Most of us are skilled in at least one idle discipline or pursuit. Some are skilled in many. What is your superpower?

Do you know when a watermelon is ripe by tapping on it?
Do you actually understand Scientology?
Are you a master of all things beer pong?
Can you do TCP/IP sub-netting in your head in IPv6?
Do you speak more than one language?

What is your superpower?

H&K-Guy

I am a lightening rod for unusual occurrences. Crazy things rarely happen directly to me, but constantly occur in my presence.

I can make my wife go from sweet and adorable, to fire breathing Banshee in 3.8 seconds

It takes 3.8 seconds to make you’re wife a screaming banshee? Hold my beer, I’ll turn mine into one in 2 seconds flat, in fact it happens several times a week.

I can, single handedly, turn an easy project into an all day cuss fest.

I am extremely skilled in turning money into noise.

H&K-Guy

1) I'm pretty good at sniffing out bullshit, or most any kind of shit.
2) My investment choices seem to contradict rule #1.
3) IPv6 subnetting in my head? Sure, no problem. It's only 128 bits after all.

I have the ability to underestimate the cost and time for any project, usually by a factor of 10.

I am still working on finishing up a retaining wall/stairs project I started 3 years ago. Not from a lack of effort either.

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Originally posted by Johnny 3eagles:
I can, single handedly, turn an easy project into an all day cuss fest.

This, plus turning a $10 fix into a $200 replacement.

I'm also highly proficient at buying high, spending a crapload fixing, and selling low.

I’m invisible when no one is looking.

Memory. Not a savant, as in people who you could say March 1st, 1986, and they know the day of the week it was, temp that day, current issues or politics of that day/time. I have what I call selective photographic memory. In some ways I am a savant, especially as it pertains to my work. Others would need to spend a considerable amount of time to look things up, I can recall them on the fly.

Negotiation. I'm hell on wheels. Whether it be contract work on my house, negotiating on a car deal, or at work where I do most of it. Seldom do I lose.

Driving/riding. I can anticipate what people will do (usually stupid shit) before they even do it. People will be in the car saying "How did you know they were going to do that?" Same at a bar or something. The guy that is in there to fight and raise hell or do something crazy, I'd move our group as far away as possible anticipating that something was going to go down. Sometimes I was wrong, nothing happened, but 70% of the time I called it. I guess I can read body language better than most.

Bullshit detection

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Originally posted by 1967Goat:
I have the ability to underestimate the cost and time for any project, usually by a factor of 10.
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Sounds like the CA government.

But CA does it deliberately, so the bonds will be approved by the Lib electorate.

I am an instant ahole.
Just add alcohol.

I can hock a loogie all the way across my back yard.

I have the ability to hang around people that make me look smart.

My superpower is 20/20 Hindsight.

I have to be extremely careful around obscure, ratty old motorized devices -- like mongrel dogs they have a tendency to follow me home...

I have an amazing ability to not give a damn.

I transform into a babytalking, blithering idiot whenever I meet a friendly dog.