What's Your Superpower?

[the_other_sandy]

No, this isn't a meme. My best friend has a cousin who believes that everyone is born with a superpower. It's just that most people's superpowers are so lame that they don't even notice they have one. I actually have two.

One is the power of cat attraction. If I go to a barn or some other place where semi-feral cats who don't normally seek out human contact hang out, all I have to do is sit down and within five minutes, every cat in the place will be all over me. Occasionally, one will try to follow me home.

One time when I was in high school, my best friend was down in the arena working with her horse while I did my homework on the couch in the tack room. Within minutes, the entire couch was covered in cats. They filled up the cushions, armrests, couch back, the chair I was propping my feet up on, and my legs that were propped up on the chair. There must've been at least twenty-five cats in there with me just keeping me company. I wish I had a picture.

Another time, the BF and I went on vacation to the Soviet Union (back when it was still in one piece). Cats aren't popular pets there, or at least they weren't at the time, but many hotels and restaurants did have a resident cat. The hotel we stayed at in Kiev did. She was a little skittish at first, but she let me pet her once, and after that she would come find me when I was in a common area of the hotel and ask for a petting. She ran away from the other people who were with me.

My other superpower is the ability to make other cars change lanes on the expressway by turning on my turn signal. If I need to change lanes and there's only one gap in traffic, all I have to do is turn on my turn signal and a random car will suddenly change lanes into that gap. Every freaking time.

What's your superpower?

Comments

[ga-unicorn.livejournal.com]

I have the power to makes babies still in the womb stop kicking their mothers and fall asleep. Seriously. My reputation has spread so that pregnant women I have never met (usually from other departments at work) will come to me for therapy. All they have to do is take my hand and utter the magic words "here, feel this!" and the kid will be asleep before my hand touches the belly. I have never felt a baby moving inside it's mommy.

And I, too, have the ability to make people change lanes. I think that must be a fairly common super-power.

Oh! and my sister can make traffic lights change from red to green just by blowing at it. At least she has my niece convinced of it. ;-)

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

And I, too, have the ability to make people change lanes. I think that must be a fairly common super-power.

Maybe it's a built-in feature of car turn signals the manufacturer neglected to mention in the owner's manual.

[samazon13.livejournal.com]

I make babies cry. They must sense how uncomfortable I am around them, because the quietest, happiest babies will start to fuss and cry if I pick them up or someone deposits them in my arms. It's not a good superpower. :(

The only other thing I can think of is that I can stop hiccups by putting my hand on people's throats. That's pretty cool. :)

-Samazon

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

I, too, am very uncomfortable around babies, which must be why their parents can zero in on me in a crowd like nobody's business and demand that I gush at their offspring. I freeze like a deer in the headlights every single time.

The hiccups thing would be cool, especially if you could cure yourself as well as other people. I always manage to get hiccups at the most obviously noticeable times.

You know mine...

[bit-boy.livejournal.com]

I have the ability to walk in, COMPLETELY WITHOUT INTENDING TO DO SO, and find any present intended for me. The spouse has completely given over trying to surprise me. I walk up as they're being paid for in check out lines, accidentally open them as they're delivered, dig them out as we put away other purchases from a shopping trip. At one point, I even passed the spouse driving up to the house with my birthday present (a new bicycle) sticking out of the trunk of the car, because I'd left to go get the mail an hour later or so than usual, and she'd picked that time to drop the bike off, as she KNEW I'd have gotten the mail by then.

Re: You know mine...

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

If your daughter inherited your superpower, it's going to suck some of the joy right out of Christmas.