What's your really pointless super power?

[MyTaupeHare]

I can tell, just from a photo of their face, if a person has a lisp.

I have yet to find a use for this undoubted super power.

What's your really useless super power?

I can do the phonetic alphabet. Had to learn it in the 80s when I had a summer job working for BT taking pager messages!

Apart from supersmell powers I can recognise handwriting.

I can identify all bottled water by tasting. (Without seeing the bottle).

When filling up my weekly pill box with various medications, I can tip exactly 7 into my hand without thinking about it. This happens far too much for it to be a coincidence and not a really pointless super power!

I can get eggshell out of cracked eggs instantly. My kids think it's amazing. I just wish I wasn't such a kitchen klutz that I get it in there in the first place!

I can wiggle my ears.
I can fall asleep.at will - that one is actually handy if I need a nap before a night shift.

Well you could go and freedive for pearls. So that is not pointless.

I am extremely good at retrieving bricks from the pool floor, and I can read upside down as quick as most people can read the right way up.

I haven't tried both at once.

I can always look at the clock at a time that is exactly the same in hours and minute eg 17:17. DH does not find it interesting when I tell him. My favourite time is 22:22 of course 😂.

I can do this too. I did it the other day to check I could still do it and gave myself eye strain.

I can tip unfinished wine from the glass back into the bottle without drips or spillage. However I suspect that the majority on Mumsnet would not need to practice such a skill often 😂

I can have a long conversation with you and spend a good while just chatting, despite the fact that you have greeted me by name and fully expect me to remember you and our previous conversations, I have no idea who you are.

I can read upside down. I mean the book is upside down, not me.

I can also always find a parking space, but that is quite a useful superpower to have. I am thinking of calling myself Sparker as my superpower character name, haven’t thought of an outfit yet though.

So can I! I feel so validated 😂

They used to write backwards in war rooms and was a sought-after skill. The comms people would be on one side of a glass wall with all their signal machines, and the generals would be on the other with their maps and plans. The comms operators would write incoming info backwards on the glass wall so the generals could read it and work out their battle strategies.

I can put something on to cook and know when its ready 10 seconds before the timer goes off

What the frick! TWO of you on here can read upside down?!

And people can casually write backwards?

This thread is revelatiary.

We are the future.

I can see what you’re thinking. Pointless because I’d rather I couldn’t.

I have alopecia. I wear a wig. A cheap one - cost of living etc.

I don't care too much about it. I am too old to be bothered .

That is my completely pointless and useless super power. 🙈😂

But...if anyone needs help with coming to terms with alopecia PM. I am 30 plus years in and counting. 🙄

Twenty years ago I would have said snap on both counts.
I can still wiggle my ears but can no longer sleep at will. I miss that super talent

I can tell when things are going to kick off in eg a pub with 5 mins notice so there's enough time to leave safely before it starts.

That is not pointless! Begone from this thread.

I can close down businesses just by visiting them and liking them.

One day I discover them-next time they’ve gone. I don’t take it personally.

It rarely comes up now I don't hang out in dodgy pubs any more!