# Unimportant things you feel proud about **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 31, 2015, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unimportant-things-you-feel-proud-about/741821 "2015-12-31T15:29:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cognoscant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Cognoscant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cognoscant)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2016, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unimportant-things-you-feel-proud-about/741821/21 "2016-01-01T15:31:29Z")
There are three things I feel like I’m good at, one of which is no longer useful to me, one of which helped me survive last year, and the last I can’t talk about. The second thing is job interviews. Despite my severe introversion and social anxiety, I seem to rise to the challenge there, whether I am the interviewer or the interviewee. I’ve always seemed to hire the right person for the job, and I’ve managed to get interviewers on my side from the start. I always feel like if I can get the interview, I will get the job. I have so little confidence elsewhere. I’m extremely grateful for this. Gonna leave the other two on the table. Not this kind of thread,not this kind of board. ---
**Author:** ![leahcim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b4bc9f/32.png) [@leahcim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leahcim)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2016, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unimportant-things-you-feel-proud-about/741821/22 "2016-01-01T16:11:21Z")
> [@Sattua](#): > > I’m not an academic, not a researcher, not a mathematician, so it has absolutely no bearing or benefit in my life, but my Erdos number is 3. I blundered into it in college. 100% undeserved, yet there it is. Wanna coauthor a paper? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2016, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unimportant-things-you-feel-proud-about/741821/23 "2016-01-01T16:26:13Z")
In discussion with my co-workers and colleagues from other companies (many of which learned the basics of our trade from me) I have come to realize that, at 62, I am the oldest technician in the trade still working in the field. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2016, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unimportant-things-you-feel-proud-about/741821/24 "2016-01-01T16:30:07Z")
> [@D18](#): > > It’s hard for me to imagine a better parallel parker than myself. That’s certainly setting the bar comfortably low - proud of your lack of imagination. Or am I missing something? ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2016, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unimportant-things-you-feel-proud-about/741821/25 "2016-01-01T19:20:35Z")
I was born with the non-stink gene (and yes there is such a thing). Seriously. My wife is jealous. I can go for two weeks without showering, with 25 miles per week of running, and there just is no pit stink or body stink. Just as long as the naughty bits are kept clean nobody knows how long it has been since my last shower. Usually oily hair is what sends me to the shower. Occasionally I wonder why I couldn’t have been blessed with something cool like perfect pitch or the ability to play _good_ jazz, as opposed to my mediocre attempts, but then I realize what a blessing it is to never worry about pit stink. ---
**Author:** ![Soulcatcher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Soulcatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soulcatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2016, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unimportant-things-you-feel-proud-about/741821/26 "2016-01-01T20:51:29Z")
I’m in my early 40’s and still manage to discover and enjoy new music. Rather than endlessly listening to the same bands and genres from my high school and college years. ---
**Author:** ![D18](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@D18](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D18)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2016, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unimportant-things-you-feel-proud-about/741821/27 "2016-01-01T21:50:04Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > That’s certainly setting the bar comfortably low - proud of your lack of imagination. > > Or am I missing something? Where’s that old Wally emoticon when you need it! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2016, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unimportant-things-you-feel-proud-about/741821/28 "2016-01-01T22:14:20Z")
I can read, with comprehension, very very quickly. I see blocks of text and read them as a unit. Useful in academia, not so much now. ---
**Author:** ![botsgotme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@botsgotme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/botsgotme)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2016, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unimportant-things-you-feel-proud-about/741821/29 "2016-01-01T22:21:39Z")
Back when I chewed; I could spit very accurately. I got so good at it that I could hit a (moving) cat at 12 paces!🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2016, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unimportant-things-you-feel-proud-about/741821/30 "2016-01-01T23:33:21Z")
