# Mundane Pointless Super Powers That People Possess (MPSPTPP)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-pointless-super-powers-that-people-possess-mpsptpp/723690
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [June 28, 2015, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-pointless-super-powers-that-people-possess-mpsptpp/723690 "2015-06-28T12:45:46Z")
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### Author:  [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2015, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-pointless-super-powers-that-people-possess-mpsptpp/723690/1 "2015-06-28T12:45:46Z")
In the recent past 3 people that I know have exhibited interesting but hardly graphic novel worthy super powers.
One has the gift of **spotting low grade celebrities and sporting figures**. He recently noticed a guy walking near us in the street and insisted that he was a former TV actor. Later we found his picture on the web and indeed he starred in a show that the rest of us had never heard of. Not quite X-ray vision more like B-grade vision.
My brother says he is\*\* a genius at buying oranges\*\*. He claims to have never bought an orange that wasn’t sweet and juicy. None of those arid, pulpy things has ever been in his fruit bowl. A quick feel and he can tell. Almost like Daredevil with the enhanced sense of touch.
Another guy claims to be able to **detect the presence of hot women** sight unseen. More than once I have seen him suddenly interrupt a conversation to swivel in the direction of a distant attractive stranger like Radar O’Reilly responding to an as yet inaudible incoming chopper.
Anyone else have super buddies?
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2015, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-pointless-super-powers-that-people-possess-mpsptpp/723690/2 "2015-06-28T13:29:02Z")
One of my brothers has the ability to offend and repel women at a rate that is truly epic.
I, on the other hand, can pull a full set of keys out of my pocket, holding them by the key I need. I used to be able to pull exact change out of my pocket (provided I had the change in the first place), but since I switched to mostly debit card, this power doesn’t as much use.
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### Author:  [@JVDaly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JVDaly)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2015, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-pointless-super-powers-that-people-possess-mpsptpp/723690/3 "2015-06-28T13:36:24Z")
I have double-jointed thumbs.
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### Author:  [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2015, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-pointless-super-powers-that-people-possess-mpsptpp/723690/4 "2015-06-29T14:08:34Z")
I have never dropped a can of beer that was thrown to me. Friends in college would try all sorts of tricks, but I would catch every one. It was suggested to me that I might have made a good hockey goalie.
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### Author:  [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2015, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-pointless-super-powers-that-people-possess-mpsptpp/723690/5 "2015-06-29T14:19:55Z")
I’ve got a weird sense of direction and place/location. A friend and I basically left Pittsburgh at the same time headed for the same small town in Indiana. He used a Garmin and I just looked over a map quick the night before and went by feel and reading the road signs as I drove along. I beat him there by about 10 minutes.
(In interest of full disclosure I’m not as good in cities; finding x street in say Chicago. But ask me to go to Anvil Montana and I’ll just point myself west and make it in damn good time)