Barb_ Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I've been stressing myself out tonight, so help me start a frivolous thread I can look forward to opening tomorrow evening. What can you do that is weird or unusual? I've managed to train myself to fluently write upside down and backwards so that I can face a child and yet write so that it looks correct to her. It's normal to us but it freaks out other people when they notice. I also recently found out I can still stand on my head. My kids were pretty impressed :D What can you do? 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carrie12345 Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I can break simple codes faster than my kids and dh. I doubt it's any kind of extraordinary talent in the greater population, but it managed to impress my family! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pegs Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I can read aloud to my DS and browse text-based web content simultaneously. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa in Australia Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I don't think I have any talent, or maybe it is so hidden that I haven't found it yet. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie_0801 Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I don't think I have any talent, or maybe it is so hidden that I haven't found it yet. Domestic Goddess doesn't run in my family... I wouldn't know if I have unusual talents. I think if I can do something, everyone else can too. I maintain this mindset regardless of evidence to the contrary, so I can't even think of examples where that has happened. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pod's mum Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I can tie down a load with proper truckie hitches. It almost always impresses blokes. Sad, but true 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikiSC Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I can spot messes & clutter that the rest of my family can't. I can also put trash IN the trash can, and I even notice when the can is full🙊. As far as actual talent...I'm not sure. I do have the ability to creatively stretch our money as far as I can. 25 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Girls' Mom Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I can drive a stick shift....which apparently is a rare thing these days...lol. I can also handle/kill/relocate bugs, snakes, reptiles and rodents without batting an eye ;) 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mama Geek Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I can captain a 36 foot sailboat. I can also put a boat on a trailer out of the water and back a truck and trailer up to the boat ramp. I know others can do these things, but it does impress some guys. I can drive stick shift too. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
creekland Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I can think of everything I need to be doing - or have done - while I'm in the car and have no chance of actually doing it. I'm not sure how rare that is though. 18 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris in VA Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I can make my eyeballs shake back and forth. This came in handy when I was younger and felt uncomfortable looking people in the eye. It blurs my vision. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Girls' Mom Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I can make my eyeballs shake back and forth. This came in handy when I was younger and felt uncomfortable looking people in the eye. It blurs my vision. My husband and oldest daughter can do that. It freaks people out. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunflowerlady Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I have special vision. I can see things that other in my family can't see. It's amazing, really. Dh looks for something in the kitchen. He asks me where it is. I tell him, He can't see it. I tell him to keep looking, it is there. He swears he doesn't see it. I get up from whatever I am doing, go in there and look. I see it!!!!! When I show him, he looks confused. It is a real talent! 27 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happypamama Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I can recall entirely esoteric details from the past. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFSinIL Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I can juggle. I can also get any splinter out of you. I have had grown neighbors come to my door asking ME to remove splinters. I am that good at it. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmasc Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I can spot messes & clutter that the rest of my family can't. I can also put trash IN the trash can, and I even notice when the can is full🙊. As far as actual talent...I'm not sure. I do have the ability to creatively stretch our money as far as I can. Can I assume you also have the amazing talent of putting dirty clothes IN the hamper, and not BESIDE the hamper? ;) 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeaConquest Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I can name a song in just a couple of notes. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NicksMama-Zack's Mama Too Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I have special vision. I can see things that other in my family can't see. It's amazing, really. Dh looks for something in the kitchen. He asks me where it is. I tell him, He can't see it. I tell him to keep looking, it is there. He swears he doesn't see it. I get up from whatever I am doing, go in there and look. I see it!!!!! When I show him, he looks confused. It is a real talent! I share this talent too. My hubby attributes it to my magical ovaries. Since I'm the only female in the house, I'm the only one with this superpower! Lol. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PinkTulip Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I can ski just about any double black diamond run you throw at me. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Critterfixer Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I can pill a cat. I am quite accomplished at pilling cats. I can usually figure out what an animal wants from me after a few seconds of "the stare" beginning. I also make a fine cheesecake. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happi duck Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Well there's this lipstick thing I learned at camp in seventh grade... ;) 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Word Nerd Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I can lick my elbow. I can't remember what I read or heard that led to my discovery of this amazing talent. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mabeline Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I can lick my elbow.My boys were just trying this the other day. They declared it impossible. Lol, they would be very impressed. I can pick up small objects with my feet. It amuses dh to no end. I also have the special vision thing of finding and seeing objects in plain view. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Word Nerd Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I can also touch my nose with my tongue, but who wants to do that? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hikin' Mama Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I have special vision. I can see things that other in my family can't see. It's amazing, really. Dh looks for something in the kitchen. He asks me where it is. I tell him, He can't see it. I tell him to keep looking, it is there. He swears he doesn't see it. I get up from whatever I am doing, go in there and look. I see it!!!!! When I show him, he looks confused. It is a real talent! I have this too! I tell my male family members that it's because I have two X chromosomes and they only have one. When my daughter can't find something, I say, "Lean into your X chromosomes, girl!" I can kill spiders with my bare hands. I can walk on my knees. I get into what I think is called a Full Lotus in yoga and then I get up on my knees and walk across the floor. I probably should join a circus. Ha ha ha! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firefly Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I can hula hoop like.. forever. Really. It's like walking to me and I can just do it for as long as I want to. I even won a contest once at an 80's party. The Mini I drive is a manual and yeah, I guess that really is an unusual talent these days! