<p>Oh I thought of another great superpower! I always know the right size container for leftovers.</p>
<p>The kids claim I make money doing very little compared to what they do.</p>
<p>Yea, my superpower is making (a little) money doing what I love and helping make the world a better place in the process. :)</p>
<p>mathmom, I have the container size superpower, too! Along with the load the car so everything fits and nothing makes irritating noises super power.</p>
<p>I have the superpower of recalling ridiculously random and trivial facts and events.</p>
<p>Travel planning is my superpower. At the moment, however, my S would say that nagging is my superpower, and he wishes I would lose it.</p>
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<p>My nose is like a GC/MS - it can detect the presence a few molecules of a particular substance and determine its identity. Never had to use it as a breathalyzer on my kids, because they weren’t into partying or questionable substances (my nose always confirmed that), but I can determine if Alaska served Alaskan Amber or leftover Longboard when I pick up DH from the airport after his busines trip 
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<p>Additionally, I’m good at smelling a rat when someone tries to pull a bunch of BS. My D called me The CSI Mom. :)</p>
<p>I guess I also have the tetris packer and travel agent powers.</p>
<p>My superpower is a spatial sense. I know in advance how to pack all of the dorm stuff to fit in the car in the only arrangement that allows it.</p>
<p>I can look at a trunk, or a room, or whatever and tell that something won’t fit in a space because it’s a quarter of an inch off, and I’m right. </p>
<p>I also have a super memory for visual things, including seemingly insignificant details from long ago, like what my D wore on her first day to kindergarten, or what I wore to my first day in kindergarten.
However, I cannot remember numbers (a superpower that D has) even if my life depended on it. I can’t even remember my own cell phone number.</p>
<p>I can use my lightening speed to run several quick errands in the last few minutes before the kids need to be picked up and still make it on time. I honed this skill driving pre-school carpool, and have been a zen master ever since. (I used to see my fellow super-heroes at the Walmart checkout 2 minutes before pickup also. Of course we were all in disguise to protect ourselves from ordinary citizens, but we would nod to each other to acknowledge the sisterhood.)</p>
<p>I have always said in my next life I will be an air-traffic controller, because this superpower allows me to re-arrange a day’s worth of plans in a split second when something changes, and still get everything accomplished. You laugh, but have you ever met that person who does not have this skill…I pick up her slack!</p>
<p>Love this thread, btw…spit out my water reading about “making food appearing in the fridge that wasn’t there”</p>
<p>My other superpower is the ability to quickly whip up a tasty, nutritious, homemade dinner 95% of the time using the ingredients available in the house. I’m also known to make homemade dinners magically appear on the lanai table when we vacation in Hawaii. :)</p>
<p>^ I’d give up my amazing superpowers for the superpower to magically and instantly transport myself to that lanai in Hawaii.</p>
<p>^^^Heavens, yes!</p>
<p>I have the superpower to remember lyrics to songs that I a) haven’t heard in years, b) have heard only once.</p>
<p>I like this thread. I have a bad power; when I touch electronics they may stop working (cellphones, computers), although someone else may get them to work right after that. I think my electrical field interferes. Oh- oh does that make me crazy?</p>
<p>I am good at packing car trunks and the like, and I do find lost objects (even in MIL’s house over the telephone), so I guess I am a total waste.</p>
<p>Anothermom2 - DH has the same superpower of electrical fields! He constantly has to bring cell phones back because they stop functioning for him.</p>
<p>I also have a super sense of smell! I’m like a bloodhound.
AND, I have “instant jingle memorization.”</p>
<p>…you know, those are both more a curse than a blessing…</p>
<p>I have a super sense of hearing. Seriously. I can hear things other people can’t hear. </p>
<p>Also, I can often tell what will happen in a movie or book long before others can. I predict it when watching a movie at home with DH and then I just nod my head as what I predicted unfolds.</p>
<p>I can cook a decent dinner 365 days a year (if needed) without consulting a cookbook. Including all yeast-based breads. My superpower seems to be being able to “see” how things will taste ahead of time.</p>
<p>ETA and that includes cuisines from Indian to Cajun to Japanese to French, Greek, Russian, Pacific NW to the keys…it’s not like I cook meat loaf more than once a year.</p>
<p>I have a superpower of being able to eyeball measure anything almost every time. I amazed my friends when they came over the other month as I was hanging photos on the walls. I found a spot that looks good and centered and whacked in a nail. Then I backed up and look at my nail and i’m like great, now I just have to put the rest of the nails 18 inches below the ceiling and they will all be even. I’ll grab another nail, center it, eyeball down 18 inches and hang it up. They offered to help and I was like no thanks it will be quicker if I do this myself because you will want to measure and we’ll be at this all night if we measure all of these. My friends refused to admit that I did what they just witnessed, got out a tape measure and were astonished I was spot on with each measurement. Lol. This superpower in turn makes me a very good tetris packer as well. I helped my one friend move and wound up getting about twice as much stuff in his vehicle then he thought he would be able to, while still allowing him to see out his back window.</p>
<p>I’m also a human calculator ( i can multiply divide figure out percentages figure out how much you need to improve to meet your goal etc in no time. my old boss actually stopped bringing calculators to meetings because she knew she had me there.)</p>
<p>I am also a tetris packer. I see an overlap between CC parent and 3D visualization skills.</p>
<p>I am “gifted” at doing laundry and have special stain removing powers.</p>
<p>I can find lost objects, untie knots and make magical Target, Michaels and grocery store runs for last minute school projects.</p>
<p>(however I have no idea how this post was titled “and” and no idea how to get rid of that)</p>