Tremble before me, mere mortals, for I am Volume Man!
I can tell, from one look at the remaining contents of a pan/casserole dish/slow cooker pot, the correct plastic container(s) that should be used for storing it in the freezer so that they are exactly filled to capacity. Every time.
I'm also, without particularly trying to be, ridiculously, like to the second, punctual
MTB related, i can happily strip and service a suspension fork, but cannot put a saddle on a seatpost without dropping and losing at least one of the bolts.
Or i can happily navigate open moorland or mountains and have a really good sense of direction, yet commonly cannot remember where i have parked car when i've only been in supermarket 20 minutes.
I can spend a week researching which widget to buy, have four separate options lined up across multiple carts to work out which is the cheapest and then can’t quite summon up the courage to click buy.
I should add that when it comes to buying gifts for other people rather than myself, I always seem to happen on exactly the thing that person really really wanted or needed, and I've chosen it within 5 minutes of entering the shop.
Months later they are wearing or using the thing I bought as opposed to anything else they got. Like the nephews, even up until the late teenage years their xmas usually very extensive and expensive prezzies from my sis and bil are cast by the wayside and they play with the thing I got them 😀
Or i can happily navigate open moorland or mountains and have a really good sense of direction, yet commonly cannot remember where i have parked car when i’ve only been in supermarket 20 minutes.
This is me also, I can easily follow a feint track, or navigate across featureless moors, but drop me in the Traffy and there's a good chance I'll die of starvation before I find the Food Hall.
Superskillz? I can sleep sitting upright in a S2/3 landrover front (passengers*) seat, my ability to sleep regardless has infuriated my insomniac partner for years, though my snoring doesn't help her much. She used to get up, make herself a drink, I'd wake ask where mine was? So she took to making me a drink (tea) too, I'd wake up drink it, and go straight back to sleep...I really don't help, when she's suffering.
Antiskillz? I can faff for England.. you wouldn't believe how much I can faff. Need to be ready to leave a 9, yeah no chance,10 maybe...
* I know how pedantic you ppl are.. one of my bosses used to have an american truck, we spent 18month going to London on the M40, with me asleep in the normal UK drivers position
I can tell the difference between Revels. The flat chocolate ones are obviously easy but I can also tell if you're holding a chocolate or orange fondant.
15 years ago I recall some uni mates declining a lift in the shitbox escort and borrowing their oldmans Audi for the drive to Shrewsbury.
Same people also saved a fortune on fuel by having a total break failure between Shrewsbury and the motorway.
We got home mid afternoon. They got home the next day after doing the relay fun and games all the way up the road 2-3 hours per truck plus waiting.
Apparently I have the antiskillz of being in and replying to one thread and it appearing in another.. ..... 3-2-1
I am remarkably adept at going to the shops 'for just one thing' and coming home with several different things and not the one thing I went for in the first place. Almost guaranteed to happen these days. Bike related I can never index gears first time out. It just never works for me. Then I go away, leave it for a bit, come back and can dial them in in seconds.
Superskill - [s]I can stay logged into the STW forum for more than five minu-[/s] nah, no-one will believe that 😉
I can accurately predict the number of added minutes at the end of a football match.
but drop me in the Traffy and there’s a good chance I’ll die of starvation before I find the Food Hall.
To be honest, if I had to choose between dying of starvation or a visit to the Trafford Centre, I'd have to have a bit of a think.
