently I'm the only one able to do this