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?

@ScribblyGum

First pancake is always perfect.

THAT is a superpower worth having!

These seem like cool superpowers - most of them. Here are mine:

Mental gymnastics trainer - having people at job interviews do mental gymnastics in an effort to finds bad excuses. Couldn't get a job but have left some ripped mental gymnasts behind.

Appearing to be 3 people at once - (1) a very young adult (2) a slightly weird middle-aged woman (me!) and (3) a very old, experienced person.

Making recruiters and HR people run quite far and quite fast it seems

Prehensile toes - quite useful for picking things off the floor.

Never failed to find a urethra in 20 years to catheterise a woman. I am legendary in my workplace...........

I can read things upside down and back to front(so if someone was sitting across from me writing something)as quickly as I can read normally.

I can waggle my ears. I’m double jointed in my hands and fingers. I have hyper mobility in my hips. I have synaesthesia and an amazingly good memory. Apart from the synaesthesia and ability to memorise, all thoroughly useless attributes.

@SD1978 - that is so not pointless! That's impressive.

@TheYeaSayer that sound like two really useful superpowers.

You could sit in medical receptions, sniff patients and decide who can come in and who cant. Obviously not at the moment but come the day....

The knitting could keep you busy in the quiet times.

I can fold down pop up play tents, the kind where you twist it the right way and to turns into a flat circle.

I had no idea this was a superpower until I started going to a playgroup and everyone was amazed at tidy up. Apparently they had previously just shoved it in the cupboard as it was because non of the other parents had the knack.

I can hold a bottle of beer with my cleavage

I can wake myself at anytime I want without an alarm clock.

I always set one, but I always rouse 5 minutes before it's due to go off.

Oh, and I have magnificent catching hands. Like something out of Matrix, I can gauge at the quickest of throws, where I my hand should be to catch the object - almost ninja-like.

Shame about the rest of me.

@LittleEsme - that is the superpower I am most jealous of. I'm the opposite. I catch like Charlie Brown - can see the ball floating down towards my hand and still miss. I remember watching a dad at cricket and it was as if the ball was metal and his hand was a magnet. It seemed to want to find his hand. Mesmerizing.

I can only catch things if I'm not expecting to. My subconscious is great at catching, as long as my conscious doesn't get in the way.

@ForeverBubblegum you could hire yourself out with that skill. I could imagine it being marketed as a post party clean up

I have an uncanny knack of ringing someone at the right time eg I'll know my friend is in the shopping centre and ring to get me something and they'll be standing outside the right shop, or in the right aisle in a supermarket

@LittleEsme I do that with the time too, always set an alarm but 99.9% of the time wake up just before it goes off, whether set for 6am or 8am

I have I think above average taste and smell.

I went for a job interview once as an assistant to a flavourist.

My interview was with two guys and I had to sit in a booth and tell them what every sample was by either taste or smell. I got every single one right. They added double the samples to see if it was a fluke but it wasn't.

@VickySunshine

I have a photographic memory.

Can you remember everything you see forever or do things leave your memory after a period of time?

@scrivette

I can drive my car to 90mph and do a perfect 90 degree turn by stamping on the brake and slightly twitching the steering wheel, ending up facing the way I want to go and carrying on.

This is not something I find useful in my daily journeys or something I leaned on the road.

How the actual fuck did you learn to do that?

I can always light a fag no matter how windy it is. Not entirely pointless.

I can also remember every outfit I've worn for every wedding I've been to and every successful interview I've had. I can often remember what other people wore as well.

Oh yes and more useful, I always know what the time is and I have an almost infallible sense of direction except that one time in Florence.

I have hyper mobility in some of my joints...I can lie my hands flat against my arms, and lie in bed on my back with the soles of my feet flat on the bed without bending my knees. Can also bend down and touch the floor with my palms keeping my legs totally straight.
No-one cares though!!

The legs and bed thing has freaked me out! I'm picturing it and it's making me queasy!

I also have an internal clock and know the time roughly by 2 or 3 minutes.
I can use my feet like hands so can ds5 and ds12
I can spray from my mouth at will like you do when you yawn. Probably best keeping that one quiet atm.

I can raise one eyebrow. Really high. It’s impressive but useless.

Not me, but my mum has no sensation in her fingertips, so she can pick up boiling hot stuff if she uses just the tops of her fingers!

I also remember birthdays, the children of friends I haven’t seen for ages, people I used to work with. I’m very good with dates. I use a calendar but I know when the various birthdays are coming up.

What annoys me is people saying “oh you’re so good at remembering birthdays, I’m hopeless.”

All it takes is a bloody calendar!!!