# What's the least important thing that you're really, really good at? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 23, 2010, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166 "2010-02-23T20:57:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![melodyharmonius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/melodyharmonius/32/21310_2.png) [@melodyharmonius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melodyharmonius)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166/121 "2010-02-25T18:20:12Z")
> [@ianzin](#): > > Those wishing to touch the hem of my garment, please form an orderly line. _rushes to the front of the line_ When it comes to playing pool: If it’s a difficult shot, I can usually make it. However, the easier shot, the more likely I am to mess it up. I’m the idiot part of idiot savant. ---
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166/122 "2010-02-25T18:23:38Z")
> [@melodyharmonius](#): > > I’m the idiot part of idiot savant. Good one! ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166/123 "2010-02-25T18:45:50Z")
When I worked at Disneyland, I was the fastest fry cook at my restaurant. Doesn’t matter if it’s Christmas Eve on a Saturday with lines 15 deep and 18 registers open, I can cook the fries by myself with no help and keep it up for at least 4 hours. Makes lunchtime easier on the rest of the staff because they don’t have to spare 2 or 3 people to run one operation. I don’t burn any either, my fries come out perfect. ---
**Author:** ![Barking\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Barking\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barking_Dog)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166/124 "2010-02-25T19:25:52Z")
[quote=“Translucent\_Daydream, post:118, topic:530166”] My band does a crowd pleasing Carny Man - Cross Canadian Ragweed and Send Me On My Way - Rusted Root medley that gets them up dancing. QUOTE] I’d actually like to hear that. I don’t suppose you have a youtube video or something? ---
**Author:** ![LAV25](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/97f17d/32.png) [@LAV25](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LAV25)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166/125 "2010-02-26T00:38:50Z")
I can not only belch on command, but I can suck the air into my stomach to do it without closing my mouth at any point., meaning that I can belch over and over and over. Big hit with my nephew, not so much with my sister. ---
**Author:** ![WomanofScorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@WomanofScorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WomanofScorn)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166/126 "2010-02-26T00:54:52Z")
I can untangle any knot from a necklace no matter how small the chain or the degree of knot. I’ve never broken a necklace doing this. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166/127 "2010-02-26T01:41:11Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > I can also wiggle my nose like a bunny. Just the very tip, up and down. And ears - even one at a time, or move my whole scalp back and forth. My younger sister is able to flare her nostrils and move the dimple on her chin in and out. At the same time. Nostrils out, chin dimple in. Chin dimple out, nostrils in. Freaky and supremely useless. > [@Serenata67](#): > > Like others here, I am a master of tight packing. It’s like 3D Tetris. When my husband and I go to the grocery store, I always put the groceries away because I can fit things into the fridge and cupboards like no one else. I don’t drive, so when I go shopping at CostCo, I bring a backpack. It’s a big external frame backpack, but still - a backpack. After verifying my cart full of stuff matches my receipt at the exit, I go back to the food service area and proceed to stuff that whole cart of food into the backpack. This includes items like a sub-primal of ribeye steak and a 36 pack of eggs. I get it all in there so nothing arrives at out home - a bus and a train later - broken, wet or thawed. Other people sitting there eating their pizza or hot dog have actually applauded when I finish packing. I can perfectly imitate the sound of the kazoo by playing a film of saliva in the gap between my two front upper teeth. I can play a melody on a bottle. Unvarying amount of liquid in the bottle, wide range of different notes. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166/128 "2010-02-26T03:25:14Z")
I forgot to mention, I can gleet up to 15 feet, any time I want too: completely voluntary. It took several hours a week, through both my freshman and sophomore years of highschool to develop this skill, but now I haz it. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166/129 "2010-02-26T03:32:50Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > I can perfectly imitate the sound of the kazoo by playing a film of saliva in the gap between my two front upper teeth. Don’t forget you can also do [this](http://www.insuredimaging.com/Woodward_Iowa_Tornado_Damage%5B1%5D.jpg) when you sneeze. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166/130 "2010-02-26T03:53:29Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > Don’t forget you can also do [this](http://www.insuredimaging.com/Woodward_Iowa_Tornado_Damage%5B1%5D.jpg) when you sneeze. If I were to do both at the same time, I am quite confident my head would explode. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166/131 "2010-02-26T04:23:29Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > If I were to do both at the same time, I am quite confident my head would explode. Probably leave a crater the size of Dubuque. ---
