What are your underwhelming skills that you’re privately quite proud of

[Breakfastburrito]

Mine are:

Being exceptionally good at slicing bread (straight, even slices every time, even on squishy, unevenly shaped loaves)

Uncannily accurate at guessing the time when I haven’t looked at a clock for hours - I’m never more than a few minutes out.

Tell me the things you can do that are not that impressive!

Meringues,and I can always find a parking spot

I am amazing at beat sabre on VR. Was a total natural the first time I played 😂. I play on the advanced levels and get perfect scores. I hate playing computer games so this skill came totally out the blue.

I can't do nuffing.

I'm wubbish.

These are fantastic! Apart from a bit of typo-spotting I'm feeling quite inadequate.

Tho I can click my double jointed thumb and occasionally people quiver with horror at this (no voming yet, tho) 😂

You lot are so talented! I'm pretty good at guessing who the birthday card are from from the envelope. I can usually look at cards a family member has got and say who sent each one from the picture on the front.

I another who can untie and knot / untangle any jewellery. I'm a bit annoyed there are so many of us and the competitive streak in me wants to challenge everyone else to a knot off so I can prove I'm the best

I can make a lasagne by eye, I always make the red sauce first (veg then meat) then make the white sauce by eye and I always make exactly the right amount to not only complement the red sauce, but to fit in the dish I pull out.

It's uncanny how I scrape the last scrap on each sauce to make a perfectly full lasagne dish with equal layers.

It's also uncanny how much mess I make while doing this, and unloading / reloading the dishwasher is a much harder skill then untangling an impossible knot for me

*veg or meat I meant, I am skilled in two different lasagne!

I hope someone is taking note for the next new years honours

I can peel an apple with a single loop of peel.

My husband can swallow pills with no water and no movement of his head. I'm baffled by this.

When someone throws something at me, I just stick my hand out and what is being thrown, just lands right in it without me moving.

And I'm really good at remembering letters on number plates. Just not the numbers...

My underwhelming (and pretty useless) skill is that I can walk absolutely silently. People often don't realise I've entered a room until I start talking. I don't do it on purpose, I'm just naturally very light on my feet. Like an overweight ninja both kids are the same, many a time I've turned round and almost tripped over one of them because I didn't hear them. Or I find them just standing behind me like creepy horror movie kids

Packing a suitcase. The art is in rolling all big items and not folding. You get far more in and the creases are not bad. Beach towel on the bottom, then shoes, they need to be clean. Then underwear in between and then start the rolling of all clothes. Wash bag in the middle and keep rolling to the sides of the case. Anything super lovely on the top folded but only a few.

Double jointed thumb, plus toes (my dsis has a double jointed elbow - now that’s impressive!). Also, I can tie a cherry stem with my tongue.

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I can fold a fitted sheet really neatly. Also, socks.

Oh I can do a fitted sheet. It really puzzles me why people have a problem with this!!!

I can calm people and situations down! Thank god. Got friends and I out of a few dodgy moments in our younger days.

I believe that if I wasn’t a fatty or a mum I could be an actual ninja. I have super fast reactions when stuff gets knocked over, like I come over all Matrix and just catch stuff. I can just do it. People marvel at it. Preens.

I can pick things up with my feet.

Before chemo destroyed my brain I used to be able to speed read. I could also retain information from books/lectures/training sessions and able to copy a skill when shown only once.

If I like the sound of a song I can pick up the lyrics within the first hearing - two at most. I can also see, consider and understand both sides of an argument in almost all circumstances. I find that many, many people really struggle with that?

I can braid three maraschino cherry stems with my tongue. Which, in my younger days, caused quite a bit of excitement in certain quarters.

Also, I can tie a cherry stem with my tongue.

This is actually a real thing?! But how?!

I bow to your superior skill @Mamanyt

Mamanyt

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@amymel2016

I can read a book/look at my phone for hours as a passenger in a car and not get sick

So envious!!

I know where things are. Around the house, in any one of our three local supermarkets or generally which nearby shop stocks a thing. I occasionally catch myself browsing the shops mentally topping up my index of what they stock.

I just tried the cherry stem one, it was my party trick as a teen. It's easier than I remember but I don't have tongue piercings in the way now so maybe that's why.

I have the nose of a bloodhound. I can tell when someone changes an ingredient in a dish from a single whiff lol. I always know exactly when someones dinner is ready just from the smell, it always freaks people out.