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’m really good at reading people and situations.

yes, it’s wanky, like all work bullshit activities.

I can remember most conversations verbatim and can thus quote people or dispute misquotes.

I am stupendous at getting spider plants to grow. They flourish around me. Everything else, not so much!

And I'd say that at a work do.

I can terminate the existence of anyone who organises an 'icebreaker' with a single glance.

Actually back when I was gainfully employed (rather than self-employed) my real superpower was avoiding any kind of wanky training/meeting/gathering where the expression 'icebreaker' might be deployed.

I can smell snow a couple of days before it falls. The air smell changes. I thought this was normal until recently. I have a very good understanding of the law particularly around the equalities act and contracts. I keep this information to myself until I need to use it

I was pretty pleased with my onions but some of yours are amazing.

Given that team-building and other such work bullshittery is beyond my control I will go with the superpower question, thank you for helping 💐

This is my superpower as well. Which is good because I'm also exceptionally good at losing things.

Assessing people accurately at first sight

No, cos is makes me sounds arsey

Being a mum!

I'm a brilliant granny.

I can resolve any personal issue, no matter how life changing, disastrous, devastating and inconvenient, with a bar of galaxy caramel, a coffee and a new notebook. Literally can go from end of the world to brand new life with the help of a new clicky pen and a fresh note book.

For the second part of the question, I don't do ice breakers. My answer to tell us a fun fact is "my fun fact is I don't like ice breakers"

I’m very good at reading people’s facial expressions, and I almost always know what some people are gonna say before they say it… think8ng about it, maybe I should be a body language expert 🤓

I am good at dry stone walling and can look at a space that needs a stone, then find a stone from the pile that will fit in just right regardless of whether the stone is the right way round when I'm looking at it or not. At least the soil has some use, but it's never going to make me a millionaire.

I make milk 🤪 plus I can recognise the number plates of anyone we know and have a very good sense of direction.

Me too!

I can make people like me. Even people I really don't like. I can switch on a kind of alter ego that is perky and funny, and super interested in the person I am talking to. It is very useful at work! I can feel it happening and I can see that the person I am interacting with thinks we are really bonding etc - but it's like an out of body experience and im not really there. Have been able to do it since childhood.

Just to add I don't take this super power lightly,

With great power, comes great response utility.

I lucid dream and can fly in my dreams instead of falling. It’s a lot of fun.

I’d never admit it as an icebreaker because it’s such a wanky answer.

I can do this too!!

I know want people are thinking, before they say anything.

All ice breakers are wanky.

I can turn a tea towel into a chicken

Photo or we don’t believe you 😀

Me too, can also wake up at the time I decide before I go to sleep, without an alarm.

When I was a teenager and a waitress/short order cook in the south of France I learnt how to cut a fairly average sized tomato into to 17 slices.