Anyone else here have a useless superpower?

[ZombieNixon]

I can predict what song will come up next when my iTunes is on random and I have premonitions in dreams about mundane conversations. :D

[lizziegrace]

1. Before looking at the caller ID

I usually know who's calling. It's about 90% success...

:shrug:

[ZombieNixon]

2. Awesome.

:D :thumbsup:

[jobycom]

7. Yeah, 90% of my calls are from the same person, too.

[lizziegrace]

9. No...

lots of different people... :)

[Chan790]

3. Super-smeller

All those things that most people can't smell, but some can:

untreated natural gas
cyanide
Carbon Monoxide
etc.

I can smell.

I can also smell electricity, hard water, and blood. (Everybody can smell blood, most can't smell paper-cuts from 2 rooms away though.)

I'm not sure if this is useful or not.

[ZombieNixon]

4. I used to be able to smell electricity

when I was about nine. I could also tell if it would rain that day because my bones felt "damp." :D

[DireStrike]

5. I used to be able to predict simpsons episodes just by thinking about them

And no, I don't know anybody in the industry.

I can also impart aversion with a touch. Whenever I pet my cat, he gets up and leaves.

[martymar64]

6. I retain ungodly amounts of trivia.

It's generally useless, except for the time I won some of Ben Stein's money.

[jobycom]

8. I can predict the future with surprising precision, but only

when no one will listen to me.

[qnr]

25. I can too! In a limited fashion. For example, I'm /almost/ always right

about what the next day is going to be

[ForrestGump]

10. The USA

:D

[ZombieNixon]

11. ...

:rofl:

[WannaBeGrumpy]

WannaBePassingFair and I...

have mind telepathy...


...weird, right?

:think:

[ZombieNixon]

16. Oh GrunnaBeWumpy...

I don't know where I'm going with this, I just wanted to dyslexize your name like I do your mom's. :D

[WannaBeGrumpy]

17. Whatever...

NixombonWixie

[WannaBePassingFair]

12. WannaBeGrumpy and I ...

have mind telepathy...


...weird, right?

:think:

[ZombieNixon]

13. Conspiratorial little punks!

x( :P

[WannaBeGrumpy]

15. That's right

;)

[WannaBePassingFair]

18. damn straight, pitidoe.

[WannaBeGrumpy]

14. Also I always turn on the Tiger's game....

When Magglio Ordonez is batting... EVERY TIME!!!

[WannaBePassingFair]

19. oooohhhh magical.

you're definitely not obsessed or anything......(please don't hit me.)

[WannaBePassingFair]

20. ow.

that hurt.

[WannaBeGrumpy]

63. I JUST DID IT THIS SECOND!!!

God Im good!

[Guava Jelly]

21. I have the power to turn any love interest in to a friend

:)
it is my curse!

[ZombieNixon]

22. And every guy in the world wants the opposite of that power.

:pals:

[Joe Fields]

23. I can melt hearts with my smile. (Doesn't work on evildoers)

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

24. I can make change for a dollar.

Take that, evil-doers!

[WannaBeGrumpy]

27. Now that is a skill worth having

:hi:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

29. But wait, there's more!

I can also sit down and take a nap in nearly any given location.

I hear the villains quivering in their boots!

[WannaBeGrumpy]

30. I know I am awed and amazed!!

:wow:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

31. Oh it doesn't stop there...

While stopped at a red light I can turn it green simply by concentration with my mind powers for several seconds.

Citizens rejoice!

[WannaBeGrumpy]

32. Hey I think I have that same power...

hmmmm..... :think:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

34. Nay, foolish mortal!

Do not tempt the wrath of the gods!

[WannaBeGrumpy]

36. OOHH I'm shivering in my boots...

or flip flops!

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

42. See! I knew you were wearing flip flops!

"How did he know?" you're asking yourself now.

[WannaBeGrumpy]

43. exactly..

I'm mind boggled :wow:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

44. Excellent!

My mind-boggling rays are behaving as they should be.

[WannaBeGrumpy]

47. ...or so you think!

mwahahahaha

[qnr]

26. I can make my monitor turn off just by showing up at the computer.

It's amazing how many times it goes into suspend, just as I'm getting ready to sit back down to it after wandering off for a bit.

[azmouse]

28. I can make cookies and chocolate disappear!

And interestingly enough, if a cup of coffee is near those cookies it too will disappear!

[jmowreader]

33. I can spot a misspelled word from across the room

And not just on signage, either.

