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!

I can identify a bird from a snippet of it's song.

I can make any quantity of white sauce/cheese sauce without measurements. Ditto pastry.

I can remember phone numbers from my childhood.

I can cook and synchronise three totally different meals and serve them perfectly at the same time.

Double jointed feet/toes. Can bend them over and walk on the stubs 😬. It makes people vom.

I know I'm quite strong. Lifting heavy stuff doesn't cause me concern. I like that.

Yes to wiggling ears. And the tip of my nose.

I am an excellent power napper. Never wake up groggy.

I can pack my bags at Aldi as fast as the till person can sling the shopping at me. In perfect order, with separate bags for fridge/freezer/cupboard/cleaning/veg etc. With the heaviest items at the bottom.

Speed proof reading. I am super speedy at reading and can spot a typo/irregular use of an apostrophe/spelling mistake immediately- it almost glows or shines in a different colour to my eyes.

Cooking blue and black steak. I am a chef to be fair but still. I can nail a blue and black every time.

How do I eat my steak? Blue and black, why do you ask? 😂

I’m really good at hidden objects games, which comes in useful in real life when I drop a glass that smashes to pieces or need to find a particular screw in a pile of flat pack furniture.

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

I can wriggle my right ear.

I have excellent eyesight and can read things far away before anyone else can.

I can fake tan my back.

I can bend just my finger tips. I decided as a child I wanted to be able to do this so I'd sit in class with my fingertips bent against the desk and could eventually do it. Can still do it now.

I can zone out from noise, it's quite useful.

@Wbeezer

I'm very accurate when measuring ingredients by eye when baking when i slice a chunk of butter off the block it's often spot on for weight. Q

Me too, I'm ace at slicing butter! DH is never as impressed as I am with myself

indemMUND Are you a rabbit? 🐰

I never worry about waking up for stuff and don't need an alarm clock.

One of my colleagues gets very wiggly ears when he's excited. I'm not sure he knows.

I’m very good at job interviews. This is good when I’ve gotten my perfect jobs. However, a few times I’ve gotten jobs I am way way out of depth in and had to admit I am really not going to be the right person for the job....I guess I just hoped I figure it out as I went along!

I'm really good at those maze puzzles where you have to draw a line from the start to the finish without getting lost in dead ends and doubling back on yourself. I can spot the correct route in an instant.

I can also format a mean Excel spreadsheet.

I'm very good at thinking worse case scenarios, which makes me very good at risk assessments and I love doing them. I will admit to being a bit odd.

I have very, very flexible toes. I can pick up things and write - although fairly badly - using my toes.

DH calls me 'Chimp Feet' but he's just jealous methinks. I am very proud of this skill. I did suggest to DH that if I had serial killer tendencies I could kill people using my super flexible toes to deploy various weapons and because finger prints and toe prints don't match - and the police don't routinely take toe prints - I would never be caught. He just went a bit pale and shut up.

I have a catch and throw sort of reflex.

It saved my Husband a sore head once as someone threw a ball of ice across a pub in his direction, I caught it and lobbed it back in a split second without thinking about it.

Thank god it didn’t hit anyone, but DH said it looked like something from the Terminator.

I can touch-type at 80wpm and I love the fact emails take me seconds to clear...

@CrayonInThreeBits

Oh, and I can see spelling/punctuation errors in a page of text without reading it — they kind of stand out, as though they're in an almost-imperceptibly different colour.

Same. It's both good and bad. I do get very annoyed at some spelling errors.

I can tell when people are lying from body language etc. It's just so blantently obvious to me, I can't understand why others can't see it.

I pull DH and the teen DCs on white lies and they just go "but how do you KNOW???"

I just do.

*blatantly

Timings. I am in within 10 seconds ever time for the oven.

I can look at a week’s worth of shopping and tell you the price, give or take £3.

100 wpm shorthand

Wiggly ears, spready toes...

Ability to recognize if things are lining up properly eg a painting is hanging straight, where folds need to happen to give correct sizes for paper, lining up items. I think it’s because I have no stereo vision/limited depth perception so I naturally measure things up against each other

@lljkk

One of my colleagues gets very wiggly ears when he's excited. I'm not sure he knows.

I have learned to wiggle my ears and can wiggle them independently of each other on command. I don't know why I learned how to do this. I can also turn my tongue upside down to either side.