I’ve mastered the ability to take any idea or thought and transform it into anxiety. Jitters McGee
I can stand on one foot and tie my shoe in the air
I taught myself to balance on one foot by brushing by teeth on one foot for a few months lol
I learned to open bottles using a lighter, and then taught my friends. After a while, we just started referring to lighters as “bottle openers”.
I remember reading about a Pa Kua Chang master who could walk through a crowd with a full teacup and not spill any. For whatever reason I started to practice walking with a full to the brim teacup (with or without a handle) and now I can go up and down stairs with one or two and not spill anything. Usually
I can palm a tennis ball, roll it down my arm, bump launch it with my bicep, and catch it. Freaks people out who are standing close as the ball launches right at them, but I’ve always caught it. Discovered later I could do it with anything that rolls like a microphone.
I have an uncanny ability to do things that are unpopular, that later become popular, but I can never imagine them becoming popular when I do them.
Saw Nirvana in a crowd of 30 people before they got famous, certainly never thought they would, it was so different from what was on the radio then. Bought a shirt from them, out of their little van parked in the alley behind the bar!
Used to wear vintage dresses from the thrift store in the 1980s, nobody around me was dressed anything like that, but later all of them got bought up by flippers.
Had tattoos when it was remarkably unusual for a woman, like if another woman with tattoos saw me they would stop and talk to me, I never ever ever would have thought they’d be mainstream.
Lots of stuff like that, like I’m out of synch with time but I can never capitalize on it because I don’t have the vision to understand that it will catch on!
What are some things youve done that have not caught on? What are you into currently?
Gardening in the last few years, sourdough and home fermentation I’ve done for 15 years or so. I don’t really think those will catch on generally because most people don’t cook but I will say a few people have asked for some of my starter lately so who knows? Tepache I’ve been making for years and I just saw some being sold in whole foods, so maybe. But more likely that happened as an offshoot of the Kombucha craze, which I was not a part of. Have been using henna to color my hair for years too, that hasn’t exploded in popularity.
I have been late to the party on things too - mobile phones I held out as long as I could, Pokemon Go, late adopter. Electric bike. Fontaines DC.
On the really spooky side though - I had this dining room set from the 1940s, the upholstery tore so I went to the local commercial upholstery shop and found sparkly red vinyl from the state fair rides, reupholstered them (badly) with silver trim.
Couple years later was at Target and they had a reproduction set exactly like my old one - exactly the same chairs, covered in the exact same sparkly red vinyl I’d used. It was precisely like my kitchen table set just better execution. What the actual fuck?
Target legit steals designs from lesser known artists, even here in Australia they’ve been caught doing it
