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League of Useless Superpowers
Aug. 23rd, 2009 04:37 pmSo yeah. Time to 'fess up: I have a useless superpower.
No really, I do. And it's not being a "weirdness magnet", because that's really an innate quality - something that I am, not something that I do.
My preternatural talent (which is the preferred and politically correct term), is being able to tell you the time.... I mean without a watch, silly. ♥ Usually to within a 5 minute accuracy, too, though that improves markedly if: 1) I'm doing it fairly often like daily, and 2) I'm concentrating. When I stop and think about it, I can... don't know how to say this in a way that doesn't sound strange... I can "feel" how much time has gone past.
An example, if you'd like: Yesterday when Sher and I were traveling after the movie, we'd made a couple of stops and we'd just gotten into the car. The Echobo doesn't have a clock, since Twig's stick-on one fell off the dashboard. I looked over at her, and said, "We've been out a while. It's about 2:10... (pause) more like 2:15. We should be getting home."
Sher just gave me that look. The "Shyeah, smartass" one, and pulled out her cell phone. She watched as the time flipped to 2:15. SCORE!
*laughs* Please note that this talent has no application in the real world unless someone cares to use me as a human stopwatch. (No, I don't THINK so, ^^;;)
No really, I do. And it's not being a "weirdness magnet", because that's really an innate quality - something that I am, not something that I do.
My preternatural talent (which is the preferred and politically correct term), is being able to tell you the time.... I mean without a watch, silly. ♥ Usually to within a 5 minute accuracy, too, though that improves markedly if: 1) I'm doing it fairly often like daily, and 2) I'm concentrating. When I stop and think about it, I can... don't know how to say this in a way that doesn't sound strange... I can "feel" how much time has gone past.
An example, if you'd like: Yesterday when Sher and I were traveling after the movie, we'd made a couple of stops and we'd just gotten into the car. The Echobo doesn't have a clock, since Twig's stick-on one fell off the dashboard. I looked over at her, and said, "We've been out a while. It's about 2:10... (pause) more like 2:15. We should be getting home."
Sher just gave me that look. The "Shyeah, smartass" one, and pulled out her cell phone. She watched as the time flipped to 2:15. SCORE!
*laughs* Please note that this talent has no application in the real world unless someone cares to use me as a human stopwatch. (No, I don't THINK so, ^^;;)
