I, too, am time-canny. I can’t wear a watch - they speed up and eventually die, but I never need one.
I can do those sliding number puzzles (you know - they have sliding tabs numbered 1-15 and one free space) insanely fast. If someone else messes it up, I can put it in order in less than 8 seconds. Totally useless.
I have the ability to make women feel incredible lust for me one day and the next have no sexual interest in me whatsoever.
No, this does not always correspond with the first time I get in their pants.
I also have the ability to pick hit songs. Every single time I have heard a song from some no-name group that I think is really cool, it either goes to the top 5 in billboard or that artist later releases several hit singles. I did it with Faith No More, Alice in Chains (the night on Headbangers Ball when they premiered ‘We Die Young’ I knew they were going to be big), and various other artists, including some that I really didn’t like but knew they would be successful anyway.
My amazing power belongs in my nose. I can pick up any bottle of any perfume and within a few sniffs, tell you what herbs, flowers, chemicals etc are in it. I can also tell you where a smell is coming from, what the smell is, what the ingredients of the smell are and so forth.
For this reason I believe I should become a perfumer.
I too have an utterly mundane and useless ability to predict boring future events [through my dreams].
I’m also a huge thread killer. Not to mention that I seem to be invisible on these boards…
My amazing power belongs in my nose. I can pick up any bottle of any perfume and within a few sniffs, tell you what herbs, flowers, chemicals etc are in it. I can also tell you where a smell is coming from, what the smell is, what the ingredients of the smell are and so forth.
For this reason I believe I should become a perfumer.
I too have an utterly mundane and useless ability to predict boring future events [through my dreams].
I’m also a huge thread killer. Not to mention that I seem to be invisible on these boards…
Like others, I can catch falling objects by pure instinct, sometimes without even looking. But my power always acts in the safest way possible; for example, I typically catch a falling cup or bottle by its underside and prevent a major spill.
I do this too. Never figured it out until I got married.
My wife says that I actually look at the alarm clock in my sleep periodically. Wierd… I also found out that I sleepwalk and say funny things too. Never remember any of it in the morning.
Not to say your case is exactly similar, but it certainly explained the phenomenon for me.
i can effortlessly, and with no special equipment required, burn rice, fail to make instant coffee dissolve and set frying pans on fire.
and yet
i can make soufles, profiteroles, croissants and apfel strudel perfectly from memory, with no kitchen mishaps, but never have the time or inclination to do so.
I have one heck of a memory. I’ve kept a diary for 40 years, which make explain it. I can recite conversations from years ago. It’s made me a great speller, a great rememberer of phone numbers (which is great in this age of cells and faxes and computers) and more recently with e-mail.
I can be invisible. People don’t believe it, but I’m treated like I don’t exist more than I care to think about. A woman who didn’t believe it went with me to a mall, and didn’t see me standing two feet away from her.
My husband has a great power - he can get the TV to answer his questions. We’ll be sitting there and he’ll say - “I wonder if it will rain tomorrow” and BAM! the weather report will come on. Or he’ll say “when is that show I want to watch?” and BAM! the TV will tell him. Sometimes it is pretty unnerving.
I have the uncanny ability to channel-surf efficiently, clicking back to the program just when it resumes.
(Hey, that’s actually a very useful minor power!)
I also have the power to destroy wonderful bands – or at least their original/best lineup – by becoming a fan of theirs.
I also bring very bad karma to the corporations where I temp – morally suspect places such as Revlon, Qwest, Bell Atlantic, Merrill Lynch, and Schering Plough come to mind. I feel like a Typhoid Mary of the Fortune 500! (Not that they didn’t deserve it…)
Kn*ckers, I thought I was the only one who had that amazing TV-prediction power! I’ve noticed that mine works best for “The Simpsons,” but that may be because it’s on so often now. Yesterday I was thinking about the one where the kids are stranded on the deserted island, and it was on when I got home!
Besides the invisibility and women-repelling power, I also seem to be quite good at killing organizations to which I belong and being on losing sporting teams.