<p>^^^Aha! The first signs that our superpower convention is being eavesdropped on by some nemesis – Dr. Dirty Socks, methinks!</p>
<p>I can predict what other drivers will do. My kids were amazed, and said I had “driver’s ESP”, but I know I’ve just spent too damn many hours driving and my brain is picking up on little cues.</p>
<p>H will think about moving around a slow driver and I’ll tell him, “don’t bother, he’s turning right soon” and it will magically be true!</p>
<p>But H is the “finder” in our house, and the computer fixer. Much more useful.</p>
<p>Here’s a new superpower that has revealed itself since D went to college: I know exactly what small item she needs/wants and am able to send it in a care package just at the right time. (“Mom, how did you know that I just ran out of hand sanitizer??”)</p>
<p>I can empty the dishwasher in a single bound.</p>
<p>I can miraculously ignore clutter long enough to save my marriage.</p>
<p>I have the find things superpower too. I find money. I found my son’s glasses by the side of the road after they were missing for 2 days by driving around town after midnight and noticing the small glint of the headlight on the metal frame of the glasses. I found my Hs keys back in college (they fell behind his desk.)</p>
<p>My Hs super power is he is the baby whisperer. Even cranky babies with stranger anxiety like him. My Hs other superpower is that he knows stuff about everything, but doesnt show off about it. So its kind of like living with a very humble encyclopedia. </p>
<p>I used to have the remember any phone number power, but then middle age took over and I can hardly remember enough to string a sentence together.</p>
<p>Ahhh Switters, we call my hubby the baby wrangler. I was instantly attracted to him when I noted this super power.</p>
<p>I have an uncanny ability to predict the grocery bill within pennies. I tell the cashier the produce codes, and I know the price of every item.</p>
<p>For some reason, people confide the strangest things to me. A couple people call me “The Vault”.</p>
<p>I used to say I knew my husband’s phone number - it was “Memory 1”. He moved offices and got a new number and now I really don’t know it. My Staples rewards card’s barcode has worn off so I have to give them my telephone number - which is one I haven’t had since 1999. I worry there will be too long between trips and I’ll forget it!</p>
<p>I can navigate through my town knowing exactly when each light will be green, positioning myself in the optimal lane so that I can often coast up to a red and have it turn green without having to hit my breaks. Unfortunately this superpower doesn’t extend to the highway, where I’m invariably in the slowest possible lane on the freeway no matter what.</p>
<p>If it comes to negative superpowers…</p>
<p>Never get behind me at the grocery store. Either I pick the slowest lane behind the lady with a wallet-full of expired coupons, or the guy with a degaussed credit card, or the lady who has to run back for ‘just a sec!’…or the register breaks. Three weeks in a row, once, I got into a line and the power promptly went out in the whole store.</p>
<p>novelisto, I’m always the one with bad luck at the check out line. My sister refuses to check out with me anymore. Oh, the price on this item isn’t coming up. Hold on while i call for a price check. Oh, this fork is coming up at 50 dollars. That can’t be right. hold on while i get a price check. oh, this sweater is supposed to be on sale but its coming up at full price. let me go get another one for you. Oh, this bra doesn’t have a tag on it. Hold on while i call for a price check (I need a price check on a black bra made by blah blah blah.) Talk about embarrassing!!!</p>
<p>I also think there is something in my vehicle that makes traffic lights sense that I am coming because they turn yellow as soon as they see me. Literally. I can drive from my parents house to my house in 45 minutes. My parents can make it in 30 because they never hit a light. I have lived here over two years now and I think over that time I’ve missed maybe one or two lights total… out of like the 10-15 that are in between us each trip!</p>
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<p>Yes! Including complete strangers. Probably because, as my son used to say with exasperation, “Mom, you’ll talk to ANYONE!”</p>
<p>Op here again. I told one of my kids where to find something today she was looking for. When she came back with it from the specified location, she said, “One hundred years ago you would have been burned as a witch.”. :D</p>
<p>I also have the negative superpower of picking the wrong checkout line. I also have the special ability to trip on nothing. My husband is amazed at my ability to trip on lines on the sidewalk, etc.</p>
<p>Happydad lost his glove in the car today. The conversation went like this:</p>
<p>“Where is my other glove?”</p>
<p>“What glove?”</p>
<p>“The other brown one.”</p>
<p>“Where was the first one?”</p>
<p>“Here with my hat. But where is the other one?”</p>
<p>"Where was your hat?'</p>
<p>“In the back seat.”</p>
<p>“Look in the back seat.”</p>
<p>“But it isn’t here.”</p>
<p>“Well, look again.”</p>
<p>“Oh, there is is.”</p>
<p>Happykid is so lucky that I don’t want her to have to live out her life as the child of a murderess.</p>
<p>I don’t have a really good superpower (besides teaching Zumba, which has proven to be a great conversation starter for both S and D).</p>
<p>H has the uncanny ability to predict what time will arrive at our destination on ANY drive. Doesn’t matter if it’s 9 miles or 900. We can say “JustaDad, what time will we be there?” and he will be right, within a minute or two EVERY TIME.</p>