What’s your superpower?

[ParrotPirouette]

Two questions, the first is in the title- what’s your superpower?

The second is, if you were asked this as an ice breaker at the start of a team-building whatsit, would you think it was wanky?

Mine is that onions have no power over me, I could chop a hundred of them with no tears.

I used to be really good at guessing how much something weighed, but it was because a previous job involved weighing lots of different items.

I can usually guess what time it is, accurate to about five minutes.

I think it’s a good icebreaker question but I’d really struggle to think of an answer on the spot. I’d sit there squirming and hoping I was not picked to be one of the first to answer. Then after a few people have shared theirs I might think of something. That’s what I’m going to do on this thread!

I always can feel what time it is, even if I wake up at night, I can guess the time I'll look at the clock and I'm always right 😂 pointless skill really. I think it's quite a good ice breaker op I've heard a lot worse 🤷🏻‍♀️

I always know the time, and I can predict the weather with about 80% accuracy.

I ask Alexa how long my timer has to go and she says ‘you have less than 10 seconds on your 30 minute timer’
I shouldn’t bother asking :)

I think that’s better than the Met office 🤣

Same!

My only time-related superpower is suddenly discovering 3 hours have gone past me while I wasn't looking!

Now-defunct superpowers, related to old jobs and now withered away: being able to know exactly how many people are in a room, just by casting an eye over them; adding up a column of figures at a glance; identifying the weight, type and quality of paper by touch.

My current superpower is not having any powers ...

I can fall asleep really quickly and practically anywhere. It really takes the sting out of long journeys.

I instinctively know which direction I’m facing, even when indoors. It’s possible I’ve just made knowing where the sun or the stars are second nature, and I don’t consciously look for clues, but I think it’s because I have a bit of an internal sat nav/compass so I’m subconsciously adjusting when I move around - I know where I am in relation to where I last was, and the place before that and the place before that etc.

This causes a lot of marital drama because DH has no sense of direction at all (if he goes into a room that has 3 doors and stands there for a minute or two he can’t tell you which one he came through). Which wouldn’t be a problem except he refuses to accept I’m right when I give him a direction 😂 (cliche marriage alert!)

This isn’t quite what you’re looking for but I once had a date with a man who said in his recurring dream he could jump ten feet in the air! Which I thought would be a great superpower to have. He was well over six foot tall, so not quite so useful to him!

I'm really good at beermat flipping. I can flip a big stack of them at once.
i can also cut a block of butter to the exact measurement I want. Nothing else, just butter.

I can gauge the volume of a space to a millimetre by eye.

It's an incredibly handy skill. I'm very good at packing.

I can move my ears

I'm also an intuitive proofreader and can find a single typo or grammatical error on an A4 page of crowded text in milliseconds.

Freezer Tetris

Overthinking.

I can cut a whole load of bread into even same-sized slices.

I'm the queen of finding things.
I always find anything almost instantly after someone announces that it's missing.

My DD claims to be able to do this and I’ve always been a bit sceptical but maybe it’s true!

My husband has a freaky memory for postcodes. He works on sites across the country, maybe 30 different sites each year and he remembers the postcodes for every one, including ones from the past. Also family members postcodes, the school, dentist, tescos etc. I think it commits to his memory when he enters it into his satnav and it is such a bloody dull superpower but quite useful at Christmas.

I can sleep at will. I really don't understand how people have trouble falling asleep. I wish I could work out how I do it, then I run classes and make my fortune.

I can think up new ideas without really trying. I input the information, wait for my brain to sort it all out, and out pops a new idea, often when I'm walking along or even in my dreams. Luckily this is my job. I don't sit there trying to think up new ideas otherwise it would never happen!

Me too with the beermat flipping. A stack of 20 is my maximum so far…

I can say the alphabet backwards in 3.5 seconds 😃

I could do with your services
We can never find anything!