Not that it means anything, but I’ve always been proud that I’ve never smoked anything and have never taken an illegal drug. I’m also (sort of) proud that I’ve never taken a prescription drug, though I suppose it’s mostly due to my good genes. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unimportant-things-you-feel-proud-about/741821/31 "2016-01-02T00:10:10Z")
I recently bench-pressed 225 lbs for 12 reps (at 130lbs body weight), a personal best. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unimportant-things-you-feel-proud-about/741821/32 "2016-01-02T00:23:28Z")
I starred on Romper Room. I’m living like a king off the residuals. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unimportant-things-you-feel-proud-about/741821/33 "2016-01-02T00:27:16Z")
I’ve twice taken the Graduate Record Exam and both times scored a perfect 800 on the Verbal section. Never actually went to, or even applied to, grad school, mind; but I _did_ have a dean of a history department oohing over my GRE scores, once. Kinda sad, really. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unimportant-things-you-feel-proud-about/741821/34 "2016-01-02T00:29:42Z")
> [@Octarine](#): > > Another one: I’m female, and I still haven’t gotten my ears pierced. I don’t wear jewelry much, so it was just something that never seemed to be important enough to go out of my way to do; nowadays, getting them pierced would feel like I was . . . breaking a streak, somehow. My mother passed away at 87 and had never had her ears pierced. ---
**Author:** ![Hopeful\_Crow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/da6949/32.png) [@Hopeful\_Crow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hopeful_Crow)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unimportant-things-you-feel-proud-about/741821/35 "2016-01-02T00:47:45Z")
Romper Room. Boy, that takes me back. Way before Sesame Street was a gleam in a Muppet’s eye. Ah, to be a kid again. I’m proud of how well my spider plants are doing. Yeah, they’re pretty easy to grow but the fact that they’re doing so well on _my_ watch makes me inordinately happy. Almost all of our other plants are pretty well off, too. A couple of the orchids are even in bloom right now. Yeah, all I do is water everyone once a week or so and give them some fertilizer every now and then. (And, yeah, I have to occasionally chuck one.) But they still make me happy. Go me! ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unimportant-things-you-feel-proud-about/741821/36 "2016-01-02T01:09:04Z")
I’ve never had a hangover. Even in my college days, when I drank vodka like a Russian, at worst I’d wake up still drunk. I’m also one of the few SF writers with stories in _Asimov’s, Fantasy and Science Fiction_, and _Analog_, (_Galaxy_, too, but that was the 90s version) ---
**Author:** ![Octarine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/22d042/32.png) [@Octarine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octarine)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unimportant-things-you-feel-proud-about/741821/37 "2016-01-02T01:31:00Z")
> [@minor7flat5](#): > > I was born with the non-stink gene (and yes there is such a thing). > > Seriously. My wife is jealous. I can go for two weeks without showering, with 25 miles per week of running, and there just is no pit stink or body stink. Just as long as the naughty bits are kept clean nobody knows how long it has been since my last shower. Usually oily hair is what sends me to the shower. I don’t have the non-stink gene, but the few times I’ve gone without a shower unusually long, multiple people have commented on how good my hair looks. I don’t have a dry scalp or anything, but it never seems to get oily. As for you posters with good senses of direction, I definitely envy you. My mom is an incredible navigator, but I inherited my dad’s (lack of) skill in that area. I spent nearly my entire childhood in the same tiny village, yet I can still get lost there. > [@RealityChuck](#): > > I’ve never had a hangover. Even in my college days, when I drank vodka like a Russian, at worst I’d wake up still drunk. Ever read Terry Pratchett’s _Hogfather_? There’s a character in it who’s the God of Hangovers - he inherits the hangovers from people who drink but don’t get them. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unimportant-things-you-feel-proud-about/741821/38 "2016-01-02T01:46:24Z")
I have visited all six inhabited continents (I tend to doubt that I’ll make it to Antarctica). Lots of people have done that these days, but I’m still proud of having done it. ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unimportant-things-you-feel-proud-about/741821/39 "2016-01-02T02:51:40Z")
> [@Octarine](#): > > Ever read Terry Pratchett’s _Hogfather_? There’s a character in it who’s the God of Hangovers - he inherits the hangovers from people who drink but don’t get them. 😃 Perhaps there is a “law of conservation of hangovers” that causes the unused hangovers to manifest themselves as migraines in unlucky strangers…😛 ETA: Hey **Stainless** , my dad and his wife just did their dream vacation on a cruise to Antartica–I am avoiding them these days until they have whittled down the 5,000 photographs to a reasonable 36 prints. They loved it, and it seemed to be quite a milestone in their lives, more than just a vacation. He’s 70. Go for it! ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unimportant-things-you-feel-proud-about/741821/40 "2016-01-02T03:21:50Z")
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