I picked up on this train of thought while reading the TMMB.

Any of you guys have any wierd talents/mild superpowers?

Mine would be the extraordinary ability to predict wheteher or not people are aproaching. I'm best with police and aproaching freight trains (as odd as it sounds). 

Just glancing at main street for a few seconds will tell me whther or not a train or cop is aproaching. I'm usually right on top of the time. I can guess, usually, within 5 to 10 minutes for a train, and about 2 to 3 for an aproaching patrol.

I don't know how I do it. I think it has something to do with traffic patterns, or something. 

evillepaintball wrote: what about the power of flight

IN B4 WGP.

evillepaintball wrote: i always check my cell phone within 1-2 seconds of recieving a message or a call, if im expecting it.  also, i look at the clock at 9:11 twice every day.

Yeah, I've done that a few times in the last week. Timing is one of my things. But, above all else, it's patterns in general. Especially patterns of movement.

I can be following along behind someone on the road and after a few seconds of watching them move (somewhere between 5 to 30 seconds) I can tell you most of their habits. Especially their turn signal habits, speed fluctuations and selected turning radiuses. That kind of thing...

I think I have too much time on my hands.

Invulnerability. Er, dumb luck I guess. By all rights, I should be dead. I've been trapped under a boulder, chased by a large waterspout, stepped on a live extension cord (of which I connected two wires, evidently, sending sparks and a lot of voltage my way. If I wasn't wearing boots, I'd probably be dead), fell down some stairs while holding a loaded firearm, among other things. Feel free to ask about any of those events, and I'll go into further detail.

Maybe there is a God watching my sorry behind...

/me knocks on wood

evillepaintball wrote: also, i look at the clock at 9:11 twice every day.

Lawlz, I do the same thing every freakin day. I think it's because I saw a nut theory right after 9-11 saying the one of the planes hit at exactly 9:11. Ever since then, I just take notice. Weird that other people do the same thing.

Otherwise, as someone else has already pointed out, the only ability I have that's sometimes kind of odd is the ability to read people. I can pretty much tell you anything about a person by just reading their facial expressions in a five minute conversation.

bravecoward wrote: remembering dates

Me too.

I can always point to north.

DeTrevni- story time. Fall down stairs with loaded firearm..?

High Voltage wrote: I don't catch it that often but I lol when I glance at a clock with 4:04.

I'd be tempted to say "4:04 work not found" and quit whatever I'm doing.

I have made spaghetti so much in the past years that I can be sitting down watchign TV and the natural clock inside my head will tell me subconsciously I need to go cheack the timer, and as I get up and get to the kitchen, the timer goes off.

Happens nearly every time.

Brihard: Okay, I must warn this tale is going to be full of no-no's and redneckery, as I do live in the country now.

So, recently, my cousin and his friend came over to where I lived at my grandma's place, armed to the teeth (shotguns, rifles and pistols) asking me if I wanted to "shoot some guns." Naturally, I couldn't turn that down. After some plinking into the pond for a bit, I remember my uncle has a few rifles stashed around the place, one of 'em being an AK-22, an Italian replica of an AK-47 that shoots .22LR. So I grab that, shove 30 rounds into the magazine, and head out. My grandma's cabin is elevated, so I rested the muzzle on the railing of the porch to get some good angles on turtles that were foolish enough to stick their head above the water (open sites + decent distance + .22 + very small target = a lot of missing...). I take a few shots then proceed to attempt to walk down the stairs of the porch to join the others. Not a staircase, but there are five decently tall stairs there, so it isn't flat either. Of course it rained earlier that day, and the wood of the stairs was rather slippery. So I give a dramatic speech directed to my cousin and his friend saying something along the lines of, "If any of you do something stupid and I get killed, I'm going to haunt you for ever." But I didn't quite make it that far. I got to "I'm going..." then my foot slipped on the top stair, sending me flying, AK in hand. Fortunately, I'm not entirely an idiot, and had put the saftey on when I was done shooting, and had I not done that, I'm sure there would have been some bullets in the air. Needless to say, there were some good laughs while I nursed a sore behind. My power is to be able to survive sheer stupidity.

Disclaimer: While that story may sound like "OMG, what ignorant rednecks," we aren't actually that dumb. All firing lanes were controlled, all firarms were either breech-open or unloaded until fired, and all shooters were aware of each other's position. We just didn't live anywhere near a firing range, so we made use of the country. I happened to be a victim of circumstance. Had a loaded gun, put my foot in a bad place and confirmed that gravity still worked.

Benjichang wrote: I can sleep 12 hours

I slept for 21 hours once.

Hysteria wrote: DeTrevni wrote: High Voltage wrote: Glassjaw wrote: I can tell every time a TV is turned on from the sound of the static. Hail me. Same. Wow, I forgot all about that.  I do have superpowers after all!  Yes!

That's just hearign the high pitch noise the TV is emitting. Not that special, as nearly every child can do the same.

jmac3 wrote: I have the strangest feelings of Deja Vu all the time. That means I'm psychic. I do mean like all the time. I remember an exact position of people, and an exact conversation until the "Whoa Deja Vu".

I get that quite often too.  Its very annoying, because with most instances I get a feeling that something bad is going to happen, but normally nothing does.

Da Hui wrote: I once saw a Raptor in the woods off of 210.

You sure it was the 210?  I didn't think they went that far South.