**Author:** ![jellyblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@jellyblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jellyblue)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166/132 "2010-02-26T08:06:41Z")
> [@Rheintochter](#): > > I do and frequently have. > It depends on when the birthday is, though. That’s a rather seasonal skill I have there. 😛 > > Besides - getting the clovers from Germany to Seattle while they’re still fresh might be tricky. I’ll be happy to deliver them personally though, if you pay for the flight. 😉 This must be a German thing, then. My best friend in highschool was German and she was AMAZING at doing this, just like you say. She’d dart over to a median strip and pluck out a four or six leaf clover! I’m kind of like that with seashells. I find really great seashells where no great seashells seem to be had. Pretty useless. I can also do splits three ways without standing up: right side, middle, left side, then back again. Fun to watch people wince… ---
**Author:** ![The\_Bith\_Shuffle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ce73a5/32.png) [@The\_Bith\_Shuffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Bith_Shuffle)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166/133 "2010-02-26T08:12:41Z")
I have a lot of useless game skills. I’m really good at L5R (the card game). I can recite the Gettysburg Address from memory, along with a bunch of different poems. But my Super Mario Brothers 3 skills have to be the best combination of useless and amazing. I can beat the game in about sixteen minutes (using warp whistles, of course). I once got about fifteen and a half. That’s not speed-run calibre, but it’s pretty intense. ---
**Author:** ![A\_Spoonful\_of\_Awesome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@A\_Spoonful\_of\_Awesome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_Spoonful_of_Awesome)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166/134 "2010-02-26T08:52:50Z")
I can smoothly flip almost any coin back and forth over the tops of my fingers. My favorites are the British 1 pound coin and the Indian 5 rupee coin. I also used to be freakishly good at foosball. Turns out women are not at all impressed by this. ETA: > [@LAV25](#): > > I can not only belch on command, but I can suck the air into my stomach to do it without closing my mouth at any point., meaning that I can belch over and over and over. Big hit with my nephew, not so much with my sister. I can do this as well. Even bigger hit with the ladies. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166/135 "2010-02-26T13:48:53Z")
I can poop in perfect silence. See? You didn’t even know it. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166/136 "2010-02-26T14:40:59Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > I can poop in perfect silence. > > See? You didn’t even know it. [Alien] On the Internet, no-one can hear you poop [/Alien] ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166/137 "2010-02-26T15:29:26Z")
Procrastinating. But it probably crosses the line from least important and into decidedly harmful territory. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166/138 "2010-02-26T15:40:49Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > I don’t drive, so when I go shopping at CostCo, I bring a backpack. It’s a big external frame backpack, but still - a backpack. After verifying my cart full of stuff matches my receipt at the exit, I go back to the food service area and proceed to stuff that whole cart of food into the backpack. This includes items like a sub-primal of ribeye steak and a 36 pack of eggs. I get it all in there so nothing arrives at out home - a bus and a train later - broken, wet or thawed. This is impressive, and definitely not useless. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166/139 "2010-02-26T15:47:30Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > I forgot to mention, I can gleet up to 15 feet, any time I want too: completely voluntary. It took several hours a week, through both my freshman and sophomore years of highschool to develop this skill, but now I haz it. **Gleet**? [QUOTE=A Google search for “define: gleet”] [ul][li]A thin morbid discharge as from a wound or especially chronic gonorrhea[/li][li]Stomach mucus, especially of a hawk; Any slimy, viscous substance; A urethral discharge, especially as a symptom of gonorrhoea[/li][li]A urethral discharge, either of mucus or pus; commonly seen in the chronic form of gonorrheal urethritis[/li][li]Discharge due to chronic gonorrhoea[/ul][/li][/QUOTE] Um. That’s… special? Don’t mind me, I’m going to edge nervously the hell away from you and your _projectile gonorrhoea discharge_. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166/140 "2010-02-26T15:48:55Z")
I’m going to assume he meant [gleeking](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleeking), but I confess I’m going to think of projectile gonorrheal discharge every time I see his user name for a good long while. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166.md?page=8)