My moderate skill at hacky sack has surely prevented many things that I’ve dropped from becoming damaged.
I’ve got a weird version of "net lazy"motivation. Anything I can do now to make a future task easier, I am strongly motivated to do. Anything that would be easier if I wait for [blank] I will ignore until the ideal moment that would make it the easiest.
It oftentimes leads to peculiar optimizations, but it has worked surprisingly well for me so far.
This is exactly what spurs me to wash my dishes right after using them. It’s much less stressful to clean a single plate & fork now, than to return to a sink full of dirty dishes later. I’d rather just get it over with while it’s still easy to do.
Yep, exactly this. Wash the plates and silverware now before stuff gets dried on there… Except that casserole dish with the crispy baked on border of crust. That is soaking for a couple hours to save me a little effort. I’ll was every dish but two just because it’ll be easier later.
I have an extremely high tolerance to mundane, repetitive tasks because of my vivid imagination. I can just keep doing the same mindless bullshit all day while I’m somewhere else in my head.
I have long legs and a long torso. It makes holding snacks out of the reach of my partner way easier.
Neat handed, so good at caulking and cake decorating. Not afraid to figure things out or make mistakes that helps with a lot of stuff and is less helpful with some other stuff.
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How many parts are we talking about? Something like a washing machine has only few ways to go back together, even if you take it all the way apart, which is a massive bonus with these highly engineered things like home appliances. Things that need to go back together in the same relative orientation etc. like engines are a different story.
Not who you responded to, but I did this to an engine after tearing it apart 3 years before.
It’s a weird skill, just being mechanically inclined and a bit ADHD to know how shit just works and goes together.
Amazing skill to have!
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Hahaha oh boy are you living the life! Where would you rather be!
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I can carry 3 full pint glasses in one hand and 2 in the other. If they’re empty, I can carry 4 in one hand and 3 in the other. It comes in handy more than I would expect
Remarkably limber & agile & can contort myself into small tight tricky spaces, and balance on unstable surfaces, and climb anything.
What kind of everyday tasks does that help with?
Regular expressions
I really wish I’d spent a day learning regex 2 decades ago or so.
End up finding more complicated ways around everything because I never learned it properly.
Spreadsheets:
When I was a kid I did gymnastics, and skateboarded/rollerbladed. This combination of activities meant I was falling on my ass all the god damn time.
It also means that I am so accustomed to falling, that even as I age, those instincts survive, and in turn, help me survive. When I fall, I tuck, I roll, I break my fall with any number of instinctual responses. This has lead to me surviving some scary falls I’ve taken whilst home alone (off a ladder, in the shower, fainting once when I got up from a long squat), and I think will help me survive more in my elder years.
Same here. It took me a while to realize not everyone rode bike or skated then ate shit as kids so now they eat shit.
That’s great now, also have you considered working to improve your balance so you stop falling doing normal everyday tasks?
You might be so accustomed to falling your entire life, maybe it hasn’t occurred to you that falling off ladders and falling in the shower and getting dizzy from squatting to the point you fall over when you get up, those are not normal or healthy events. Quite the opposite of normal & healthy.
Poker face.
No matter what I am thinking internally, it does not show externally. Essential skill for customer service.
I do not have a good poker face, I think more customers need to get laughed at.
It would be good for some of them.
Oh, some of them need laughed or yelled at, for certain.
I, however, need continued employment.
ability to troubleshoot logically. if something isn’t working, I have a knack of figuring out why, but maybe have to lookup how to fix it.
I can cook and I’m good at it, I know how to grow veggies, I know how to fix things, both mechanical and electrical/electronical. But the best skill I have is that I know how to spend time when wifi/power is down.
Multitasking really simple tasks. I can do three errands around the house at the same time, and I’m really good at bartending multiple drinks simultaneously. I love cooking because I’m really efficient and time multiple dishes perfectly.
