Does anyone else have a useless power?

[Dunawake]

@Pithy Moniker

I can usually tell if a television is on even if the sound is all the way down and there’s no picture by listening for a high pitched sound. I will try to use this power for good before I lose hearing in that frequency range.

I share this power, and my god is it ever annoying.

[Kricket]

@lobstermobster

I can find a four leaf clover in two seconds without even really looking that hard. I’ll have people challenge me in the same area of grass and I’ll find about 5 before they ever even find one. The other day I was literally speed walking to work and I quickly saw one when I looked down and snagged it. I don’t have good vision either. Nor am I Irish.

My youngest daughter can do that! It’s wild, anywhere we go she will find as many as you want her to in a matter of minutes.
I have found maybe three in my 35 years.

[lobstermobster]

@Kricket

My youngest daughter can do that! It’s wild, anywhere we go she will find as many as you want her to in a matter of minutes.
I have found maybe three in my 35 years.

I wonder why this is. I really do. I’ve been able to do it my whole life. I have literally tested myself against several friends. I’ll find up to 500% more than others if they even find a single one. We should have some sort of club.

[Infovore]

I can turn off street lights in my vicinity.

I’m a synesthete, so I see letters and numbers in color.

I have “Simon the Likable” (from the old Get Smart series) syndrome–I don’t know if I have an honest face, or what, but people tend to trust me (which is weird, since I’m an introvert and not much of a people person–though I am very trustworthy). I’m very good at telling when people are bored, unhappy, or otherwise not engaged in the conversation–or when they don’t like me or want me around.

[jellyblue]

@TokyoPlayer

Picking stocks, I can buy high and sell low. Taught me the trick of mutial funds.

This hardly seems useless. Is your email in your profile?

[Sublight]

Cold-blooded vertebrates seem to like me. Whenever I’m somewhere with turtles or lizards, they gradually start wandering over to stare at me. They could just be looking for handouts, but they don’t seem to do it for other people. Maybe I’m the only one who likes turtles and lizards enough to sit and watch them that long.

In the pet stores, though, it gets very strange. I was walking among the tanks of fish, and while the little ones all ignored me, the bigger ones (like about meatball-sized and up) suddenly all fixed on me. When I stood by one side of a tank, the half-dozen or so giant mutant goldfish all crowded up against the corner to stare at me, then all slowly followed along the tank wall as I walked to the opposite side, then slowly followed me back when I walked the other way. The other large fish all behaved pretty much the same way.

[Yumblie]

@Flutterby

My not-so-useless power is that I can walk quite silently and often surprise people by ‘sneaking up’ on them. I thought I was making plenty of noise…

I apparently have this power too. I suppose once I become a secret agent, this will be useful. For now it’s a bit unnerving to walk up to someone and say “Hi” and have them jump and gasp that I just scared the crap out of them.

[Beware_of_Doug]

I seem to be quite attractive to women over the age of 60. (I’m 40 and look sort of lost.)

I also have a 100% success rate pegging anachronistic typeface usage in period movies. The best of them routinely screw this up.

[Silence_of_the_clams]

I have the power of always picking the slowest queue wherever I am :eek:

I therefore have also developed a second power, the power of not exploding when the old lady with shaking hands and wrong glasses in front is paying with small change from her copious coinpurse, repeatedly eying the clerk behind the counter in deep suspicion that she is handing over too much coin whilst making smacking noises with her dentures.

Or, when the pregnant lady in front with four kids is unloading a full trolley while her kids are dropping things to the floor so that they have to go back into the store to get a new item and the clerk behind the counter looses control over how many items went through the beeper and they have to beep everything all over again.

Or, … no I’ll stop there. I’ll just mellow over here.

Where’d the mellow smiley go?

Ummmm…

[Engineer_Dude]

I have the power to relate everything people say or anything that happens to me to either a Simpsons episode, a Dilbert cartoon, or a Pete Townshend lyric.