# Heretofore unknown super-powers of persuasion

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 26, 2014, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heretofore-unknown-super-powers-of-persuasion/696582 "2014-08-26T20:12:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![CT\_Damsel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CT\_Damsel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CT_Damsel)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heretofore-unknown-super-powers-of-persuasion/696582/1 "2014-08-26T20:12:34Z")

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Today I was waiting to make a right to leave the grocery store parking lot. There was an extremely long line of traffic coming from the left. I started singing “Someone let me out” No specific tune but in the style of Rogers and Hammerstein. I may have been channeling John Raitt 😃

A vehicle stopped to let me out! :eek: My cars windows were closed; no one could have heard me.

The next traffic signal was red; I was eighth in line. This is a notorious 2.5 car green light. I knew there was no way I would get through the light. When it changed to green I began singing “Come on men we must make it through!” Woo Hoo it was a yellow arrow but I made it!

So did you have any new powers today?

What else should I sing for?

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**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heretofore-unknown-super-powers-of-persuasion/696582/2 "2014-08-26T21:17:26Z")

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Weirdest thing, I was out checkin’ my garden and I thought to myself, “I need to call up Nancy and arrange to get over to her neighbors house and harvest all those Cascade hops they ain’t using”. 3 minutes later, Nancy drives up the drive way with some stuff for the wife, but the wife is down the street. We have a chat and I give her some produce, let her play with the dogs and then send her on her way.

I start folding laundry and think, “Ah, Shit! I forgot to ask Nancy about those chicken cages she wants to get rid of.” 3 minutes later, up drives Nancy again, this time with the wife. Creepy!

> [@CT\_Damsel](#):
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> So did you have any new powers today?
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> What else should I sing for?

I’d sing for money. That’s what I want.