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!

Mine is a joint one. After a big meal/entertaining a crowd, we can clear up the kitchen to a spotless standards in minutes. We are a like a pair of Winston Wolfs, but better. We don’t even speak whilst doing it. We are like two ballet dancers and the kitchen is our stage. I’ve been told is beautiful to watch.

Cutting the right amount of butter or cheese by eye.
Making exactly the right amount of gravy/sauce to fit the jug without measuring anything.
Reading upside down- not sure if this is a super power or normal, it’s not something that comes up in conversation!
I do the reading everything too, I can’t pass a sign or notice without reading it so I take in a lot of information about my surroundings.
Would love some of the superpowers above- I have a terrible memory and am quite uncoordinated!

Following years of one to one teaching across a table I can read upside down as comfortably as ‘right way up’.

I don’t understand why people aren’t more interested in/impressed by this superpower

So good at faces. Even if I’ve only met you once I’ll remember where and when. Great at internal time telling, total rubbish at birthdays tho!

I’m really good at guessing stuff. You know when people say “guess how much this bag was / guess how old this person is / guess how much this house is listed for” etc. Nothing specific, just random guessing
Anything, random things.
No particular expert knowledge and no exceptional general knowledge.

I’m just REALLY good at guessing random stuff.

@CuntyMcBollocks

I can fold fitted sheets perfectly every time.

Witch! This is dark magic

I'm the Bin Queen of our street. I swear everyone waits for me to put my bins out so then they can do theirs, safe in the knowledge that they have got the right ones for that day out.

I can reset all the clocks in the house when the clocks change. If DH does it, he has to get out all the instruction manuals for cooker, microwave, dvd player, alarm clock etc etc but I just fiddle and work it out.

Can literally always find the end of the cellotape. I’m like a homing pigeon. Just waiting for it to become an olympic sport.

Smelling when broccoli is cooked when boiling

I can bend over and put my hands flat on the floor without bending my knees.
I'm 52 and overweight but find this easy.

I am really good at spotting Deer. A lovely skill but pretty useless!

Yes - I have the time power too! I can wake up in the middle of the night, not look at my clock and I can usually guess the time to within 15 mins

I can do the time thing too and a gold medalist at cutting bread very straight. I can also make brilliant Yorkshire puddings despite never weighing or measuring ingredients.

I can make beautiful fluffy rice in a saucepan using absorption method with no water left in the pan. I am extremely proud of this skill.

I am absolutely rubbish at remembering people’s names and faces - it is embarrassing.

I'm good at estimating quantities , like guessing the number of sweets in a jar for example. Comes in handy when selecting the right container for rice or pasta. And summer fairs...

I can wiggle my ears. Never met another person who can.

Oh and I supernatural powers in finding things that other people have lost or cannot find. Particularly at home and at work.

@FourTurnings

I can wiggle my ears. Never met another person who can.

I can wiggle my ears one at a time or both together!

I consistently open my packets of tablets at the not-annoying end, the end where they aren't hidden by the leaflet. 👍

I'm great at minesweeper

Im good at spotting fossils and four leaf clovers.
Im also good at remembering songs and lyrics

Facial recognition, within seconds. My partner thinks I’m bloody brilliant!

Ooh, also! I have magic hair that curls perfectly in the rain, I'm very pleased with that one

I can recall every item of clothing my children have ever worn, where it’s from, who gave it to them, where they wore it, how much it cost. I just know. It’s all catalogued in my head. Is this a skill?! I think it will be useful if they are lost maybe?

I’m unbeaten at dobble.

I can harmonise with most melodies.