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!

@2020canfuckitself

I make the best roast potatoes

Oh no you don't!

I can make it fit.

From the food shop in an already full freezer to the suitcase full of clothes to my bosses storage unit when picking up a pop-up store.
I can look at a space and make it fit.

I'm also a beast at Tetris.

And opening doors with my feet when carrying something. I'm ya gal.

I can smell pee at a distance, whether its a wet knickers situation or a not waggled properly one.

I cannot however pick up some wine and explain its scent of blueberries and summer evenings.

@Catonaroof

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

I would really like this skill! The leaflet is there every bloody time.

I often stop reading randomly in the middle of a page/paragraph. Next time I pick the book up I always automatically start reading from the same place.

I have cross-dominance, people think it means I'm a bit kinky, it actually means that I use a different hand for different tasks, I write with my right but any cutting, peeling is done with my left, something no-one noticed, including me, until I was about 15! When picking something up I tend to use my left, when I used to bother ironing I could use either which was quite handy.

I know how to show submission when confronted with an angry chimpanzee. Not that I've ever needed to do so.

If someone makes a personal call to my landline, I can sometimes tell their mood before they speak without knowing who they are.

I always know when I’m being lied to, whether by a DP or a stranger over the phone. Bit of a double-edged sword that one, I’m very cynical.

@Thelnebriati

indemMUND Are you a rabbit? 🐰

My Dsis pointed out the nose tip wiggling when I sang as a child. I was mortified about it, then years later realised I can do it anytime I like. I like to sit with DD and drift into silence until she notices I'm wiggling the tip of my nose. It annoys the hell out of her. She's 9 and I think it's hilarious.

Can tell you the size of an area or a room without measuring it.

Make an excellent chilli even though I’ve never eaten one.

I can spell, and I can park a car, and I can pack a car for a holiday and get everything in - it's like Tetris...which I'm also good at

Oh and song lyrics. I can get 90% of songs from the intro

I'm really good at catching things. It's weird because I couldn't catch to save my life as a kid. Then at some point in my twenties I suddenly found that I'd got the skill. My husband finds it really annoying and throws things at me when I'm not expecting (to try and catch me out, no pun intended!) and I'll just catch it, one handed, like a ninja!!

Reverse parking
Knowing when the washing cycle is about to stop, no matter what programme it's on.

I can parse a sentence.
I invented a recipe for a triple lemon layer cake. Its deliciousness is acknowledged by everyone who has tried it.

I make the best lasagna. So good my Italian friend said it tasted like her nanas.

If someone tells me they have big news to share I seem to know what it is before they actually tell me. I don't think it's woo, I must be picking up on something but sometimes the news is so random people find it a bit spooky.

I'm a time knower too but I put this down to observing changing light through the day at different times of year.

I can fold anything neatly.

I can also recognise songs from just the first note.

Another, I always know when I am going to.win a raffle. I just know. In my head, and my heart, I just know.

I can also cook rice using the evaporation method without weighing/measuring rice/water, but I didn't know that there was another way of doing it.

My biggest, but most underwhelming skill though, after thinking about all these, is to talk absolute crap, for ages, and engage others in talking absolute crap with me. Honestly, hours will disappear from your day and you will achieve nothing, if we start talking.

I'm good at finding stuff but also quite good at losing stuff so that one kind of balances itself out

I have epic patience for untangling Christmas lights

Exceptionally good at making conversation and therefore getting myself out of sticky situations when I’m probably in the wrong also somehow always end up being offered freebies without asking or hinting!

I am the only person in our family who can solve a Rubik's cube. I'm not very fast (2-3 minutes?), but I can do it.

Key skill .....

Another speed reader and spelling/punctuation spotter.

I touch-type very fast and sometimes have an audience watching me type at work (most of my office colleagues are two-finger typists).

I can remember committee discussions and final outcomes for years so am often the go-to person if someone needs to check on something.

Given these skills I should probably work in admin but I don't

Can usually cut cheese and butter accurately. Can cut really thin, even cheese slices.

Can't recognise faces or catch anything though - would love to be able to do those

I can get a nasal swab in a good 4 inches up my nose, but only in my right nostril.

Balance. Can do any yoga balancepose, or gymnastics or put a book on my head etc I won’t wobble or fall.

Yeah, I can also type on my iPhone with my eyes closed, attaining 99% accuracy. Older people generally get freaked out that I can look away from my phone and still type