Thursday, February 25, 2016

Special Super Power

Can you think of a moment in your life when you felt thoroughly validated?

Here's mine:  I was getting ready to park in front of our house (we don't have off-street parking) when I noticed a car behind me.  I'd have to park quickly, I knew, so I did the parallel parking thing and NAILED IT.

As the car passed me, the driver--a teenage boy--gave me two thumbs up because yeah.  I won't lie.  I was impressive and we both knew it.

That's my special super power--parallel parking.  As one of my boys said, "Mom is oddly good at that."

What's YOUR special super power?

5 comments:

sadie said...

Emily's is bagging groceries. She gets compliments all the time from teenage, peach fuzzed grocery store attendants.

Sarah said...

I am awesome at knowing what size of container will fit the leftovers perfectly.

Emily said...

Sadie already said mine. It's true. I'm super at bagging groceries. Also, pancakes. I can make amazing pancakes.

Sadie is super good at ironing. Once, and this is truth, she got blisters from ironing her husband's shirts. I think they go to the dry cleaner now.

Lisa B. said...

I have two super powers: one is identifying the celebrity voices in TV ad voiceovers. The other is picking out a perfectly ripe watermelon.

Jim said...

Not really sure if i have a super power, but I wouldn't mind having any of those listed above, including parallel parking. If I had to choose, I guess I am decent at throwing odd bits and chunks of food inside a flour tortilla and making a burrito out of it.