I taught. I can generally tell how old a child is to within about a year.
I know several thousand Australian postal codes, their towns, and the relevant regional delivery office.
Not going to be a whole lot of use when I leave the post office.
“PC Load Letter” is printerspeak for “feed me.”
I know how to make any office machine sit up and sing. I have some kind of touch or something - they work for me like no one else.
I too can fold 8 1/2 X 11 into perfect thirds. I’m like an envelope-stuffing machine. Whee.
I can pare your warts, get the wax out of your ears, and tell if you have a bladder infection or blood in your poop, among many other exciting body-related skills.
Whee!
I can count money and roll coins very quickly. I can usually grab a handful of coins, and have it be the correct amount for a roll, give or take one coin. I’m also pretty darned good at getting people to dish the dirt about their ex-employees.
I can get the lid off a small vial using only one hand, hang onto it while using the other hand to pipette stuff into or out of said vial, and then put the lid back on the vial.
In fact, this has become such a habit with me that I’ll open bottles of Advil that way at home without even thinking about it.
I can take a ball of dough and make an absolutely perfect pizza out of it in about thirty seconds. I can also carry five hot and loaded plates of food through an obstacle course of chairs and children.
That’s my talent, too! The people in the newsroom use me more than they use the IT guy. Fax isn’t working? I walk over - and it starts to work.
Sometimes I actually have to do stuff (for some reason no one ever bothered to learn how to un-clog a paper misfeed from our printer/copyer/fax machine; I dunno why because it clogs at least twice a day), but usually just my presence will make the machine shape up.
I can do this with the computers, too. And the design guy’s iPod. But, of course, none of my own machines.
~Tasha
Now where gettin’ somewhere. 
“Whee!” indeed. 
Me? I can replace a Jeep distributor drive gear, reinstall, hand-time and get it running enough to get you out of the wilderness with a 1/2" wrench and a nail.
Not a good skill to have had to master. :mad:
I used to work day care. When a small child is sick with a cold or flu, I can smell it on them from four or five paces away.
I once picked up something at a swimming pool supply store, where the coworker of the person serving me had memorized the catalogue number of everything in the store. She said it was easier than looking it up all the time.
I used to be a vet tech. For a while, I could “diagnose” parvovirus with one sniff of a fecal sample. We always followed up with an appropriate test.
I have a memory of failed projects that is longer than my boss’s.
From my various jobs:
– I can carry 4 glasses of liquid perfectly, through a crowd, without spilling a drop, by balancing them on my two hands.
– I can memorize a page of script in roughly 15-20 minutes.
– I can fold a huge pile of sweaters into a perfectly straight, symmetrical pile in a matter of minutes.
–I can create a macro in Wordperfect. And do other Wordperfect things. Which is saying something, because Wordperfect sucks ass.
–I can always, in any light, immediately tell the difference between black and very dark navy blue.
I have dozens of aviation navigation beacon identifiers & frequencies stuck in my head, as well as dozens of communication frequencies for locations all over the US.
Now that I don’t fly professionally any more, those are rather useless factoids to be toting around.
Me, too. Comes in handy to tell a client to wait in their car and you’ll come get them when it’s their turn, so the entire waiting room doesn’t get contaminated. Helped at the Humane Society, too - after I finally convinced the others I could smell it. Turning away a litter of sick puppies is much better for the shelter in the long run than having a shelter full of sick, often dying puppies. Goddess above I hate parvovirus! And I just found out humans can catch it!
I can identify any pair of Oakley sunglasses at twenty paces:-
Model, size (if applicable), frame and lens color, polarization (or lack thereof), and retail price.
I presume you open it with your pinkie right? Thats what they teach us anyway…
I can write really really complicated HTML pages with a lot of nested tables and make the coding perfect and “light” while using just Notepad. I can do it quickly and it looks great when I’m done.
Sounds like a stupid skill but it makes my $90/hr a lot cheaper and more worthwhile than that other guy’s $40/hr in front of Dreamweaver.
I can generally diagnose a trichomonas infection by the smell…
Cite?