iBot Poll: What is your most useless talent?

[iBot]

iBot Poll: What is your most useless talent?

 

[JRT]

iBot Poll: What is your most useless talent?

In 1997 I won the "procrastinator of the year award" but I never got around to picking it up. However, it was really heartwarming that they never got around to sending it.

 

[iBot]

In 1997 I won the "procrastinator of the year award" but I never got around to picking it up. However, it was really heartwarming that they never got around to sending it.

iBot is impressed by such talent.

 

[Lamb]

I can write with both hands at the same time as well as draw with both hands if I concentrate carefully. It hurts my brain though

 

[JRT]

I can write with both hands at the same time as well as draw with both hands if I concentrate carefully. It hurts my brain though

I taught for almost 40 years and in all that time I am aware of only one student who was ambidextrous. He was an Egyptian exchange student. I noticed during his final exam. He wrote with both hands simultaneously forming each letter alternately. His handwriting was beautiful and you couldn't detect which hand formed which letter. I was quite astonished.

 

[tango]

I can write with both hands at the same time as well as draw with both hands if I concentrate carefully. It hurts my brain though

A guy I knew at university had a professor who could write across the full length of a wide board - he'd start writing with his left hand and then seamlessly pass the chalk to his right hand and continue writing. My friend said it took him a while to figure out just what the professor was doing and how he managed it.

I can just about write with my left hand but it's really not hard to tell left-handed writing from right-handed writing.

 

[Andrew]

I can stare at a red light and make it turn green, nobody ever seems impressed by it though

 

[JRT]

That is a very useful talent --- I'm envious.

 

[Juneberry]

I'm dreadfully good at procrastinating and getting distraction. To be honest, sometimes I have to use a chore I've been avoiding just to avoid something bigger! But in general, I'm fairly lazy, so procrastinating is my ally and my weakness more than a strength.