I can make awesome milkshakes. It’s a talent that I dust off max. two or three times a year, and not even every year.
Lies! I mean… I wanna see.
I haven’t done it in a few years but I used to be really good with a boomerang. I played with them for countless hours when I was young. My little brother smarted off to me once and started walking away. I took my heavy wooden boomerang and threw it in the opposite direction as hard as I could. When it came back, it sought out his neck like a heat-seeking guillotine. Luckily, he saw it out of the corner of his his and was able to duck just in time. I could also make a boomerang fly out and back and land like a helicopter in my hands. I need to order another one now that I think about it.
I love to travel and am horrible at new languages, truly wretched. I am, however, a freakin’ savant at that smashed up, heavy accent distorted, quasi English/sign language that none English speakers, of any ethnic persuasion, use to speak to foreigners. It’s not like I know any of their language, but they’re trying so hard, it just comes through. Other foreigners are always like, “How’d you know what he was saying, do you speak ???” No actually.
It’s actually quite useful, but not terribly important in one’s day to day life.
I can pour liquid into a bottle from a great height without spilling it - no matter how narrow the neck of the bottle is.
This one is hard to desribe, but try it anyway. Put the fingers of one hand in a “Live Long and Prosper” position
pointer/middle | wide space | ring/pinkie
Put the other hand in the “opposite position”
pointer | wide space | middle/ring | wide space | Pinkie
Got that? Now switch them.
Back and forth, no hesitation or unsynchronized movement.
Huh? Huh? Pretty impressive, right?
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.
These are the little things that keep Catholics kids sane during the Homily.
I’m really good at pouring liquids from one container into another. If you ever need someone to pour off the bacon grease into a soda-pop can, I’m your girl.
And I always catch the first fish.
I’m the queen of getting more things to fit into a space than should logically be able to fill it. The class examples are dish drying racks and suitcases.
I have a lot of very useful computer skills:
I can draw an electrical schematic of a commodore 64 computer from memory.
I can break into a VAX computer when someone has forgotten the admin password.
I can break a commodore PET computer with a very simple software loop. There’s a chance it might even catch on fire.
I know how to play music on an AM radio if there’s an Apple II computer nearby.
I can program an IBM 407 Accounting machine.
I can do that too! But I can only do it quickly if I’m waving my hand up and down at the time for some reason, maybe it helps with the coordination.
I am a natural at Skee-Ball. I haven’t played in years, so I don’t know if I’m rusty, but as a child I never even played very much of it - just a true idiot savant at Skee-Ball.
Now would this be the rich, red, inner layer, or the pachydermatis outer melon layer?
I’m having a hard time visualizing this. Wouldn’t the thumbs experience a head-on collision twice per rotation?
Perhaps a video is in order.
I can recite the names of the presidents in chronological order.
It is a fairly impressive party trick, but has yet to get me a job or large sums of money.
I, too, have mastered this skill. If I had a nickel for every time some one told me, “You’ll never get that (all) in there…”
I am also good at eyeballing whether things are level/parallel, no level required. I hang it and it is perfect, the first time every time.
I have mastered tupperware*.
I always select the right size for the amount of food, and can find matching lids in seconds. Even in other people’s kitchens.
*All plastic containers shall henceforth be known as tupperware regardless of origin.
One must go under the other each time.
I can take a regular medium ball point pen and write really, really, really, really small. And its legible to downright neat.
I can whistle with any 2 fingers.
Coin trick.
Stand three coins in a stack in one hand, size doesn’t really matter. I use 20c, say for you quarters. Manipulate them so that you slide out completely the middle one, and then slide it back in using only the one hand. When you can do that increase the ante to 5 coins sliding out the 2nd and 4th coin. etc
I can get to 23.