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What is your tiny, silly, superpower?

Asked by canidmajor (21583points) April 26th, 2023

It’s a thing now, an insignificant talent you have that is not even remotely world shaking.
My Dad could just look at a crying baby and it would instantly quiet and smile.
My daughter can always insert a USB plug correctly, on the first try, without looking.
If I buy a movie or TV series on dvd, it will hit one of my streaming services in about a week, 9 times out of 10. (Not even new stuff, it works best with older, less popular titles).
Stuff like that.

What’s yours (remember, tiny and silly)?

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janbb's avatar

I make great toast!

chyna's avatar

If instructions say “assemble in one hour”. I automatically add 4 more hours and it’s usually true.

RedDeerGuy1's avatar

I’m 6’5” and when toddlers look up at me sometimes they topple over.

flutherother's avatar

I inadvertently made my Note 10 pen vanish this morning and half an hour later it teleported to my computer desk.

zenvelo's avatar

I remember what date a thing happened.

LifeQuestioner's avatar

@flutherother there was a Twilight Zone episode back in the day that explained that phenomenon.

I always manage to have my car get to the point where I have to put gas in it on the chilliest, rainiest day.

Forever_Free's avatar

I can bring comfort and peace to a person or situation (no matter how tumultuous it is).

Annoying Superpower = I never forget things.

smudges's avatar

I very rarely lose things. I can tell when things have been moved in a room.
Also, I’m a whiz at finding objects, even it it’s not mine and I haven’t seen it before. Uncanny.

canidmajor's avatar

Oooh, @smudges, I love that one!!

Tropical_Willie's avatar

Cooking a pot of food; stew. chili, pasta sauce, pot roast, chicken soup, braised beef short ribs. . . . !

KNOWITALL's avatar

I remember number strings with zero effort. From phone numbers to bank account numbers. Dates are unfortunately not included, I’m horrible with those.

janbb's avatar

^^ I used to!

jca2's avatar

I can remember minute details from decades ago.

RedDeerGuy1's avatar

I can walk away after I am ahead at a casino. I’ve been yelled at for it by the dealer. I guess that they want all of our money.

Acrylic's avatar

Can put any sentence, phrase, words, etc. to music. May not be good music, but still.

kritiper's avatar

I cannot tell a lie. I can snow you with BS but when it comes to what really matters, I always tell the truth.

KNOWITALL's avatar

@kritiper Admirable attribute!

Caravanfan's avatar

I spill stuff.

Blackwater_Park's avatar

@kritiper but do you also like big butts?

gondwanalon's avatar

I don’t think that I ever inserted a USB plug in on the first try. Didn’t think it was possible to do that. Once I tried so many times that I concluded that it must be defective.

canidmajor's avatar

@gondwanalon I always look at it, then promptly do it wrong. My kid got all the ability there, apparently.

longgone's avatar

My things always return. I don’t even try to find them anymore. I lost a wool hat in the woods last week, then had it literally smack me in the face the next morning. Turns out a branch had swiped it off my head. When I was a kid, I lost a watch in a forest I visited very rarely. Went back four weeks later and it was right there, in the middle of the path, good as new. Another time, I lost my phone. It slipped out of my coat pocket and into a foot of snow. The next morning, my dog found it for me by digging at the spot. Once, I lost 10€ at a fair and then found 20€ on the way home.

¯\(ツ)

canidmajor's avatar

@longgone You and @smudges should start a Finder business!

kritiper's avatar

@Blackwater_Park No I like small, tight, round, well proportioned butts. They drive me nuts!

Mimishu1995's avatar

I can give you birthday presents that match your need. I have a knack of sorting out with present suits someone the most :P

jca2's avatar

I have the ability to put things in a special spot and then forget where the special spot is.

seawulf575's avatar

I sometimes just know things I have no way of knowing. It COULD be big and earth-shattering as a super-power, but it is usually reserved for silly little things and is a bit whimsical when it comes on.

KNOWITALL's avatar

@seawulf575 A little shine, that’s neat.

LuckyGuy's avatar

It’s a big super power.
I can make it rain by arranging the rental of construction equipment.
If you need a lot of rain, I can reserve a backhoe loader for a week.

Mimishu1995's avatar

Not exactly silly, but I recently discovered I have developed a new superpower. I can tell if something will fail/someone is bad way ahead of time. I mean months, even years into the future. No one believed me at first. I didn’t believe I had the right prediction either. I just charted it up as me being oversensitive. But so many things have happened that confirmed my suspicion. Some things even happened exactly the way I predicted. By that time everyone had forgotten what I said earlier, but they came to the same conclusion at me. It has happened so frequently now that I am starting to consider whether I really can predict the future.

tinyfaery's avatar

I can tell if a cat is male or female just by looking at them. My record is 17 out of 20. Yes, people test me.

seawulf575's avatar

@tinyfaery That is sort of what my super-power is, except I did it with my unborn children. Called it as a daughter when everyone else thought it was a boy. Then on the next child I called it as twin boys when there were no twins in either family. Boy was my ex pissed when I was right!

Blackwater_Park's avatar

I’m able to move furniture in and out of tight spaces where other people usually give up on trying. I have always just been able to see the way it should go.

seawulf575's avatar

@Blackwater_Park I bet you are good at solving Rubik’s Moving van as well!

smudges's avatar

Can I just say I think we’re an awfully talented bunch of people?!

RedDeerGuy1's avatar

I can burn myself out by pretending to be a super saiyan. With no powers… yet.

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