Hidden (Useless) Talents, Anyone?

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Mine is baton twirling. I took a class at the Y when I was eight, thinking about prancing around in a sparkly bathing suit. I never mastered any of the throwing/catching moves, but 38 years later I can still do most of it.

Juggling. I tried it one day when I about 13 and found I could it ! ! I never perform because the Missus says I look stiff and squinty, concentrating too much.

Mine is finding weird little things on the ground, and sometimes I'm good at locating objects others have lost.
Today I found a piece of circuit board and a quarter.

Doing impressions of Beavis & ButtHead

I can speak in a variety of foreign accents and do impressions.

I can gargle Oh! Canada.

I can look at a powerline and immediately tell what voltage it has by the type of insulators it has.

I can play wax-paper cough drop / candy wrappers like musical instruments.

I purse my lips inward and stretch the paper across the opening and blow lightly. The tone and pitch can be changed by a combination of stretching the paper tighter and inc/decreasing the distance between lips and paper. Sharp note transitions can be achieved by making a "T" sound with the tongue. I would compare it to the bugle or trombone since the notes are achieved only by practice and feel.

And the first successful tune was another "O Canada"...

I can tell who's walking around the house by the sound of their footsteps.

Finding local small to medium, and a few large sized animals. It's pretty much useless unless I am very poor and in need of meat to support myself, but I find it amusing to know the animal's way of life and to find them.

Give me a letter and I'll tell you it's position in the alphabet, immediately. (Comes from my lifelong obsession with numbers and letters)

I was going to start a similar topic myself.

I know a joke on every occassion, I collect jokes in my mental store, just like Blaine the Mono collected riddles.

I can read really very fast with no special courses attended and I'm a walking spelling vocabulary (I'm not sure if that's THAT useless, though).

I can program myself to wake up at a particular hour chosen by me.

I generally have creative talents, I can do something out of nothing (like decorations - I once made one cool Christmas decoration for a school contest in high school).

I can play the "Apples" melody on flute (a kids' song I learnt as a child at school in music class).

I can whistle (but that's what most people can do so I'm not sure if I should add this - but I can whistle only one melody, the famous Kwai Bridge).

I'm also a fast eater. On that note, I once stuffed a WHOLE sandwich in mah mouth.