<p>Absolutely no hook. Not even a thumbtack or a pin, unless one counts being skilled at wasting time a hook.</p>
<p>I have ESP.</p>
<p>Maybe I should clarify the above. I do not not “see dead people” or anything like that. I just “know” when things are going to happen, often. Once I had a very eerie experience as an 11 year old where I “knew” that something dangerous was going to happen that night “nearby.” I made this statement to my dad out riding bikes together but he did not think anything about it. That night, a prominent Jewish businessman in our town was narrowly saved by the FBI staking out his house when a KKK duo tried to bomb the house. I freaked the next day when I woke up and heard. Ever since I have tried to “listen” when I have these feelings. Sometimes I have wondered if it, in accordance with my religion, is the holy spirit, or if it just a “gift” I have. But I am often predicting things will occur. Now, if I could only predict where my S will choose to go to college!!!</p>
<p>If we didn’t take the drugs during childbirth, do you think we could have them now?</p>
<p>frazzled1</p>
<p>LOL!!!</p>
<p>frazzled: I hear you!</p>
<p>tabbyz: I used to have this, too but it left me</p>
<p>In summer camp when I was about 12 I had a prescient dream that a specific kid would get bucked off a specific horse & break his leg. Luckily I told someone about the dream, because it was so vivid. The following day that specific kid was bucked off the specific horse & broke his arm. I have had dreams that actually happened later several times but not since age 22.</p>
<p>I do agility with my dog (a standard poodle) and SCUBA dive. I am in demand as a substitute teacher in math, chemistry, biology, physics, English, and social studies. (Notice: no PE! No music! No arts!) I can write a passable (if dry) description of how to use an piece of technical equipment. I am an excellent and creative researcher–I can find things in libraries and on the internet that people didn’t know were there. (A corollary to this is that I usually ask for citations when people tell me things.) I am somewhat of an over-literal gnurd.</p>
<p>Yesterday I was able to persuade two high school students that the mere force of my angry glare would set their clothes on fire. This was verified by one of the other students, who told the class that his brother (who had me for science some years before and is also a friend of my son’s) had seen it done.</p>
<p>frazzled1: send some of the drugs my way also 
(love your screen name, describes me at this time with S undecided on college still)
Wow, SBmom, it is good to know I am not alone. Incredible about your premonition with the horse accident. The KKK bombing thing still haunts me till this day. It happened 4 blocks from my house and a police chase ensued; a policeman was shot through the heart and lived, which was amazing in the '60s. BTW the KKK guy who survived the chase (his female accomplice didn’t) went to prison, totally reformed, and today ministers a multi-cultural church. (Thomas Tarrants) Now that’s amazing in any era.
And now you know…the rest of the story!</p>
<p>See and think in three dimensions like nobody’s business. Draw intricate maps, diagrams and architecture plans with great ease. Intuitive drawing and painting facility. </p>
<p>Daring. Have served as the visionary for clients and non-profit institutions. Big picture thinker. Can implement radical change with ease.</p>
<p>Great negotiator. Rarely walk away from the table without the goods.</p>
<p>Photographic memory for numbers and certain stats (not baseball though R!).</p>
<p>Reknowned party hostess. Often told that I missed my calling as an event planner. Don’t consider that a compliment :). </p>
<p>Very good, intuitive cook. Speed read recipes and improvise from there. Still serve candlelight dinner five times a week. Which S2 loathes. Begs to eat in front of the TV. (Candlelight and linen improves childrens’ manners, according to my 15 year in-home research).</p>
<p>Scary organizational skills. Travel itinerary through the Amazon jungle, massive construction project in foreign country–you name it I can plan it.</p>
<p>Beloved friend, daughter, colleague, mother, wife. </p>
<p>Average athlete. Bike, ski, golf, hike, run, snorkle, kayak, canoe–all without distinction. Ran the NYC marathon in ‘99, toward the rear of the pack. By the time I ran through Queens, a local jumped out in front of me and said, "You better be runnin’ through this neighborhood!"</p>
<p>Booty shaker. That’s right, I can shake my tail feather with the best of them.</p>
<p>Won a contest for hula-hooping for 30 non-stop minutes
Can talk and sing just like Sissy Spacek
Can play the piano by ear
Can stand on one foot with eyes closed for about 10 minutes
Can I get into Harvard? LOL</p>
<p>curmudgeon - Topsiders 
???</p>
<p>Your image is destroyed in my mind. I need to have a stiff drink and go lie down.</p>
<p>tabbyz - ESP? Then you can stop wondering where S is going to go. Go lie down without the stiff drink and visualize it out.</p>
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that would explain the Topsiders</p>
<p>Marite, </p>
<p>Methinks you are not telling the whole story!</p>
<p>My hook:</p>
<p>The one they’ll use to drag me off the stage like a truly untalented person.</p>
<p>LOL Sybbie :)</p>
<p>Yesterday I was able to persuade two high school students that the mere force of my angry glare would set their clothes on fire.>></p>
<p>Whoa Dmd, can you teach ME how to do that? :)</p>
<p>Booty shaker. That’s right, I can shake my tail feather with the best of them. </p>
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<p>Cheers, why does this particular talent not surprise me? Gosh, I wish you lived a bit closer so I could go to one of your parties and watch you shake your booty! :)</p>
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They look the best with my Ray-Ban Wayfarers. Sort of a “Brian Wilson meets Roy Orbison at a pizza buffet”, or maybe “dock jockey”-take your pick. Probably some (before now anyway) unrecognized connect to teenage time spent at the Miamarina and Key West bumming rides. Also look the best with my Hi-why-yun shirts. Sorta completes the ensemble.</p>
<p>(Yep. Sorry to disappoint, jmmom.Top-siders without socks. Dead of winter. With shorts or a suit. I do own boots, but I only wear them occasionally. Plain rough brown leather cowboy boots. They don’t look good with shorts.:eek: )</p>
<p>Carolyn: the persuasion part or the actual setting of clothes on fire?</p>
<p>The key to the persuasion part is high credibility (hugely enhanced by the brother of the former student here–it helps a LOT to have a shill in cases like this–I also made sure the other science teachers (who know me) had been prepped to say I could do it) and a plausible mechanism. My previous life as a chemistry teacher helps here, because these students HAVE seen me do things like add a penny to “water” and create huge clouds of brown smoke and turn the “water” blue. (Extra credit to the CC members who can give the chemical formula for this reaction AND explain why it helps to use a 1983 or earlier penny.)</p>
<p>Oh, oh, teacher I know! (waving raised hand):</p>
<p>Cu + 2 H2SO4 –> CuSO4 + SO2 + 2 H2O</p>
<p>The copper sulfate is blue. The sulpher dioxide is the brown gas. 1983 is the last year in which pennies were minted out of pure copper.</p>
<p>What do I win?</p>
<p>I can walk two Great Danes at one time, and still use my other hand to hold my cell phone – and no, I do not have three hands!</p>