Name an ability or skill you have that you’re inordinately proud of, but nobody else gives a shit about. OK, I’ll start. I’m a great speller. I will spell the hell out of almost any word. - ThreadSky

charles.littlegreenfootballs.com • 261 days ago

Name an ability or skill you have that you’re inordinately proud of, but nobody else gives a shit about.

OK, I’ll start. I’m a great speller. I will spell the hell out of almost any word.

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mmmpi.bsky.social•261 days ago

I know what my cat wants most of the time. Also I'm helpful at finding reliable information for others.

halftongue.bsky.social•260 days ago

If I understand something, I can explain it at least two different ways.

untravel.bsky.social•261 days ago

I'm an expert in metaphysics. I wrote a book-thingy on it and everything.

And, well, my mom is very proud....

mikeexinger.bsky.social•260 days ago

I have an inordinate sense of direction & a face that looks trustworthy. What's the big deal? I can't begin to tell you how many times I've been in a completely foreign to me city & had people stop ME (of all people) and ask for directions, or if I know where such-&-such is.
And I somehow know.

maureenlyons.bsky.social•260 days ago

I have a good eye for color. I can look at a shade of gray and tell if it has brown undertones or blue undertones or green undertones. Also know terms to describe shades of colors i.e. robin’s egg blue vs Tiffany blue vs sky blue. I know the difference between loden green and olive green etc.

johnbrownwasright.bsky.social•261 days ago

I'm not at your level but after 30 years of playing I am taking serious guitar lessons and seen a massive jump in my ability. My family and friends show zero interest when I master a Steve Luthaker solo. Lol

cajsa.bsky.social•261 days ago

I can facilitate meetings well. While I was still working other it's would sometimes call me in to facilitate tough meetings like losing grant money after Madoff stole the foundation's money or never of two orgs.

cajsa.bsky.social•260 days ago

Oh damn, autocorrect made nonsense of my skeet. it's was orgs
And never was merger

rogergrow.bsky.social•261 days ago

I can say the alphabet backwards in less than five seconds.

quatraingleam.bsky.social•260 days ago

I can wake up from a smell.

highnumber.bsky.social•261 days ago

Ok, smarty, spell onomatopoeia

jsnidal.bsky.social•260 days ago

I always remember phone numbers … forever.

madstash.bsky.social•260 days ago

Using only a small hook, I can turn yarn into a beautiful one-of-a-kind garment, even without any sort of instructions other than my own imagination. 🧶

charles.littlegreenfootballs.com•261 days ago

Oh yeah, and also? I can read anything upside down, just as well as right side up. I frequently amaze people with this one. (Yeah, right.)

littlecults4ever.bsky.social•260 days ago

I can do that, as well as read reverse. Once, my upside down reading skill came in handy when I was in my manager's office and I saw a note about a reduction in force (aka layoffs) and I was on the list. I read that upside down, so I knew it was coming. (This was in the 1990s.)

ctphil.bsky.social•260 days ago

Anybody who has been in corporate sales had to read what is on the customer's desk. They would purposely leave documents out to tip you to what the company was really looking for in a request for proposal.

stephenist.bsky.social•261 days ago

As a kid, I watched tv draped upside down on the couch and developed this ability too. It came in handy when having to share books in school.

Teachers would call me out, saying I needed to move to be able to read. I’d proceed to read better than my classmates while viewing the book upside down.

rikibeth.bsky.social•261 days ago

I picked up that skill reading picture books to groups of children

jsnidal.bsky.social•260 days ago

I got a variation of that hand-setting metal type!

rikibeth.bsky.social•260 days ago

That’d do it!

wendella.bsky.social•261 days ago

I'm good at doing math in my head.

I'm useful for calculating tips and dividing tabs.

robfromchicago.com•261 days ago

I’m voodoo at diagnosing network problems. Nobody cares, they just want the WiFi to work, but the range of problems I knock down in a month is pretty broad.

hayseed-dixie.com•261 days ago

I can tell you from the first time I cough in a room almost exactly where the bass traps ought to go and the optimal spots on the walls for diffusion. I annoy the hell out of people I'm sitting with in most restaurants with these observations.

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