Tell Us Something(s) Unusual About Yourself

OneEyedDiva said:
1. My bottom teeth have ridges. When we were doing dental studies for GlaxoSmithKlein a dental technician told me she had never seen adults with teeth like that, only children.
2. I am psychic with the abilities of precognition and psychometry.

3. I am ambidextrous, probably due to teachers trying to make me right handed when I was in grade school.
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how can anyone follow that ? :D
 

Pecos said:
There are things that I do quite well, and things where I fall a little short, but there is nothing about me that is sufficiently outside the normal that it would be considered unusual.

I am content being an "ordinary Joe."
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I'm right there with you, Pecos, being the regular, ordinary, everyday average Jane, that I am. :)
 
Pecos said:
There are things that I do quite well, and things where I fall a little short, but there is nothing about me that is sufficiently outside the normal that it would be considered unusual.

I am content being an "ordinary Joe."
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I could never be an "ordinary Joe" because I am Tony. However, I am not special, just not "Joe". :unsure:

Tony
 
My kindergarten teacher thought I was mild to moderately retarded because I appeared “confused and disoriented” during alphabet and numbers lessons. Thing is, I could read already but nobody knew, not even my parents. My 1st grade teacher totally bought the kindergarten teacher’s assessment and put me in special education class. Back then (at this particular school, anyway), a teacher could just do that and they didn’t have to consult with any sort of professional or even your parents, just the principal. So I basically drew and colored pictures through kindergarten and half of 1st grade.

Then we got a new special ed teacher who thought I was producing some “very insightful artwork” and she had me sent to this place called (something-)Towers to take an IQ test. I had to go 3 times in 3 days and, in the end, scored 161, which back then was labeled “superior”. (Today’s IQ tests are scored differently. If they'd used a current IQ test I probably would have scored around 120-130.)

Needless to say, I went back into a mainstream classroom and after a couple months my 1st grade teacher wanted to skip me through to 2nd but my mom wasn’t having it. The the 2nd grade teacher wanted to put me through to 3rd, and mom said no. This went on till everyone gave up and I was in 5th grade, having skipped no grades. I did well in school aside from being confused about algebra, which nobody uses except math teachers.

Additional fun fact: My first job was Color-Mixer at a well-known housepaint store. My specialty; I could achieve a perfect match to any color, and I usually got it on the first try, within minutes.
 
Aunt Marg said:
Quite the opposite, Liberty.

Not much, but I could definitely stand to lose a few pounds, however, dear husband does remind me that he loves a women with meat on her bones. LOL!
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Amen on that one...used to be needing to lose those few pesky pounds, then my appetite just "reduced" on its own...now I need to gain a few pounds every once in a while... go figure, huh!
 
tbeltrans said:
Funny how we Americans learn primarily only English, but can learn to swear in several different languages. I remember when I was growing up, there was always some kid who picked up swear words in another language from his or her parents (since most of our parents or grandparents came from somewhere else in the world) and then bragged about it at school. We all learned those words fairly quickly.

Tony
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Never learned any swear words .. :D
I was a little kid (3-5 yrs. old) left in the company of my maternal grandmother often. She came to this country as a teenager. In her 87 years, she never really learned to speak English at all. My grandfather did though, and he came here as a teenager too.

Of her many grandchildren, maybe about 30 in all, I was the only one to learn to speak Russian with her. But reading and writing the language was way over my head... lol
 
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Liberty said:
Amen on that one...used to be needing to lose those few pesky pounds, then my appetite just "reduced" on its own...now I need to gain a few pounds every once in a while... go figure, huh!
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And those are the key words... "go figure", and pardon the pun! :)

Anytime you want a few extra pounds, just get a hold of me, Liberty, and I'll send a few over to you! LOL!
 
jujube said:
I've never had tonsils. I can curl my tongue and turn it upside down.

I can also see when all the toilet paper is gone off the tube and needs to be replaced, a talent no one else in the house seems to share.
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Ah-ha! Finally, another homemaker that can see what I could see all through the years!

To this day I loathe changing-out an empty roll of toilet paper, not because it's difficult or time-consuming, but because I spent the first 30 years of my marriage doing it, because none of the kids recognized an empty roll, and surprisingly enough, neither did dear husband!
 
One of the more interesting aspects of the internet is that if I ever think I am, or did, something unique, all I have to do is look around the internet to quickly find that thousands, if not millions of people already are, or did, that same thing, and are probably wondering why it took me so long.

Tony
 

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