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Do you have any surprising skills, skills people don't know you have? I mean repeatable ones,not those we have to be careful who we tell :P

I was thinking about this the other day... I am GOOD at folding paper, I know how to do it really professionally, to get a really flat seam... OK so not an earth-shattering skill, (lol tho I have others that are :P) but it's surprising... and it's because when i was a kid my mum worked for a printer and she would sometimes bring home magistrates newsletters and publications to finish off at home.. and I would help her.. we used to have this special tool made from bone...   I also am a gardener extraordinaire and I know a ton of stuff about children with additional support needs... 

And what I thought was.... we are probably all full of strange, quirky skills that we somehow acquired along the way... 

It's kinda cool.... and that's one of the things I love about people... they are endlessly fascinating and have diverse backgrounds and history.

Posted - June 30, 2017
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  • 46117
    I'm a good caregiver.   Considering my personality, I think that would surprise a lot of people. 

      June 30, 2017 11:24 AM MDT
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  • 3463
    That does not surprise me at all.
    You have a very loving and giving heart.
    You just have a spicy personality which I find enduring.
      June 30, 2017 11:57 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    I think the same of you, but sweet instead of spicy.  Thank you. 
      June 30, 2017 12:01 PM MDT
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  • 3463
    I can be both depending on what is going on.
    But my being spicy is not always enduring LOL.
      June 30, 2017 12:25 PM MDT
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  • 46117
    Tell ME about it.  Usually, I feel badly when I get in someone's face.  I don't want to be a beotch, but sometimes I can't help myself.  The thoughts just flow and the fingers follow.
      June 30, 2017 12:27 PM MDT
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  • 13071
    I can upgrade a computer. Weather it be an upgrade to installing an operating system, I can do it.
      June 30, 2017 11:28 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    I wish you lived next-door.  I've said it before, I say it again. 
      June 30, 2017 12:01 PM MDT
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  • 13071
    I do to. I think we would get along famously. We could have artistic temperamental mood swings while sipping Camille tea to calm our fragile creative temperments while chatting away about nothing in particular . We can even sit outside on the lawn chairs and watch the male joggers run by and eye ball them all inappropriately.   ;))
      June 30, 2017 1:29 PM MDT
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  • 1138
    I guess a skill I have is once I see a face, I don't forget it. I've had photographic memory for many years with other objects as well. I once stumbled upon this link online about 'face recognizers' .. I thought, wow that  is a THING?? Haha. I guess people actually work for the FBI that are face recognizers- I took the quiz and made the top slot. If only I didn't get queasy with certain crime scenes I'd know my backup line of work. By the way that is wonderful about the paper and gardening too Daydream... nice question!
      June 30, 2017 11:51 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    Verrrrry Interesting.  I am good, but not THAT good.  I am impressed.  Baybreeze, you would be great in a bank or as a witness in court, for starters. This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at June 30, 2017 12:04 PM MDT
      June 30, 2017 12:02 PM MDT
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  • 1138
    Lol.. thx S.
      June 30, 2017 1:59 PM MDT
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  • 22891
    im bilingual and can speak spanish but that dont seem to mean much to people cause they still wont hire me
      June 30, 2017 12:58 PM MDT
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  • 6988
    They hired my son-in-law JUST BECAUSE HE COULD SPEAK SPANISH.  However, we have a lot of Spanish speakers around these parts.
      June 30, 2017 2:01 PM MDT
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  • 44600
    I can recite pi...backwards.
    I can speak Canadian.
    I can insult someone using big words so they don't know they have been insulted. This post was edited by Element 99 at July 1, 2017 9:41 AM MDT
      June 30, 2017 1:11 PM MDT
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  • 46117
    Which flavor?


      June 30, 2017 1:12 PM MDT
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  • 6988
    Ah, a childhood favorite ---------  Soupy Sales.
      June 30, 2017 2:26 PM MDT
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  • 46117
    Me too, bhw.  I used to run home from school so I wouldn't miss him.  He and Ernie Kovaks were my idols.
      July 1, 2017 3:55 PM MDT
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  • 6988
    How many digits?  
      June 30, 2017 2:21 PM MDT
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  • 44600
    An infinite number, of course.
      June 30, 2017 4:23 PM MDT
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  • 6988
    I can touch the end of my nose with my tongue.  Wait. What?  
      June 30, 2017 2:19 PM MDT
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  • 44600
    Anyone can do that. Can you lick your eyebrows?

      June 30, 2017 4:26 PM MDT
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  • 7126
    So I guess this isn't the place to say I can suck a golf ball through a garden hose.  
      June 30, 2017 4:26 PM MDT
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  • 44600
    You are a Queen. And I can roll a bowling ball up a flight of stairs with my tongue.
      July 1, 2017 3:53 PM MDT
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  • 7126
    Whew, is it hot in here?
      July 1, 2017 4:51 PM MDT
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