I've never eaten Taco Bell...ever. People think it's funny, so now I make it my life's mission to never eat it. Spoiler alert, I don't think I'm missing much.
I didn’t know this was a flex, but same. I’ve never eaten it, and because of just that I never will.
I can drive a stick shift. This is more impressive to people than it should be.
Me, too!
It is even more of a flex to say that you can drive manual when you are outside the US (I think you are an expat, or?). They have such a stereotype of Americans and how they cannot drive stick.
My students are always impressed when I tell them I can drive manual and have more experience driving manual cars than automatic ones. I actually prefer manuals and my latest car purchase was a manual (this sounds like Penelope from SNL, sorry, so…).
Sadly, they are slowly disappearing in Europe. I got a great deal on a manual.
Post by wanderingback on Jul 28, 2023 11:12:08 GMT -5
Some of the things posted apply to me but I couldn’t think of anything good!
I guess one thing that came to mind is that I really "don’t sweat the small stuff." It definitely takes a lot for me to get mad. Can’t remember the last time I was mad or pissed about something in my personal life.
*Obviously I’m mad about the shitshow that is happening in this country, but hopefully you all know what I mean.
I'm really good at solving all types of problems. I'm often confused when someone else can't figure out what to do because... you just fix the problem? I think I must be missing something.
I am like the female MacGyver. I can look at any object and find so many functions for them by just looking at them. When I was working in an office, I used a super tall allen wrench for a TV to be used as a paper towel dispenser lodged in some shelves. Have a wardrobe malfunction? I can find a solution on the spot by just looking at objects around me.
Post by chilerellanos on Jul 28, 2023 12:18:45 GMT -5
I’m really good in an emergency.
I just got my old people labs back (cholesterol, thyroid, diabetes, etc), and the doctor said my labs were impressively good! (I’m 45, and my dad had triple bypass at 39 and my mom had a stroke at 42)
I don’t get embarrassed. Like I remember that feeling from being in my teens and 20s but it’s like that trigger was surgically removed once I turned 30.
I am like the female MacGyver. I can look at any object and find so many functions for them by just looking at them. When I was working in an office, I used a super tall allen wrench for a TV to be used as a paper towel dispenser lodged in some shelves. Have a wardrobe malfunction? I can find a solution on the spot by just looking at objects around me.
Me too!
I can also write words in cursive in any direction and have them read correctly when you turn the paper and/or put up to a mirror. For example: - My standard upright left to right - Upright right to left - Upside down left to right - Upside down right to left
Thanks to working for a boss who liked to have me sit in his office while he was on the phone with clients for hours at a time, and who also had the most atrocious handwriting I've ever seen (and I taught HS English for 16 years) I can very easily read pretty much any handwriting upside down.
Some of your posts reminded me of a more useful one. I am really hard to fluster and remain unruffled in most stressful situations. I tend to have jobs that involved coordinating live events and I've had people in every job comment on how well I handled things that could have gone of the rails or completely stressed out your average person. This also makes me very calm in emergency situations (even potentially life threatening ones).
I really think this qualifies as my "adhd superpower" because I've had to deal with a lot of things going unexpectedly wrong in my life so I've gotten very good at fixing things on the fly.
Some of the things posted apply to me but I couldn’t think of anything good!
I guess one thing that came to mind is that I really "don’t sweat the small stuff." It definitely takes a lot for me to get mad. Can’t remember the last time I was mad or pissed about something in my personal life.
*Obviously I’m mad about the shitshow that is happening in this country, but hopefully you all know what I mean.
I can always guess the time correctly plus or minus 5 minutes.
I'm thisclose to getting back to 100% on Wordle.
#nerdflex
lol. I hear the mosque prayers 5 times a day, and even though it slightly changes throughout the year, I usually predict in my head, without even thinking of it, within 5 or fewer minutes before it goes off. That does make having an internal clock in between easier
Post by basilosaurus on Jul 28, 2023 16:09:50 GMT -5
I can fold my tongue in half (not taco. Tip to midway) and have it stay there. Also I can touch my nose with my tongue which my mom could do, too. As a kid people thought this was freakish and cool
I can fold my tongue in half (not taco. Tip to midway) and have it stay there. Also I can touch my nose with my tongue which my mom could do, too. As a kid people thought this was freakish and cool
This reminds me. In high school I volunteered at a nursing home and one day a lady called me over to show me her trick of touching her nose with the tip of her tongue. I was impressed and said, "Wow, how can you do that?!" And she shrugged and goes, "I HAVE NO TEETH!!"
I've never eaten Taco Bell...ever. People think it's funny, so now I make it my life's mission to never eat it. Spoiler alert, I don't think I'm missing much.
I didn’t know this was a flex, but same. I’ve never eaten it, and because of just that I never will.
Another Taco Bell virgin here. What's funny is I lived two blocks from Taco Bell for four years in St. Louis. But I never had the desire. (Perhaps not coincidentally, I never smoked pot while I was in that apartment. XD)
I can fold my tongue in half (not taco. Tip to midway) and have it stay there. Also I can touch my nose with my tongue which my mom could do, too. As a kid people thought this was freakish and cool
This reminds me. In high school I volunteered at a nursing home and one day a lady called me over to show me her trick of touching her nose with the tip of her tongue. I was impressed and said, "Wow, how can you do that?!" And she shrugged and goes, "I HAVE NO TEETH!!"
LOL I don't have a particularly large nose nor did my mom. It's either just low set it we have long tongues. We both have longer narrow faces. Idk
I didn’t know this was a flex, but same. I’ve never eaten it, and because of just that I never will.
Another Taco Bell virgin here. What's funny is I lived two blocks from Taco Bell for four years in St. Louis. But I never had the desire. (Perhaps not coincidentally, I never smoked pot while I was in that apartment. XD)
Definitely not a coincidence. I've had it once in my life. My then bf was a stoner and he and other stoner friends were smoking a shitton. I didn't partake. But I went with them because I was starved. Never again. And I got just a bean quesadilla which seemed safe
Post by simpsongal on Jul 28, 2023 17:17:53 GMT -5
I can paint a room in 2 hrs - cutting in free hand.
I can write a concise memo or email on a complex topic 10xs faster than anyone on my team and get it close to final the first time (they’ll take multiple iterations).
I can bake just about any fruit pie with scratch crust without a recipe in record time.
"Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
I can drive a stick shift. This is more impressive to people than it should be.
Me, too!
It is even more of a flex to say that you can drive manual when you are outside the US (I think you are an expat, or?). They have such a stereotype of Americans and how they cannot drive stick.
My students are always impressed when I tell them I can drive manual and have more experience driving manual cars than automatic ones. I actually prefer manuals and my latest car purchase was a manual (this sounds like Penelope from SNL, sorry, so…).
Sadly, they are slowly disappearing in Europe. I got a great deal on a manual.
I’m not abroad anymore, but my European family took driving a manual for granted and just thought my ex was a loser because he couldn’t drive my grandma’s 5 speed when we visited.
I don’t have a car now but would love to get a manual again.
"Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”