Mama didn't raise no fool!

[meresal]

What ability do you posess, that you feel sets you apart from others around you?

 

[soocool]

I have great organizational powers! I can clean and organize anyone's house in a heartbeat/

 

[Gypsy]

I have great organizational powers! I can clean and organize anyone's house in a heartbeat/

If you can be here at my house at on the 17th I will pay you whatever you want for 8 hours of your time.

I don't know what my 'superpower'... I can evaluate other people's relationships (having met them in person) and tell you if I think if it's going to last or not with pretty good accuracy.

 

[meresal]

Soocool... I could use some of that. I can organize... my problem is, it only lasts for about a two days... then stuff is everywhere again.

I forgot to add mine:
I realized that I have an innate ability to be able to tell if I am being taken or not. Salesman don't stand a chance against me.

(This came to light over the last week, as I have been in and out of car dealerships!)

 

[rhbgirl24]

Mine is I have the uncanny ability to empathize with other people. I feel what they feel and I worry about it. Sometimes its good - I can always help with an issue and I'm a good moderator, and sometimes its bad!

 

[dragonfly411]

I can ride a horse

I can hunt for my dinner

I can rig a fishing pole, bait it and catch my own fish for dinner

I went through girl scouts, so I can do basic sewing, light a fire from virtually nothing (I'm better than most guys at getting a fire going), tell how to get to places by the stars or the moss growing or other small signs.

I can read animal tracks.

 

[lulu66]

i'm a great listener & a pretty damn good problem solver. but i'm easily annoyed when people come to me w/their problems, i listen, offer my (ahem, correct advice), and then watch them blunder the situation again & again. because people always do what they are going to do.

oh, and as for "abilities" my mom & i share e.s.p. (i swear!). we are very in tune w/each other & often call on the phone & the other will say "i had the phone in my hand to call you." happens to us all the time. we can sense each others moods across the country before we've spoken. can anyone else do this?

 

[AGBF]

I have great organizational powers! I can clean and organize anyone's house in a heartbeat/

And I can undo it.

Deb

 

[jstarfireb]

My musical abilities...I'm a classically trained singer, and I play 2 instruments (but singing is the main activity for me).

 

[megumic]

I have great toe-grabbing abilities. DH hates it, since sometimes I crab his legs in bed

 

[packrat]

Um..I'm a good pincher. I honed and perfected my skill on the underside of my husbands arms when he irritates me.

I'm very empathetic.

 

[HollyS]

I can know - - whether we actually meet, or I just lay eyes on you - - if you are genuine, phony, nutso, or even comfortable in your own skin.

I've never been wrong. It completely amazes my husband.

Example: We had a neighbor next door at our last home. First time we saw her walking her dog I told my husband that she was cuckoo for CocoPuffs. First glance. Never spoke to her. Sure enough, it didn't take long to find out she was completely bonkers. So nuts she scared the beejesus out of my A/C repair guy. His comment was "She needs help, don't you think?" Yep. I coulda told ya that. With just one look.

 

[AGBF]

I can know - - whether we actually meet, or I just lay eyes on you - - if you are genuine, phony, nutso, or even comfortable in your own skin.

Holly-How about when you can't see the person...as with an Internet poster?

Deb

 

[Siamese Kitty]

I can "MacGyver" anything. Literally anything. Fix a coffee pot with a fork, check. Old roll of wedding tulle, makeshift screen. I can almost always find a creative (and often hilarious) solution to many of life's inconveniences. I believe I may have also been the pioneer of the thong as a hairtie in a pinch. (they were clean. ) This is the thing about myself I think I'm most proud of because it seems to represent practical smarts.

Pretty good judge of character and decent at reading people. I really like listening to/helping others with problems, and my intuition is often pretty good.

Home improvement-paint, tile, fix a toilet, handy in general. My mom was a single parent, so I was the "helper" in any type of repair/renovation project.

Edit-forgot punctuation

 

[HollyS]

I can know - - whether we actually meet, or I just lay eyes on you - - if you are genuine, phony, nutso, or even comfortable in your own skin.

Holly-How about when you can't see the person...as with an Internet poster?

Deb

It's harder to get a bead on a poster, because there aren't any visual clues. So, no. It won't work in quite the same way. We get to know each other through our posts, and we can be pretty sure of character, (and character flaws ). But it is a gradual 'knowing'.

 

[anitabee]

i'm unusually flexible. ever since i was a little kid. just born with it, i guess.

i'm an excellent speller.

 

[iLander]

I can know - - whether we actually meet, or I just lay eyes on you - - if you are genuine, phony, nutso, or even comfortable in your own skin.

I've never been wrong. It completely amazes my husband.

Example: We had a neighbor next door at our last home. First time we saw her walking her dog I told my husband that she was cuckoo for CocoPuffs. First glance. Never spoke to her. Sure enough, it didn't take long to find out she was completely bonkers. So nuts she scared the beejesus out of my A/C repair guy. His comment was "She needs help, don't you think?" Yep. I coulda told ya that. With just one look.

I would love a "read" on my new DIL, I can't figure her out! I am willing to post a picture of her. Can you read that?

