Do you have a unique talent?

[Jocko]

I can spin most throw pillows, forever. So far there are about 3 people that are impressed by this, grandkids.

 

[BJintheUK]

Not one of mine, but when I was young, one of my friends could make a half brick bounce across water. I've never seen anyone else who could do this, but somehow he could spin it so fast that it would skim across a pond like a flat stone. He could also throw a ball further and faster than anyone else I knew, and could also whistle with his fingers in his mouth louder than anyone else.

 

[Murrmurr]

Yes, I can play the spoons. I've never met anyone else who does, so it must be fairly rare. I don't consider this any great gift to the world though.

That's nostalgia for me. I spent my childhood on my grampa's dairy, me and my parents and siblings, and neighboring farmers and their families came over most Saturday evenings and some holidays to play music and dance and generally party out in the hay barn. Gramps played his accordion and there was a fiddler, and guitar and banjo players, and an old farmer named Dieter played his home-made 3-string bucket bass and his wife played the spoons.

Her name was Ilsa, but everyone called her Liz. Liz and Dieter had to have been well into their 70s, and most of her fingers were crooked and bumpy from arthritis and old fractures, but man, her hands were a blur while she played those things. And the sounds she could get from them was mind-boggling...to me, they were. Sounded like a tap dancer, a wooden shoe clogger, an iron-shod horse, and a flamenco dancer all got together to do a river-dance.

Such good times! Thanks for the recall

 

[Dr.Colosso]

Oh wow! I had never heard of it.

My mom's family drummed on pots and pans. When my dad visited for the first time he was like: What's this? They were with 9 siblings.

 

[MoBeans]

It's beartiful, MoBeans

Thank you. I put a lot of work into it

 

[MoBeans]

Beautiful, MoBeans! And what is that impressive building in the background?

Thanks. That is a private house that has some history to it. It was the Baxendale estate back in the early part of last century. He invented the square toed shoe and after he made his fortune he spent a lot of it on starting a group associated with animal welfare. Friends of Animals or something like that. He would hold parties in his house with a lot of the intellectuals from Boston and New York where they would sit around and discuss sciences and philosophy. There is a mausoleum by the waters edge. In it is one of his favorite horses, or so the story goes. Over the door it says "Love is Eternal"

 

[JBR]

Yes, I can play the spoons. I've never met anyone else who does, so it must be fairly rare. I don't consider this any great gift to the world though.
More popular perhaps, I make jewelry. It relaxes me a lot and this is desirable. I get a lot of compliments on my stuff because I wear everything I make. I don't take orders when people find out I make my stuff because that might take the fun out of it and I'd like to keep it a leisure activity at least for a while longer.

Maybe you've posted pics of some jewelry. I don't think I've seen them, can you tell me on what thread(s)? If you haven't posted any, why not show us now?

 

[old medic]

Yes, I can play the spoons. I've never met anyone else who does,

I can... and have my Great-Grandfathers bones he learned to play as a kid.

 

[Sunny]

Yes, a pretty useless one. And I wouldn't exactly call it a talent.

I seem to have a natural, built-in sense of what time it is! If I wake up in the middle of the night, I'll think, "It's probably around 2:30" and then I look at the clock. It's always very close to that time. The same is true throughout the day. It doesn't matter how recently I looked at a clock or saw the time on my phone. It's almost like having an ear for music. (Which is another useless talent I have, although I used it in my piano playing days.)

 

[oldman]

I can fly passenger jets. I have flown all Boeing planes.
737, 747, 757 and 767. I trained on the DC-10, but never flew it with passengers onboard.

 

[dusty]

I can fly passenger jets. I have flown all Boeing planes.
737, 747, 757 and 767. I trained on the DC-10, but never flew it with passengers onboard.

It has always been my dream to be a piolet in any plane! Hats off to you!

 

[oldman]

It has always been my dream to be a piolet in any plane! Hats off to you!

Thank you for the compliment.

You are never too old to learn. A lot of small airports gives anyone interested in flying a free lesson. That gives you a chance to find out if you would want to pursue getting your Private Pilot License, or PPL. You will have to have a minimum of 40 hours before taking the test. Most students take around 60 hours.

Flying was everything to me. I would have flown seven days a week if the FAA would have allowed it. I didn’t fly International because I wasn’t crazy about flying over water, although I did fly the 747 from Chicago to Hawaii for two years.

 

[oscash]

I can play the Castanets, not perfectly but can keep time with tunes. Only do it when I'm alone.

 

[dusty]

I used to really like to drive to places. No trip planning, just go. When I was younger I drove everywhere in the USA. I drove to and from Montana several times, and to Maine, NC, SC, drove to almost every state and then since I love flying so much I did that too.