You'll love this one: We've got a guy working in Hardware that can draw Homer D. Poe, the little man with the bulbous nose and no eyes who's our mascot, pretty much in his sleep...so lots of people get him to make them signs. Only problem is, Diego can't spell his own name.

Diego's department head tasked him to make a sign advertising the different signs we sell. Diego made a very pretty sign with Homer holding a FOR SALE sign in one hand and a hammer in the other. And then he wrote at the top:

SINGS FOR ALL YOUR NEEDS
Available on Aisle 13

[WannaBeGrumpy]

35. I do that too but maybe it's cause....

I'm a national spelling bee kid! :)

[Redstone]

37. It's not exactly useless, but I always know where north is (and all

the other directions).

It's not common, but not ultra-rare, either. I found out that it has to do with a concentration of iron in your sinuses (really!).

Redstone

[ZombieNixon]

39. Hey, yeah, I can do that, too!

I've heard it was iron in the bridge of your nose, though, but I guess sinuses works too. :D

[Redstone]

40. Someone else, I think wetzelbill, is like that too.

Redstone

[Arkham House]

38. I can walk and chew gum at the same time...

...and I can tell--at a glance--who can and can't, as well...

[Callalily]

41. I'm going to divulge

this to you, and you alone. I can cut onions without crying. Yes, it's true. Sheesh!

[ZombieNixon]

45. Share the secret!!

:cry: :D

[sakabatou]

46. I know each and every time when my mom is calling

[LadyoftheRabbits]

48. I have dreams...

in which I see places I haven't yet been, but, sure enough, I get there soon afterwards. Example: last Christmas break I went to a friend's house which I'd never seen before, but as soon as I got there I saw every detail I'd had in a dream, down to the back staircase and the alignment of pictures on the wall.

:hi:

[WannaBeGrumpy]

49. I did almost the same kinda thing when my Grandpa died...

I dreamt that he had died and about a week later we found out he had.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

51. Actually, that reminds me...

I did dream about my great grandfather's death one night, and I was woken up to be told that he had. :hug:

[WannaBeGrumpy]

53. It's so strange because..

i've heard a lot of stories like that so there must be something to it! :shrug:

[LadyoftheRabbits]

55. I believe there is...

I've heard quite a bit of them too. :hi:

[WannaBeGrumpy]

58. I think it most often happens when...

it's someone or something that you're really close to or something that you fear.

[ZombieNixon]

50. Those are like my mundane premonitions.

I'll dream about talking about something random and inconsequential and then three days later, I'll have that conversation. In fact, this summer, I've spent so much time on DU that I've started dreaming about making DU posts and then make the post a few days later. :eyes: One of them was in your love song thread yesterday. :D

:hi: :hug:

[LadyoftheRabbits]

52. Really?

I feel special :D :loveya:

[ZombieNixon]

54. I think. It might have been in the flirting thread.

One of those threadjacks. Too many threadjacks to keep straight, but I think it was the love song one. :crazy: :loveya:

[LadyoftheRabbits]

56. Yeah...

Soon all of DU's gonna be yelling at us to get a (chat) room :P

[ZombieNixon]

60. I'm surprised there haven't been more of them yet!

:rofl:

[LadyoftheRabbits]

61. *grins*

Yeah, me too! Hey... I was wondering, how did you come up with your screenname? :shrug:

[ZombieNixon]

65. Check your PMs and find out!

:D

[spacelady]

57. Streetlights burn out when I pass under them. n/t

[LadyoftheRabbits]

62. That is REALLY cool...

I wish I had that for a special effect :D

[spacelady]

67. Yeah, special effect IS a good name for it.

[Control-Z]

70. Streetlights go out on me all the time

and I go through an unbelievable amount of light bulbs in my house.

[NewWaveChick1981]

59. I can leap two sleeping dogs in a single bound!

:hi: And I can open jars without using a helper.... :rofl:

[Writer]

64. I can recite the first 13 lines of Canterbury Tales in Middle English.

:shrug:

[fujiyama]

66. I have a pretty decent sense of timing

If I'm wondering what the time is, I'm usually no more than 2-3 minutes off from the actual time.

[KamaAina]

68. I can make repukes' brains shrivel up like raisins

What makes it useless is that apparently millions of other people have it, too, so I can hardly find any repukes anymore whose brains haven't already been shriveled! :evilgrin:

[ashling]

69. I am tele-pathetic

:nopity:

[Generic Brad]

71. My daughter claims to be able to eat ice cream fast and not get a headache

Does that count?

[Redneck Socialist]

72. I'm completely invisible to attractive women

:shrug: As far as super powers go it's pretty useless.