 

[iLander]

I find things. If you lose your keys or you need that CD that you lost two years ago somewhere in the house, I can find it. Store something in one of the 55 boxes in the garage about 17 years ago? I can find it. I will also find odd things in odd places; shark's teeth in driveway gravel, antique glass buried in the yard. IF something is there, even if I don't know about it, I will find it.

My DH can read the pictures in your head. This is extremely annoying around Christmas, because he will ask what you got him for a present, and you picture the present (involuntarily), and he will instantly know what it is. The family has all learned to think of pretty much anything else when DH starts to peer at you.

 

[iLander]

I have great organizational powers! I can clean and organize anyone's house in a heartbeat/

PLEASE come visit me! Room and board in exchange!

 

[Matata]

I have an uncanny ability to judge character & personality which was really useful in my HR career.

 

[Miss Sparkly]

I'm psychic Okay, not really. But people seem to think so. I'm so good at reading people IRL, they're motions, decisions, moods etc that I can predict what they will be doing that weekend or what's going to happen down the road. I knew that my department manager was leaving to go to another department long before she, or my coworkers in the department knew. The signs made it plain as day in my eyes

 

[somethingshiny]

I don't think my abilities set me apart. Maybe I'm drawn to people who are much like me? I'm a great DIYer and am also a pretty good at substitutional repairs. I'm an excellent judge of character. I can ride a horse, drive a tractor, scale a silo, and put my legs behind my head. Both my sisters and one of my closest friends can all do those things too. 2 more of my friends can do all but the flexibility.


If I could fly a plane, that would set me a part... Or owned a yacht...... Well, my diamonds are bigger!!

 

[DivaDiamond007]

I can touch my tongue to my nose

 

[manderz]

I'm handy around the house. Since we bought our house, all of the cosmetic projects, and most of the necessary projects have been my doing, sometimes with or without help.

I'm an awesome planner. Not sure where I get it though, because the rest of my family likes to procrastinate. You need a huge project done in 2 weeks? I'll make a list for you of what to do and when to do it, and if you slack, my type A personality will have no problem getting it done for you, possibly ahead of schedule.

I'm a very logical thinker. Almost to a fault. My friends come to me for advice, and I'm a great listener, but sometimes I offer too much advice, when all they wanted to do was rant, and not fix the problem.

 

[somethingshiny]

I can touch my tongue to my nose

yes! That is one thing I can do that no one else can do! They make fun of me for it. My mom can lick her elbow!

 

[meresal]

SS- I am sure that you have an innate ability that no one around you posesses. Something that involves raising kids or dealing with everyday life?

Though I love your little quirky ones. Ha. I can touch my tounge to my nose as well.

 

[Dancing Fire]

I can know - - whether we actually meet, or I just lay eyes on you - - if you are genuine, phony, nutso, or even comfortable in your own skin.

I've never been wrong. It completely amazes my husband.

Example: We had a neighbor next door at our last home. First time we saw her walking her dog I told my husband that she was cuckoo for CocoPuffs. First glance. Never spoke to her. Sure enough, it didn't take long to find out she was completely bonkers. So nuts she scared the beejesus out of my A/C repair guy. His comment was "She needs help, don't you think?" Yep. I coulda told ya that. With just one look.

Holly
can you tell if one is a conservative or liberal just by looking at em?...

 

[jstarfireb]

I can touch my tongue to my nose

Oooh, me too! And my joints are unnaturally flexible, to the point that I freak people out with my party tricks.

 

[Circe]

I have a blowtorch, and I know how to use it, for anything from lighting cigarettes to cooking deserts to making jewelry.

I rock-climb. I've done it in heels.

I have a chin-up bar, and I taught myself to pull my legs up and over as well (on the off-chance of ever inadvertently finding myself in an action movie - I read too many comic books in my teens).

I have a freakish ability to predict where any narrative storyline is going, to the point where it freaks my husband out to watch movies/shows with me - I'd give examples, but I wouldn't want to spoil you.

I speed-read: have since I was a kid. 400 pages in three hours isn't unusual.

I am a bee-charmer: in my youth, I was always the one to shake my finger at the other kids and tell them not to wig over the bees, who were noble and hardworking and not particularly hostile; almost every time, the bee in question would alight on said finger and fly off peacefully, like a little demonstration of goodwill.

I am largely impervious to mass quantities of alcohol, but one cup of coffee after noon will leave me unable to sleep all night ... and I'm apparently the 1% on the 100% who gets the side-effects on prescription drugs.

And, atop all that, I'm an excellent list-maker.

 

[monarch64]

Erm...I can do anything you can do better.... (to music, of course!)

But seriously: I am great at figuring things out like car parts, watch parts, any little intricasy. I have always been able to take things apart and put them back together accurately faster than peers. Same goes for my brother, who got his first car at age 13. He took it apart ('72 Chevy Nova) in one summer and put it back together again and had it running FAST in those 2.5 months.

I can eyeball a piece of music (Flight of the Bumblebee, anyone?) and play it after practicing just a few times, same day. (Piano, but can hear accompaniments).

I can spell! And edit!

I can merchandise the SHIZ out of any random department in a retail store, whether it's clothing, jewelry, motorcycle parts.

I can listen to any person and let them know that they are wanted/loved/invited anytime, anyday, because that is truly how I feel about them.

My biggest joy in life is the last thing I listed.

Take care, all, and all of my love to you.