What are you bloody brilliant at?

[JustASmidgen]

Inspired by another post about what people can’t do.. what CAN you do?

I can:
Whistle through my tongue when it’s rolled up
Play the piano and guitar by ear (not at same time)
Remember birthdays
Balance on one foot for a VERY long time without wobbling

All useful life skills, as you can imagine.

Excel
Sleeping in
Algebra
Reverse parking
Carrying on as normal in very odd, awkward or tense situations (a bit "very British problems" where you just behave as if nothing is out of the ordinary)
Making macaroni cheese

Untangling things
Wrapping presents
Suduko
Recognising actors and where we've seen them before

Packing a suitcase. Can fit loads in, keep it flat and usually come in well under the allowed weight.

Growing seeds. Everything I sow comes up so I always have way too many. Usually after I've forgotten what it is. Labelling things not my skill.

Creating imaginary friends. I'm never bored but also never fully focused on reality.

Which explains my other skills of getting lost and tripping over things. I could win awards at these.

Rolling spliffs and cramming for exams. I peaked in my late teens/early 20s 🥹

The tv game show catchphrase.
remembering people’s number plates.

Baking bread and putting duvet covers on.

Defusing situations.

I have the magic combination of being quite quiet, remarkably calm in almost all situations, whilst also being bloody massive and reasonably scary looking.

It means I can sit there quietly listening to people talking over each other and getting more wound up. I can then say something and the sheer shock that I'm actually talking usually shuts everyone up. At which point I summarise everyone else's position and suggest a compromise. A couple of rounds of that and everyone's happy, or at least equally unhappy.

And on the occasions that doesn't work, usually because there's a drunken twat in the room, standing up, looking intimidating and asking if we have a problem generally does the trick.

Running Rainbow Guide meetings, trips and sleepovers.
Leading primary school collective worship
Noticing when people aren't their usual selves (ill, upset, bothered by something)
I've been told a few times by various I make a mean lemon drizzle cake, Christmas cake, mince pies and key lime pie

Listening
Remembering random things about people - comes in handy for buying presents

Recognising faces (I’m a super recogniser)
Directions - I’m really good at finding places without a satnav

I can make a traditional hand wired waterfall bride's bouquet. Not one set in foam handle.
I was trained as a florist in the 80's before floristry foam was a thing and still remember all the old skills.

I’m bloody brilliant at overthinking texts, finding things my other half swears are “right in front of me,” and remembering every minor insult from 2007. Also not too shabby at parallel parking when no one’s watching.

Are you an official super recogniser @Happyhettie? - the kind that works with police and MI5? This has always intrigued me as a skill.

Maths

I’m excellent at stock judging. (Cows and sheep ). I can spot a champion animal from 50 paces.

Overthinking

I can look at a large piece of furniture and see how to rotate it and how many times, to remove it from a room/building. Didn't realize that I could do this until recently! It's very satisfying. And I've no idea how I do it!

I can sing the second alto part of lots of great musical works without the score.

Air Hockey. I can’t be beat.

Wrapping parcels
Cooking (which is just as well, because I’m rubbish at tidying and housework!)
Talking to strangers
Spelling and grammar. (Doesn’t mean I don’t make mistakes - I once wrote whose as whos (typo) and the spellchecker put in an apostrophe - I was mortified!)
Packing supermarket shop into minimum number of bags

Recognising and remembering number plates!

Pruning roses.

Predicting divorces/splits in my friendship groups. I'll pick up on some miniscule piece of behaviour, say they won't make it, and DH will be baffled.

Then 3-4 years later, I'll be like, I told you Simon was a wrongun, he changed the channel that time.

DH has had to concede that I'm right about this after numerous successes.

Getting stuff done
Being organised
Making pastry, also choc brownies and lemon meringue pie
DIY
Hacking, ie customising and reworking stuff to get what I want - clothes, furniture, household stuff etc. I’m always amazed when people say they like something but not one aspect of it so they don’t wear/use it. I just think “well change it then!”

1.cook
2.read emotions
3.linked to above - manipulate people