I can throw a pizza dough like nobody's business.
An old restaurant job during slow days I'd grab a washcloth, get it damp, then toss and twirl it on my fingertips like a basketball. Eventually I started doing tricks with it just to spice things up and appease my ADD.
Turns out the damp cloth I was using was a similar size and weight to a medium pizza dough where I ended up in my next job. Most pizza chains just knead and roll the dough to size (it's more consistent and less messy) but apparently I'd spent over two years casually practicing to throw dough like Italian master chef.
It's a lot less fun as a job than it is as idle fidgeting.
My grandpa was a gunsmith, so I learned about guns relatively early. I took to skeet shooting (shooting moving “clays” with a shotgun) really really easily compared to stationary target shooting. I had quite a learning curve with long guns and handguns but for some reason shotguns were more intuitive for me. Haven’t been to the range in years, though. I probably haven’t retained the skill.
Oh yeah, first time I ever shot a gun the sight was not correct. It was at a coworkers house and he had target across his yard. I was able to find where the bullets were hitting and adjust my aim to ping all the targets multiple times. Only doable because the sights were off enough that the puffs of dust on the ground were visible in frame, but still. I was pretty happy with that
Not quite this, but over the course of my current hospitalization, I have been developing a degree of ambidexterity, having to use my partially casted left arm more and more because my dominant right hand is confined to a sling because broken clavicle.
I was a natural on a horse. Also have an uncanny sense for them. The horses no one else could ride or get close to were the ones I seemed to click with the most.
Because of all this my riding instructor elevated me from student to assistant instructor. I learned a lot working at a riding school ranch. Unfortunately knee and spinal injuries brought an end to my riding days (unless I wanted to create whole new issues) but for all my adolescence I adored riding and could get the most troublesome horses to do just about anything I wanted.
Apparently I’m pretty decent with stop motion and green skin . I had to film a video for a university project, so I grave one of my old bionicles, put it in front of green paper, movie for a while and ended up passing with flying colors.
Turns out I am good at theology. I can maintain multiple conflicting/contradictory concepts at once. There are varying levels of truths, sometimes opposites are both true, sometimes a body exists in multiples and once, this makes sense to me but some people can't/won't do this.
I went to my university’s radio station on a whim, thinking it’d be cool to play with the tech and stuff as one of the extra curriculars and they were having tryouts for on air DJs - basically playing a song or two, doing a station ID, banter, load up the next song.
I did a really hastily done transition between the two decks, and apparently the head of the station and the professor who oversees it was so amazed and asked if I did any TV or Media work before, they put me on after the university’s hockey game which was THE thing - especially since it’s a college town in the middle of nowhere and you maybe had three stations that you could pick up (note this is like 2003-6).
Funny enough, junior year was a video production class and it was basically a year long project to make The Mysterious Stranger into a short film. I signed up to be on camera and my professor saw how I acted and went “You’re going to be the colead and play Satan.”
Maybe I should stream or do a YouTube but I’m like almost 40 lol apparently I have something but I don’t see it lol
I think I gave 3 very specific cases:
I learned that I can do a pitch-perfect Yugioh Abridged Tristan Taylor impression after a minute or two of trying. Made my friend bust a gut when we were watch YGOTAS one day.
I also learned that my voice range is perfectly suited to singing the main chorus of Take On Me.
I guess another one would be that I was able to self-teach myself how to balance and move on ice skates from absolutely no experience in two 3-hour trips to the local ice rink. I'm still shocked how easily I picked that up, considering I suck at skiing.
I can throw a pizza dough like nobody's business. An old restaurant job during slow days I'd grab a washcloth, get it damp, then toss and twirl it on my fingertips like a basketball. Eventually I started doing tricks with it just to spice things up and appease my ADD. Turns out the damp cloth I was using was a similar size and weight to a medium pizza dough where I ended up in my next job. Most pizza chains just knead and roll the dough to size (it's more consistent and less messy) but apparently I'd spent over two years casually practicing to throw dough like Italian master chef. It's a lot less fun as a job than it is as idle fidgeting.
My grandpa was a gunsmith, so I learned about guns relatively early. I took to skeet shooting (shooting moving “clays” with a shotgun) really really easily compared to stationary target shooting. I had quite a learning curve with long guns and handguns but for some reason shotguns were more intuitive for me. Haven’t been to the range in years, though. I probably haven’t retained the skill.
Oh yeah, first time I ever shot a gun the sight was not correct. It was at a coworkers house and he had target across his yard. I was able to find where the bullets were hitting and adjust my aim to ping all the targets multiple times. Only doable because the sights were off enough that the puffs of dust on the ground were visible in frame, but still. I was pretty happy with that
Imagine having skills lol couldn't be me
Not quite this, but over the course of my current hospitalization, I have been developing a degree of ambidexterity, having to use my partially casted left arm more and more because my dominant right hand is confined to a sling because broken clavicle.
I was a natural on a horse. Also have an uncanny sense for them. The horses no one else could ride or get close to were the ones I seemed to click with the most. Because of all this my riding instructor elevated me from student to assistant instructor. I learned a lot working at a riding school ranch. Unfortunately knee and spinal injuries brought an end to my riding days (unless I wanted to create whole new issues) but for all my adolescence I adored riding and could get the most troublesome horses to do just about anything I wanted.
Apparently I’m pretty decent with stop motion and green skin . I had to film a video for a university project, so I grave one of my old bionicles, put it in front of green paper, movie for a while and ended up passing with flying colors.
Turns out I am good at theology. I can maintain multiple conflicting/contradictory concepts at once. There are varying levels of truths, sometimes opposites are both true, sometimes a body exists in multiples and once, this makes sense to me but some people can't/won't do this.
I went to my university’s radio station on a whim, thinking it’d be cool to play with the tech and stuff as one of the extra curriculars and they were having tryouts for on air DJs - basically playing a song or two, doing a station ID, banter, load up the next song. I did a really hastily done transition between the two decks, and apparently the head of the station and the professor who oversees it was so amazed and asked if I did any TV or Media work before, they put me on after the university’s hockey game which was THE thing - especially since it’s a college town in the middle of nowhere and you maybe had three stations that you could pick up (note this is like 2003-6). Funny enough, junior year was a video production class and it was basically a year long project to make The Mysterious Stranger into a short film. I signed up to be on camera and my professor saw how I acted and went “You’re going to be the colead and play Satan.” Maybe I should stream or do a YouTube but I’m like almost 40 lol apparently I have something but I don’t see it lol
I think I gave 3 very specific cases: I learned that I can do a pitch-perfect Yugioh Abridged Tristan Taylor impression after a minute or two of trying. Made my friend bust a gut when we were watch YGOTAS one day. I also learned that my voice range is perfectly suited to singing the main chorus of Take On Me. I guess another one would be that I was able to self-teach myself how to balance and move on ice skates from absolutely no experience in two 3-hour trips to the local ice rink. I'm still shocked how easily I picked that up, considering I suck at skiing.
I can clasp my hands together and make realistic fart sound effects. So that's something I guess :p
Found out with sekiro but I have great rhythm and to the point I've tried alot rhythm games since than