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!

When I was a child I used to be able to "hear" electricity. I say hear but it was more of a feeling in my ears if that makes sense. I could walk up to a house and know if they had the TV on or not without being able to hear the TV itself.

I can't do this now. I think this skill vanished by the time I was in my teens. I've no idea if it was remarkable or commonplace, but I'm aware children do have more sensitive hearing than adults.

I've remembered another one- super-fast typist, so handy that I learned to touch type all those years ago.

I'm good at making meals out of random ingrediants and leftovers.

Ooh I thought of another one.

I'm good at detecting the sex of unborn babies. I have about an 80% success rate

@KarmaNoMore

Wow *@Hoppinggreen*, that’s amazing! Out of curiosity did you train your brain to do that or were you born with it?

The reading? I could always do it. DH has asked me to teach him but I can’t because I dont know how I do it. When he did his MBA I proof read his whole dissertation in about 15 minutes

@Confusedandshaken

I'm really, really good at choosing presents. They often seem odd choices but people are generally thrilled with what I get them.

That being said I have had two notable failures with gifts for my adult daughters. That was sad. 🙁

You're not my mother, are you? Last Christmas, she bought my sister and me both hideous, polyester teddy-fleece bedding sets in a dark colour, when we both only use white 100% cotton.

On second thoughts, my DM doesn't do technology and I'm sure you have much better taste than that

I can judge if furniture will fit a space within millimetres without measuring. We have alcoves in a very old house, and our wardrobes are exactly the right size.
I can also judge whether furniture will fit up and around stair and through doors just by looking and know how to twist it. Men hate this, it seems to be regarded as a ‘man’ skill. Especially if house movers are involved.
I can also judge the boil point of sugar for toffee, fudge, tablet, jam etc without a thermometer. Unfortunately this is matched by my ability to eat the end product, so it’s a skill I try not to use.

I’m really good at parking. I have a large 7 seater as we need it for our business. I manage to park it even in the tightest spots. When I’ve gone out in someone else’s car, they’ve often stepped out and asked me to park it for them. Dh always gets me to park because he’s useless at it!

I also get rice perfect, every single time. My Nan always tell me I cook the best rice, which is important in an Asian household. Whenever we had a party she’d always ask me to make the rice because no one else could get it as fluffy and separate as me. My cousins are all jealous 😂

I regularly grab the right number of something I need eg I need some sheets of paper pick up a pile and it works out to the perfect number...potting bulbs and I’ll shake out “some” and it will be the right number I need. I never count things out but usually end up with the right number ☺️

I’m really good at folding clothes.

In fact, it’s the only domestic skill of mine that my ex MIL ever acknowledged.

Naming a song from just a few seconds of the intro being played (in a lot of cases - not all obviously!)

@hansgrueber and @EggyPegg is this a form of ambidexterity? My DM writes on paper with her right hand but on a white board with her left hand.

Able to disappear from social situations almost instantly.

I’ve had a lifetime of professional practice at it.

I can give pills to cats.

Pea shooter?

I’m so jealous of all these, I have no sense of time and terrible spatial awareness so I am less skilled than normal at most of them
However, I can read very quickly (such that teachers at school thought I was lying) and I am ambidextrous so I can do pretty much everything with both hands, including writing equally messy with each hand

@TheFiend how do you do the rice? How? Please share. Rice terrifies me

I can catch mosquitos 🦟 like a ninja. They likely fly past and I grab them and squish in my hand.

I can remember really random things and people I've met just once, but nothing useful like phone numbers or the people's names. I think I just remember things that interest me. I have no other skills, but I'm quite nice, definitely no spelling or punctuation abilities .

I can walk towards a wall in the dark and stop before I got it. Ican feel it there in the air in front of me.

Yes to the knowing someone is pregnant early thing and to pretty much 100% on guessing the sex.

Dogs absolutely love me. I don't just mean your friendly spaniels or labs. Snappy daschunds, nervous old dears and guard dog Dobermans all melt at my feet.

I seem to have a weird premonition of problems ahead on the road. There's been several times I've said to DH "slow down!" before a corner or bend and come round to find a hazard like a car crash/sheep on the road/mud/a tractor dragging a trailer out of a field etc etc. No idea how when I can't see ahead. Not that DH drives very fast anyway but he always listens now and every time I'm right.

I can shout really REALLY loudly, even though I'm naturally quite softly spoken and reserved. Occasionally useful at a raucous party or when corralling a gang of teens as they are so shocked at this coming out of me with no warning.

I can play old Mcdonald and other songs on a piano with my feet product of being made to play piano as a child when I didn't want to, my rebellion was I will sound like I'm practising but it doesn't count if it's with my feet

@j712adrian

Able to disappear from social situations almost instantly.

I’ve had a lifetime of professional practice at it.

I’m intrigued. What profession requires instant social disappearing acts?

I’m good at it too. But only because I’m so introverted!

I can do jigsaws amazingly quickly.
I am in the telling the time to the nearest minute gang.
Today I reversed into our garage for the 1st time in 11yrs. I am so stupidly proud I didn't hit the doors, bikes, freezer etc.

@Loudhouse - magician’s assistant?

I can make perfect poached eggs! Just in the pan with water, no cheating utensils! I was so chuffed I nailed it as I am rubbish at cooking

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