I can blow bubbles out of my mouth that float through the air and eventually land, using nothing but the spit in my mouth. I can even do this in rapid succession, like a machine gun of saliva bubbles.
I’ve always considered this to be my “super power”. Obviously it’s not going to really do much for me, but it’s a fairly unique skill, I didn’t learn it from anyone else, and it really seems to amaze/gross people out when they see it.
So, how about you? Do you have any mundane super powers?
Dense bones. Really, I have been tested by the Army and my private doctor and my bones are about 25% denser than average.
I survived being thrown out of a moving vehicle at 55 mph, landed on the asphalt, and broke no bones. This was witnessed by a state trooper who measured my movement after exiting the vehicle to about 135 ft. Muscles tore, cartilage snapped but bones were ok.
Holy moly! I hardly call that “mundane” but thanks for sharing! That is SO much better than my bubble-blowing ability.
Apparently, the ability to make others start threads just by thinking about the topic!
drewtwo99 needs a video, and Lanzy must have a story behind that.
Umm… I have the ability to summon waitstaff. I simply stuff a bunch of food in my mouth, and I can only reply “mmph-mmmh!” when they ask how everything is. They are nowhere to be seen if I am able to talk. Pretty… worthless.
You are David Dunn and I claim my £5.
I’d happily settle for the Lanzy video.
You know, I’ve tried to capture the bubble blowing on video but it just doesn’t work out. The lighting or resolution is wrong, or the ISO or something… they just don’t show up 
Sadly you’ll have to take my word for it.
I can slip into the tiniest parking space with just one try, at a pretty good speed. Zip, zip — Bob’s your uncle, with 20cm in front and behind my car (Toyota Echo–it’s really short).
I get excellent spaces that no one else will even try to fit into.
“Stand back, everyone. This is a job for Parallel Peter Parker!”
I don’t get hangovers. Even after being barfdrunk.
I drink pretty rarely, though. I have decided that this power must be used responsibly.
Oh, wow… I know everyone hates a “me too” but I actually have this same super power. And like you, I rarely drink, especially to the point of barf drunk. But yeah… never ever a hangover.
According to wikipedia, 25-30% of people are resistant to hangovers. I wonder what percent are entirely immune?
That’s an awesome power. I wish I had that. I’m not bad at parallel parking like some people, but I’m certainly not that good.
I have the superhuman ability to do better than average on multiple-choice tests even without studying beforehand. It’s like the correct answer almost glows.
I’ve had to discourage my son from trying to use this power, because he has apparently NOT inherited it.
I have a special sense for when timers are about to go off. I’ll be in the living room, suddenly thinking that it’s been an awful long time since I set that timer in the kitchen. It invariably goes off while I’m thinking it or turns out to have less than a minute to go. So yeah, pretty useless.
I can determine when a Tony’s frozen pizza is ready to come out of the oven by smell.
I don’t know how I acquired this amazing ability but it has come in very handy. When my boys were teens they frequently forgot when they put a pizza in the oven. Mom to the rescue!
And I can come pretty close with biscuits and bread, too.
Ugh! I have the exact OPPOSITE of this super power, in the sense that I always feel it’s about to go off or should have gone off, but it still has PLENTY of time left. So my brain has adjusted over the years to try to suppress that feeling… and even suppress actually HEARING the timer sometimes.
“Hey! I never heard this timer go off? How long has my pizza been in the oven! Oh noooo!!!”
So… your super power might not be so useless!
I have loose joints in my thumbs and can bend them all the way in any direction. It freaks people out when I show them. :eek:
My thumbs bend about 25% more than most people’s thumbs do. I could be kickass hitchhiker.
It’s actually a genetic thing, the more science-y name is distal hyperextensibility of the thumb. It’s a real thing, look here. This is not my thumb, but mine look just like that.
Did you see my post before you posted this? Or was this one ODD-ass coincidence (one minute between posts)??
Holy crap. You posted while I was typing and finding a pic to use. Thumbs up to both us!! :p:p
:dubious: I don’t buy it. Sorry, but it’s statistically impossible.
I can whistle perfectly in melody. If you wanted someone to replicate the whistling in Billy Joel’s Stranger or The Scorpions Winds of Change, I’d be your man.