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-rap Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I can make my eyeballs shake back and forth. This came in handy when I was younger and felt uncomfortable looking people in the eye. It blurs my vision. My husband can do that! I've never known anyone else who can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-rap Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I can plan a really fun trip -- airfares, hotels, things to do -- in less than an hour 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DesertBlossom Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I can kill spiders with my bare hands. :huh: :crying: :ack2: I think you win! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littlebug42 Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Without them uttering a word, I can tell which child is walking down the stairs. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plansrme Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I can parallel park. I can find any object lost by anyone in my house (I never lose things). I can shut down bullying men. I am sitting at a baseball game right now and made the other team's really obnoxious coach shut up. Not my first time, either. I also am really, really good at figuring out what is really going on based on incredibly tiny snippets of information. It amazes my family. And terrifies them. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5of5 Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I can shut down bullying men. I am sitting at a baseball game right now and made the other team's really obnoxious coach shut up. Not my first time, either. Just curious --- do you have a particular technique, or is it some innate personality trait? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plansrme Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Just curious --- do you have a particular technique, or is it some innate personality trait? It freaks them out when a mom stands up to them, as best as I can tell. Keeping my mouth shut is not really my strong suit. Well, to be honest, it is not even a suit I own. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I have an awesome mommy voice. I've used it in business and other complicated situations. It works. (It's a polite mommy voice.) 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AK_Mom4 Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I have 5 "99s" and a quest cape in Runescape. Yep, even after the 200th quest! It's not much of a talent, but still impresses the heck out of my kid's friends when they find out. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LucyStoner Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I can gauge immediately if something will fit into a space or not. Very handy for loading car trunks or buying used furniture. Sometimes my husband or father will try to load something and I will have said, not going to work and I am always right. Another common thing is my dad repeating over and over "that's not all going to fit Kate" and me loading it all in just fine and turning to him and saying, "dad, please tell me one single time I have said something would fit in the car and it didn't?" When I was younger I could also throw things with great accuracy. I'm guessing that is something that fades with not practicing a lot. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MomtoCandJ Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Fall upstairs, choke on air and my own spit. Otherwise nothing :D 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amira Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I can completely unpack from a move in less than 24 hours. The last one took 12. I can walk into a street market filled with food I don't know the name of or recognize and come out with something to make for dinner without saying anything useful to anyone. And dinner will taste good. I am a street foodie. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinder Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 If we're counting driving a stick shift, then I'll count that too. And I can still parallel park, which has come in handy more than once in our own driveway but almost nowhere else anymore. I can twist my tongue upside-down in both directions. Dd can twist hers one direction but not the other. But she can wiggle her ears; I can't. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenny in Florida Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I often know when women are pregnant and when couples are getting married before they have announced the news. I also drive a stick shift, which I wouldn't have thought of as unusual enough to mention, but, hey, I'll take the credit for it if others are doing so. And I parallel park pretty well. So, ditto on claiming that one. I bake vegan-friendly cookies, cupcakes and such that even omnivores think taste good. I can read information like titles and authors' names by "looking" at images of the covers in my mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenny in Florida Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I can figure out what dh is talking about when it is complete nonsense. I swear the man is in the beginning stages of Alzheimer's! Oh, boy, I didn't think of that one! Yep, I can name the movie or play or actor or song my husband is thinking of even when he has almost every fact in his description wrong. I also read upside down pretty fluently, which comes in handy when I'm tutoring and sitting across the table from my students. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I can pick up a native accent within minutes of hearing a foreign language. I can drive a stick. I am a master at improvising in emergencies with only whatever I have on hand. (Thanks USMC!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKL Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Fix things without any training. Balance numbers to the penny. ;) Read in foreign languages, including non-Roman alphabets (getting rusty though as it's been years since I've practiced). Read all those weird scrambled-up messages almost as fast as normal print. Fit a lot of stuff into small spaces - and be able to get it back out efficiently. Think of (and sing) an actual song that uses almost any casual phrase I hear throughout the day. Imitate voices and accents. Bend my fingers back really far. Twist my tongue into unusual shapes. Sit down on the floor and stand up again without using my hands for support. Get into "Lotus position" without using my hands to position my legs. Stick my tongue up my nose from inside. (I know, gross.) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MomtoCandJ Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Oh got another one, makes sense of directions for Walmart furniture and put it together. I can do a bookshelf without instructions in less than 30 minutes with a 6 and 1 year old "helping" me. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RebeccaS Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I can change an empty roll of toilet paper. Other than that...I've got nothing. I'm pretty boring. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnTheBrink Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I can tell my cats by their meow. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandylubug Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I can pick up most objects with my toes I also am a pro at burning beans in a crockpot 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lang Syne Boardie Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I have a Dear Abby face. Perfect strangers in public places (and in inappropriate situations) will tell me their whole life story and ask my advice. I must look as if I was born to smile and nod with sympathy. It's genetic; my mother has the same gift/curse. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lang Syne Boardie Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I also am a pro at burning beans in a crockpot Come sit by me. Another famous talent of mine is my complete inability to bake chocolate chip cookies. Any other cookie is not really a problem but I can't do chocolate chip. All four of my children, ages 10 and up, are normal and can bake them so they do it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I have a Dear Abby face. Perfect strangers in public places (and in inappropriate situations) will tell me their whole life story and ask my advice. I must look as if I was born to smile and nod with sympathy. It's genetic; my mother has the same gift/curse. Give outlandish advice, secretly record their reactions and start your own YouTube channel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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