In what way are YOU G&T?

[MamaG]

me - buying shoes
baking
reading
looking interested

No one can put away chocolate like I can.
I know all the flavours of quality street and roses without looking at the index cards.

MB. Mostly they want me to look at them jumping off things in a range of very subtly different ways.

LOL mine are the same!

Or draw the same thing is a different shade of colour. Or do armpit farts. Actually ds is G and T at armpit farts and making a noise like a submachine gun. It makes me so proud!

Oh god I am to world's worst at looking interested - hats off MamaG!

G&T at stickle bricks and railway track layouts, shepherd's pie, music-related and book-related stuff. Also at putting my foot in it socially and looking spectacularly bored.

avoiding housework
wrapping presents
assembling football goals (just discovered that!)

Fast typing.
Heavy drinking and still looking and sounding sober.
And.... am very proud of this one.... being the only person in my family to be able to open those little plastic sachets of tomato ketchup in cafes in one smooth finger action, without using teeth or getting a drop anywhere but on the plate

Idling. Can idle away hours much better than anyone else.
I've got sleeping (mine) down to a fine art.
Don't want to blow my own trumpet, but am fantastically good at breathing. In, out, in, out, in, out. I'm a natural.

making DH think I remember the serial number of his mobile phone

(I had written it down when he was upstairs to order a new battery for it).

Time wasting. I'm World Champion, me.

I'm trying to be modest about it but I really am good at knowing what other things someone on the telly has been in. When I started going out with DH he was really amazed by the way my mum and my mates would phone up and go "Quick, Anchovy, look at BBC2 now, what has the person on the background with the pointy hat been in".

I think it was a talent I was born with, although I have honed it through training, obviously.

It does depend on how we are rating "gifted". If we are talking top 5-10% of the population, then I am definitely in. If we are talking only several per generation, I'm possibly in.

ah, but Anchovy, people now have Internet Movie Database!

Still, yes, it would have been useful to have you round my house the other day when DW and I were struggling to recall where we had seen the woman playing a police officer in an old X-Files episode. (She was Jaaaaaaaaaanice!! ehe-ehe-heeehehe! from Friends, btw.)

Bugger - my giftedness is being superceded by technology. This must be how Mr Ludd felt.

I'm very talented at being vague about TV actors -- 'You, know... the one with the hair, that was in that other thing with the one who looked like the one who played a Hobbit in Lord of the Rings...

Anchovy is the personal embodiment of IMDB though unquietdad, and therefore v. useful to old pre-internet rellies etc
I'm good at that too Anchovy (work in drama education so can sometimes even add unsavoury and salacious anecdote about Before They Were Famous) but I think my knitting abilities demand G & T status above all
Am still LOLing at MB's "tpying and speeling"

I can re-fold a map along it's original fold lines. [smug emoticon] I used to enjoy watching my father cursing at the map and then taking it from him and folding it perfectly fat in seconds.

I used to always know what was on unmarked video tapes, and how many minutes each one had left free for recording onto. Sadly technology has completely taken away this talent as we now have a dvd recorder with a hard drive.

Facebooking AND (yes AND) mumsnetting.

I have always been really good at saying whatever sarcastic comment came into my head (such as "oh yes, what a brilliant idea") in such a deadpan manner as to convince the poor deluded member of senior management I am talking to that I really am agreeing with them.

(Sadly DH (after 5 years) seems to be catching on and has started saying "are you serious or are you taking the piss - I can't tell anymore..." so perhaps the power is waning)

I'm sooo g&t in many, many useful life skills. Like being able to list the states of america in alphabetical order . That sort of thing. It makes my life so much more fuller (or is it more full, I'm crap at grammar though).

Making bread dough rise. My bread is like the Magic Porridge Pot. Sadly it's not a transferable skill as my cakes lie down on sight.

Ah Marina, but you are a Professional. I am merely a Talented (yet Gifted) Amateur!

oh i have so many gifts i know the life and times of thomas the tank engine, dora the farking explorer and star wars.
i know what my kids are going to request for dinner every night
i am highly skilled in negoiating (but crap at spelling)
i am great at filling in forms and have perfected the art of the trolly dolly smile.
my children must therefore be gifted as they have taught me all these things

I used to be G&T at reading bedtime stories to DSs whilst brain engaged elsewhere (multi tasking).

My son is ASD and people often ask if he has a special talent 'like Rainman'. My reply is always " only if farting counts".
Seriously - world class.

and having only creditted packing I have just remembered I am briliant at ironic cheering at sports event. Full back misses the tackle, knocks on, ref falls over. I am ALWAYs first on my feet
( bows graciously -thank you, You are all so kind)

baking
guessing what sex baby people are having by looking at their bumps
sleeping - I can sleep anywhere (actually with one exception which is on an aeroplance which is feckin annoying) which is bizarre because I'm a really light sleeper

Understanding what my dh is thinking when he is doing the strong silent thing.
Proof reading - can spot the tiniest of mistakes at 100 paces.
Sleeping.
Procrastinating.

Pagwatch, lol at ironic cheering