What is your real life super power?

FJohnSharp · Post by **FJohnSharp** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 12:58 pm

When ascending or descnding a set of stairs, by the time I'm halfway I know if it's an odd number or an even number of stairs remaining without counting or even really paying attention. It just occurs to me.

I must add that this power was at its height several years ago and I have not experienced it lately.

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 12:59 pm

SteveK wrote:I have refrained from beating a session member to death with his own instrument-so far, anyway.

Flute?

tuaz · Post by **tuaz** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 1:36 pm

super-corrosive sweaty (read "drippy") hands.

anniemcu · Post by **anniemcu** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 1:48 pm

Walden wrote:The Batman managed to be a superhero without any superpowers, per se.

His super power was the money to fund the manufacture of the 'wonderful toys' that he used.

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 3:54 pm

anniemcu wrote:His super power was the money to fund the manufacture of the 'wonderful toys' that he used.

Sort of like Osama, but on the side of law and justice.

pastorkeith · Post by **pastorkeith** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 4:02 pm

Find everyone else's lost things (my own lost things are my fatal flaw - like kryptonite - rendering me merely human)

I can fill my desk with piles and piles of stuff and still pull out the very thing that I need with one hand at the exact moment I need it.

Fold laundry and watch football at the same time.

pastorkeith

sbfluter · Post by **sbfluter** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 7:08 pm

My real true super-power is that I can find my way in the wilderness (at least in my local wilderness, not so much in other wildernesses.) Without a map and compass. I just know where I am and where to go.

There are lots of places I take people and while sometimes I may lose the trail I'm always confident that given a map I could put my finger on exactly where we are. Many times we'll be searching for the trail and arguing about the right way and the men will pull out their GPSs and maps and stuff and I'll just poke my head through a curtain of brush and say, "this way" and I'm almost always right.

It's easy to lose trails here because they grow back with tangled brush and also because I like to hike on trails that are barely there to secret places other people would never know existed. Most people are amazed at the beauty of our local wilderness, with its elfin forest of low shrubs, and at the amazingly wonderful secret places that hide within it. I'm convinced that some of the best places I've found are on some of those ley lines they talk about. I'm not some kind of new age nut job who believes in crop circles and stuff like that. I just know there's something special there. Some places are spooky. Some places are special. And I just know the way.

DCrom · Post by **DCrom** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 10:29 pm

I can follow conversations in languages I don't understand (Cantonese and Mandarin), and at an appropriate place add a relevant comment.

Limitation: this only seems to work with my wife and her friends. But it's enough to make them believe I have a far better understanding of their languages than I'll ever master.

Doug_Tipple · Post by **Doug_Tipple** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 7:33 am

sbfluter wrote: I'm not some kind of new age nut job who believes in crop circles and stuff like that. I just know there's something special there. Some places are spooky. Some places are special. And I just know the way.

I probably may be viewed as some kind of new age nut job who believes in crop circles and stuff like that. I agree that some places are special. My preception skills have become rusty with neglect, but there was a time, not long ago, when I could feel the energy fields from plants and people, and I could influence those energy fields with the energy from my hands.

Charlene · Post by **Charlene** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 9:08 am

I can cause any TV show to be cancelled simply by becoming a regular viewer.

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:37 am

I can sit down and subsequently lose everything I had on my person within 5 minutes without moving.

Marcus: Uilleann

The Weekenders · Post by **The Weekenders** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 3:14 pm

tuaz wrote:super-corrosive sweaty (read "drippy") hands.

No, you may NOT play my guitar. Nyuk.

Post by **Nanohedron** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 3:23 pm

I had a temporary superpower recently: let's just say it was vaporously gastrointestinal, horrid, ongoing for nearly three days, and the sheer unprecedented chemical power of it actually burned me where the good Lord split me. Seriously. I had burns. Scary.

No more sauerkraut for me. No, sir.

s1m0n · Post by **s1m0n** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 3:30 pm

Nanohedron wrote:I had a temporary superpower recently: let's just say it was vaporously gastrointestinal, horrid, ongoing for nearly three days, and the sheer unprecedented chemical power of it actually burned me where the good Lord split me. Seriously. I had burns. Scary.

No more sauerkraut for me. No, sir.

Sounds like the fabled "Stool of Repentence".

Post by **Nanohedron** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 3:35 pm

s1m0n wrote:
Nanohedron wrote:I had a temporary superpower recently: let's just say it was vaporously gastrointestinal, horrid, ongoing for nearly three days, and the sheer unprecedented chemical power of it actually burned me where the good Lord split me. Seriously. I had burns. Scary.

No more sauerkraut for me. No, sir.
Sounds like the fabled "Stool of Repentence".

'Twas near unto that, only minus the stool as it were. There was repentance - never mind the rest - aplenty.