What's your useless talent?

[MrOllivander]

Making cottage pie and was thinking!
I can always make 5 portions of anything. Pasta, cottage pie, stew. It weighs exactly to split into 5 even if I don't weigh the ingredients

What's yours?

I have been known to carry on typing one train of thought while having a conversation about something else with a colleague. Freaks them out.

My sister could flare her nostrils and I was always half pinching her nose to feel the flare. We were under 10 though. I'll have to do it the next time I see her.

My useless talent is wooden rail track construction, only good for wooden rail track construction, bends, tunnels, bridges. God I miss those simple days.

I can also pack a car for moving Ds to uni, I can see it in my head when I look at all the bags, cases, boxes laid out in the house etc. Dh says we should have bought a bigger booted car. He isn't wrong.

At secondary school, within days of a new timetable starting, I would have internalised the underlying logic of it and I’d be able to say what subject all my friends had in (for example) 3rd period based on me having French or whatever.

totally useless.

I can give myself goosebumps on demand.
Only found out through here not everyone can do it....

@SoggyPaper , 🤣. That's not totally useless ! Having worked in secondary schools and seen children wandering aimlessly because they'd forgotten what was next, I'd say you could have made a few bob out of it !
Mine is remembering names. When I meet someone who's had the baby, I not only remember the names they liked, I remember middle names and the names they were having for the opposite sex !

I can fold a fitted sheet perfectly

Ear wiggling, individual eyebrow raising, and perfect rice with no water left.

A missed opportunity!

i remember that my friends would need to check their written timetables to see what they had after break. I’d find myself telling them what they had.

It’s just pattern recognition really.

on the other hand, I am absolutely useless at remembering names. Embarrassingly so. I often get the point where I don’t know someone’s name and it’s long past appropriate to ask.

I can burp the alphabet.

I can play the tin whistle and usually can play from ear, don't have to read the music and can do a little bit of Irish Dancing and can usually make a sauce out of nothing. Can also cut my own fringe and have mastered it but besides that am fairly average.

I can name all 50 states of the USA in alphabetical order.

I can just about get through the day without wanting to murder someone.

I can bite my toenails. Both feet, but only one at a time.

Class! Love that talent.

You haven’t met my husband yet. He would likely push you over the edge. 🤣

I can remember very long numbers.

I can glance at a patient's face and know the size of impression tray we'll need. I'm not sad we hardly use physical impressions now tho bloody mess

I can perfectly poach eggs every time without using a timer. Doesn’t matter what size they are.

In all other culinary duties I fail miserably.

actually me too! same as my granddad! he used to just go on a walk look down and find them. I've walked out to my back yard and found some ditto places in don't know

I can whistle very loudly and tunefully!

I have the ability to make everyone who meets me despise me.

I’m sure we could all do that if we tried hard enough.

I can make Maltesers disappear.

I know which direction is north.

Me too actually