Strange abilities you seem to have

I (and sometimes my wife) can walk into any empty business establishment–at any time of day–and within 20 minutes the place will be packed. I don’t think it’s the same people every time.

I can make it rain by starting to shop at Walmart. Maybe Target. The bigger the haul/the farther away I’m parked, the harder and longer the downpour.

Mystify us.

I can make a bar or restaurant be out of any beer just by ordering it!

Whenever I am looking for something, it is always in the last place I look. This never fails, it occurs with 100% certainty. There has not been a single instance in my life, when I found something and then kept on looking for it in additional places, only to discover that it was not in the last place I looked, but ina preceding place…

Most people will keep you awake by talking. I can put most anyone fast to sleep in record time.

I can make airline travel plans go wrong almost every single round-trip. I have had my bags lost permanently so many times (7 so far) that the airlines accused me of fraud. That is mere child’s play compared to the number of times that my bags have been lost for just a day to a week though. I lost count at this point but it is well over 30. I just assume that any bag I check isn’t actually going to arrive with me and plan accordingly. I am rarely disappointed at some point during a given round-trip.

That is just one inconvenience though. I am lucky if I even get to my destination within a few days of when I planned to. I have spent Christmas Eve in godforsaken places twice because of emergency diversions due to weather and lots of other times due to mechanical malfunctions.

I have told friends and coworkers about my terrible history with various airlines and they think I am exaggerating until they decide to fly with me then their luggage gets lost too or the plane breaks down then they begin to truly understand the power of the curse.

I am not scared of flying at all. I just accepted it as my reality a long time ago and learned to plan for it. I am always pleasantly surprised when my bags show up on time and the plane makes it to the destination listed on the ticket the same day it is supposed to because that hasn’t been the norm for me.

I have done so many things that the SDMB says can’t be done that now I don’t think I have ever done anythijng. I am not even sure I exist.

I also somewhat suffer like Shagnasty does but I fixed that one, if I am not wearing it, it does not go. I got all my wrong destinations, wrong day, Rut Rows all done back in my ARMY days. Civil aviation does not even try to mess with that part, It can’t compete & knows it, just bags & I solved that one.

So I have done something unless the SDMB says it is impossible. Then I am back to where I was …

I can make objects completely disappear, simply by thinking about looking for them. They then reappear in plain sight when I look for something else. Sometimes I can fool my talent by pretending that I’m looking for something else, but it doesn’t work very well.

I can turn a gray sky blue
I can make it rain when I want it to
I can build a castle from a single grain of sand
I can make a ship sail on dry land

He’s a poet & don’t know it. :smiley:

So can anyone.
It’s called “running onto the rocks”.

As a former sailboat owner, I can assure you that once you’ve run onto the rocks you are definitely no longer sailing. :wink:

You WILL respect The Temptations–they bumped The Archies outta the #1 spot.

I can generate rain in Australia by camping. I went camping three times in the year I was there, and it chucked it down every time. In one place, it hadn’t rained a drop in nearly four years.

I was considering trying to get sponsored to go out to some of the real dry places, but then my visa ran out.

This is easy to avoid: once you find what you’re looking for…just keep on looking.

I have read and re-read and re-read this again, and I can’t figure out what you’re trying to say. You have kept on looking after finding something…and you still find it in the last place you looked? You find more than one specific thing? You’re looking for your car keys, you find them, you keep on looking, and you find another set of car keys? What?

Twice, I have apparently caused other drivers to hit my brand new car, on my way home from the dealer.

Hope you hid your stash before the cop showed up.

I can fix software bugs just by looking at the computer when someone tries to reproduce the problem.

I make green traffic lights turn red.

I influence other shoppers in my line by making their purchases problematic.

i make radio stations play the shittiest songs imaginable just by tuning to them.

I make other people sit at the crapper beside me at work just as I’m about to unload the chicken wings and beer from the night before.

I make people drive under the speed limit when I’m in a hurry.

I make bread go mouldy a day after the sell by date.

I have this ability, but it is very specific. By getting in line behind someone at a grocery store or supermart, I make something go wrong with the card they were using to make their purchases. They may be at any stage of purchase, from in the midst of swiping the card, to not yet unloading their purchases, but their card will not work. Sometimes they can get it to work after some acrobatics by the cashier, or use a different card, but whatever card they originally intended will NOT WORK THE FIRST TIME. EVER. Sometimes they have to dig for cash, and get the cashier to remove some purchases. Often I feel guilty, because I know it’s really my fault, so if I have cash, I offer a couple of dollars if they are short.

This doesn’t happen to people intending to pay with cash initially, and it doesn’t happen at self-serve lines, only at cashiers. It doesn’t happen at anything but grocery stores and supermarts. It doesn’t happen, for example, at bookstores, liquor stores, clothing stores, or Toys R Us. But I kept track in my datebook once, and it happened every time I shopped at a grocery store, K-Mart or Walmart for 3 months. I stopped keeping track after that.

Whoa. Dude. Trippy.

Me, i have the uncanny ability to bring out the worst in people.