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?

Another one with a strong sense of smell. When I was working in adult medicine, I realised that I could actually smell which of the sick patients were going to die within about the next day. Not BO, totally different smell. Freaked me out a bit.

@Margotshypotheticaldog nope! No a horse rider...but useful to know it has some practical application

I can do a 636 piece jigsaw in one sitting without even going for a pee.

I can talk backwards. So if you said a word to me I could say it back to you backwards. To be honest I thought everyone could do it until I saw some girl was featured on Oprah who could do it (she wasn't even that great at it tbh ) it's not especially useful until we get invaded by backwards talking aliens...

@FairIsleFenella perfume and food companies etc would love you both to work for them

I can identify random human bones and separate them from animal bones. are you Kathy reichs or even temperance Brennan?

I have a totally useless but excellent memory for numbers, phone numbers from decades ago but also annoyingly customer account numbers from decades ago too (yes I'm old!)

On the plus side means I can remember my own account numbers etc although I'm struggling to remember my "new" phone number...that I've had almost a year!

I can read really fast (and remember what I read). So I can do a regular sized book in an hour or so. same - didn't really realise it was weird until I hit gcse English and noticed I'd finished the book while others had barely started but were equally studious pupils

I can tell when people are early pregnant before they've announced it.

I had a friend who could do this before the woman even knew she was pregnant, including me

I can change a nappy and get children into a car in super quick time. oh nearly forgot this one

I can change a nappy one handed with baby on my lap, I've looked after loads of babies so had tons of practice not just dd, when I'm in practice I can even do it without looking! I actually really struggle faffing around with changing tables etc hate them

Plus I'm the only person I know that's right handed but left footed. now you - virtually - know another.

@Loftyloft

I can ‘click’ my eardrums on demand without swallowing (on airplanes to relieve ear pressure).

I've just realised I can also do this!! Made my day that has.

I can do the splits on demand. I am quite fat and am in no way trained for such an endeavour but nonetheless, I can do it.

I can talk and write backwards, not useful but fun to fill in crosswords that way.

I can also make my stomach rumble and gurgle loudly on demand.

I can read really fast. Chick lit type standard paperback in 45-60 mins. And I can read well upside down too

A lot of people tend not to believe it but I know when someone is going to die. I can sense it. I even knew the day my husband passed away that he had died despite it being completely unexpected and I had only spoke to him moment's before. I don't refer to myself as psychic or anything to that affect. I just wake up with a feeling of heavy sadness and can't figure out what is up. I don't be able to eat and my stomach feels really tight then before the day is over I hear the news of someone passing. It freaks me out but it hasn't happened for a while thankfully. Also I can move my nose like a rabbit and my tongue can practically go inside a nostril 😂

I'm good at packing (it's like Tetris), music quizzes and number plates.
Anything else and I'm fucked

I also know when someone is pregnant and what sex it will be

I make excellent gravy every single time.

My sister can ALWAYS get tickets when they go on sale at 9am and the website crashes and they sell out in 3 mins. She will have tickets.

My dh is a legendary parallel parker. It's extremely sexy

I love these sort of mundane superpowers, I think everyone has one even if they haven't realised it yet.

I can lick my nose. Funnily enough, it hasn't really benefited me

I can mirror write. But I'm best at it when I've had a glass of wine so I don't overthink it. Then it just flows.

I also lucid dream. And can wake up from, re enter and manipulate the outcome of dreams.

Not all the time, but when I can, I write them down because they're epic!

I didn't know the clicky ear thing was a thing! I can do that, I can estimate my shopping to the pence without thinking about it, and I can play jingle bells with my noisy joints on both my index fingers. I'm just waiting for the opportunity to unleash my power onto the world.

@Stroller15 BGT is your outlet here! We'll be waiting to cheer you on!!!

I can always pick exactly the right tupperware for the amount of food to be stored -

I can predict how many weeks pregnant most women I know are, to the week. Even if I'm not overly invested in their pregnancies or if I haven't seen them in ages.

The most pointless, and weirdly stalkerish superpower ever.

I can stop time! Well just wrist watches, my dm and one of my dds are the same. Every watch I have had has stopped working within 5 mins of me wearing it, however my Apple Watch works fine 🤷🏼‍♀️

I have a very common name, there must be someone with an international arrest warrant with same name and birthdate.

I worked with someone who had this. She was Irish and called Mary (the same as 50% of Irish women) but her surname was the same as someone in the IRA who was wanted.

She had worked in the middle east and she was talking to a friend in a cafe about a bomb that had gone off while she worked there.

Someone called the police. Fortunately she had a different middle name.

Some of these are fab.
I can lick my nose, and twitch it like a rabbit.
I can also sense when there is a spider anywhere in a room. Useless skill now as the cat is like a ninja at catching the 8 legged fuckers.

I am ridiculously sensitive to people’s moods, and can always pick up when someone is not ok.
I also know hundreds of useless birthdays, kids I went to school with , to neighbors in our first home!

I love how many 'single use' superpowers there are. Being able to remember a face, birthday or phone number from someone met once 30 years ago, tell the time without reference to phone or watch, do mirror writing.

There will come a day when that superpower has its moment. When the owner will say 'see, I told you it would come in useful one day'.

It reminds me of my DM's enormous and weighty handbag.

When I suggested she could do with something smaller and lighter each item was justified as having either saved the day or would have saved the day if only she had been carrying it. These items included but were not limited to: a couple of screwdivers, a gardening knife, an esoteric first aid kit (no bandages but things like Rennies, corn plasters and some weird gel for treating minor grazes) and a bag of sweets she didnt like.

She finally dispensed with the hand bag when her shoulder gave out and she couldnt carry it any longer (probably because of the weight).