even if you wheeled it out of Costco on a dolly cart.

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Oh, let’s face it, I am talentless. 😂😫

that I can cross my eyes independently of each other and wiggle my left ear.

I can also sing The Star Spangled Banner one syllable off, like this:

Oh, say can you see by
The dawn's early light, what
So proudly we hailed at
The twilight's last gleaming, whose
Broad stripes and bright stars through
Through the perilous fight, o'er
The ramparts we watched were
So gallantly streaming? And
The rockets' red glare, the
Bombs bursting in air gave
Proof through the night that
Our flag was still there, Oh
Say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave o'er
The land of the free and
The home of the brave? - and you come up the last note short at the end.

I can get almost any cat to come to me (people, not so much). I can also call cattle in Norwegian.

They looked perplexed but they did come toward me.

Always, without exception. If I am in your car as a passenger, trust me, you will get an excellent parking space even if the parking gods normally consign you to lower Siberia. On the other hand, the technology gods don't like me and frequently technology doesn't work correctly around me. Weird.

I can pull up in front of anyplace I'm going and there it is--my spot. If it's not there the first time, by the time I go around the block, there it is. I've never known anyone else who had this! It's a fun one.

I used to live in Overland Park.

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I lived in Roeland Park for a while, but mostly 2 miles east over the state line. I still miss it! KC (metro region) is a great town. Now I even mutter "Go Chiefs," while I paid no attention to them at all when I lived there.

and knowing how to approach (and conversely when not to).

Oh, and I got through all my years of school based on a photographic memory--which, sadly is fading as I get older. sigh...

notes all over.

Perfected after long years of practice in meetings.

any car any size! First try.

Weirdest? I can mimic a bullfrog and a rooster! (not at the same time)

I can imitate cardinals and get responses from them. I have no idea what we are saying to each other in those conversations, but I speak cardinal fairly well.

Name all the states in alphabetical order in under 30 seconds.

Pisses me off. I was not born into the right family, I could never afford what I REALLY wanted. Thankfully, I learned early that there are things I could like almost as much that cost much less. Flexibility is the key to life, IMO.

I have yet to find one that I cannot figure out and operate in real time. Tractor Trailers, farm equipment, airplanes, air boats, motorcycles, Segways... the only thing I have never attempted to operate is a helicopter. (I have ridden in plenty, just never flew one.)

I also seem to have the ability to make everyone around me dislike me. I don't know how this one came about, and it did not used to be this way at all, but recently it has been undeniable.

The most fun thing I ever 'operated'?



So, a quick story. One of my uncles was on the team that designed and created the computers for the Space Shuttle program, and they also built and programmed the simulator. On one visit, we got permission to go to the lab where the simulator was set up. It did not have all the fru-fru that is in that picture. It was a frame of rods with the monitors simulating the windows and the control panels. There was no body or even seatbelts on the seats at the time. I got to pilot two missions with my uncle. The first one to release a satellite and the second to retrieve it. Both times, we were almost perfect. We had liftoff. Roll was perfect and so was SRB separation. We did MICO and jettisoned the tank. We did the task. We came back into earth's orbit with the correct angle. We shot through the atmosphere to land at Edwards.

And, both times we came down too hard, blew the tires, rolled the craft and killed everyone aboard. If you have seen the movie "Space Camp', when the kids are in the simulator and the screens all turn red and the front ones say, 'No Survivors', that is exactly what I saw both times.

I tell ya. That thing is like trying to land a brick. (Not my quote, just my paraphrase.)

1. Read print upside down. I won't be winning any speed reading contest reading print upside down, but I can do it.




2. I have prehensile toes. I've been grabbing items and picking items off the floor using my toes since I was a kid. My son has the same ability as I do.

That skill was a real advantage when involved in negotiations.

Well.....I'm double-jointed (in my thumbs and one finger) and I can wiggle my nose.....As one of the other posters shared, I also have really good parking Karma - I call on "Gladys The Parking Goddess" and she always comes through.

and can read things that are upside down.

Got up to 2000 words per minute in college after taking a speed-reading course, but slowed down over the years.

... left handed dyslexic gave me solutions to the difficulties of being a left handed dyslexic in a right handed world.

When I was a newspaper reporter covering police, they'd refuse to show me reports they were holding, but I could read them upside down. Mwa ha ha.

Find adoptive homes. My cats help.

I don't have a weird talent.

Hard to do at this age…but I could curl my tongue into a round shape and kinda carry a tune. As with all tongue whistlers age takes its toll…had to retire…couldn’t re-tongue.

my motto:

Didn’t work than we wouldn’t do it

others can't. I recognized Trump as con man 30 years ago.

Wah WAH wah wah wah wah waaaaah......

Everything I try, I’m mediocre at. I am very curious and read a lot of history and science but that’s hardly a ‘talent”.

when his dad gets beat up by the baby kangaroo.

Sometimes just a sloppy, temporary fix until someone more experienced can do a better job.

Electronic, not a chance.

I can tie a bunch of mean knots thanks to navy and Ashlyes book of knots. You may be surprised what can be accomplished with just a length of good rope. Ancient tech. hahaha

an accident.