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!

@WineInTheWillows, not great, tbh, but thanks.

I am really good at researching things online. I seem to just know what combination of key words will get the results the searcher is looking for. It doesn't seem that special but I love finding things when others haven't been able to, even if it seemed obvious to me!

I'm very good at cleaning (because of my ocd, a blessing and a curse) and any hobby apart from singing and dancing I've been naturally excellent at, cooking, poetry, sports etc

We are all awesome

I've got the time thing , fitted sheet folding and the very fast reading. I used to be able to remember phone nos and codes, and had a near photographic memory but it disappeared after my 1st DC was born. To this may I please add:
The ability to see without a spirit level if something is straight /square.
Perfect judgement about how big a container needs to be to hold something - eg a bowl to hold leftovers from dinner.

I used to work with a blind lady who could 'hear' where the cupboards in the office were. She knew when the furniture had been moved without us telling her. Amazing.

Oh and the person up thread who walks into doorways - I used to do that and found I had an astigmatism. Used to bump my babies' heads on the doorways when carrying them too . Glasses stopped it

I am a knowing the time person as well. My children think it's amazing.

Once at a bus stop in Florida the children asked me what time it was and I told them what I thought. Then the lovely Mexican lady next to me told me the time from her watch and I was an hour out. I was genuinely bemused at having got it so wrong.

A moment later she came over again and said that she had forgotten to change her watch from her local time and it was, in fact, an hour later. Just as I had said. What a relief!

@Biffbaff

I am really good at researching things online. I seem to just know what combination of key words will get the results the searcher is looking for. It doesn't seem that special but I love finding things when others haven't been able to, even if it seemed obvious to me!

I have this skill too!

@lightlypoached

We are all awesome

I've got the time thing , fitted sheet folding and the very fast reading. I used to be able to remember phone nos and codes, and had a near photographic memory but it disappeared after my 1st DC was born. To this may I please add:
The ability to see without a spirit level if something is straight /square.
Perfect judgement about how big a container needs to be to hold something - eg a bowl to hold leftovers from dinner.

I used to work with a blind lady who could 'hear' where the cupboards in the office were. She knew when the furniture had been moved without us telling her. Amazing.

Oh and the person up thread who walks into doorways - I used to do that and found I had an astigmatism. Used to bump my babies' heads on the doorways when carrying them too . Glasses stopped it

We have very similar talents though I don't yet have the walking into doorways bit

I wear glasses (to fix my astigmatism) and still accidentally bashed my DD’s heads on doorways.
I’ve just got terrible depth perception.

@Mypathtriedtokillme

I wear glasses (to fix my astigmatism) and still accidentally bashed my DD’s heads on doorways. I’ve just got terrible depth perception.

Same. I don't bash DS's though because I cover his head with my hand just in case, or walk into rooms sideways to avoid it.

Parallel parking. I'm have terrible depth perception and a shit sense of direction on general but for some reason am incredible at parallel parking. Nobody gets why, least of all me.

I can also touch my nose with my tongue.

Same with spelling and guessing the time.
Guessing random things in general. Dh is astonished, it's mainly common sense!!

I can sing quite nicely and type very fast. Not at same time.

I can usually spot if someone isn't ok from a mile away. Again, to me it's usually obvious.

I can still do a backflip. 3 children later I'm pretty proud of that

It takes me ages to drive forward into a parking space but I can reverse park like a boss.

@Mypathtriedtokillme I feel so much better knowing it want just me

Recognising singing voices and remembering directions. Might not seem that special until you saw me in action.
I HAVE A SUPER POWER!!!!

I can tie a turban.
I can find my way without a map with a nose for direction.

Im an insanely good builder in computer games and skip the 'starter box shape house' phase that most players go through and go straight into building huge, complex buildings like castles, taverns, longhouses etc.

Im very proud of it but to most I have mentioned it to they say 'your too old to waste your time on video games' and they just kind of roll their eyes at me.

I have the nose of a bloodhound - I can smell things before anyone else can (something burning, someone about to get ill, gas leak, oncoming rain, dental problems to name a few). I can also recognise who is approaching me by their scent before I've looked at them.

I can guess the time within 5 minutes.

I can hear flaws in singing that others can't, even though I can barely hold a tune myself.

I can break tension and diffuse situations with humor.

I have a strong gut instinct. If someone is no good, I just know it. I can also hear lie quite clearly.

I am really good at not letting people dance around a question and give me a non-answer. Also really good at getting people to confide in me. I also have a 100% track record of maintaining that confidence, I am like an impenetrable vault.

I know within 10 minutes of meeting a person what motivates them and what their achilles heel is, and know precisely what to say to cheer up/motivate them or tear them to shreds (though I have not done the latter since my asshole teenage years).

I can read upside-down and in reverse, and can recite the alphabet backwards without struggle.

I am pretty good at being able to suss out potential consequences of big life decisions and can negate bad outcomes and accordingly.

I am semi ambidextrous.

But I clearly cannot type!

I can queef 'god save the Queen'

I always used to be super impressed as a kid by my mum's ability to peel an entire apple with a knife in one continuous spiral. whenever i try, I end up with at least 3 bits of peel rather than one

I can name the capital city of almost every country across the world. Almost! I get a bit stuck when it comes to Africa, African countries always throw me 🙈

Also, hula hooping. Very useless skill that I’m strangely very proud of 😂

I can stare into space for hours on end.

Time teller and speed reader here too.

I used to be able, within a short while of meeting someone (that period of time after you know them a bit, but not so well that you know anything about their private lives), to guess whether they had siblings and if so how many, what sex and where they themselves fit into the family. Completely freaked out one colleague (and myself, tbh) when I guessed correctly he was the sixth out of seven, youngest boy, with three older sisters and two older brothers.

Picking things up with my toes
Cramming things into cupboards
Remembering layouts of supermarkets
Recognising and identifying obscure sounds over the phone, such as recently knowing my boyfriend had been to McDonald's as I heard the sound of the straw going into a bottle when he rang me in the car, knowing he had had greggs as I heard him pat down his top from crumbs (also ringing in car). Knowing my mum was putting eye drops in as she sounded like her head was tipping back (mouth goes all gorpy which distorts speech). Knowing my boyfriend was sat in living room not at his desk due to the stages of sitting up taking too long than it would if he was at an office chair.