Knowing various ways to get a car to crank when it won't turn over - push starting a manual, crawling under with a wrench to whack the starter for one last crank, using jumper cables....
The old saw goes that in the land of the blind, the one-eyed person is king. I'm afraid that in the land of the willfully misinformed, the one trying to keep their eyes open is a heretic. So my power is heresy.
I have a sixth sense of knowing christian rock or country music after about 2-1/2 seconds. It enables me to quickly turn the radio station quickly and not purposely drive off a bridge.
I know tatu. Even if the brunette said she would disown her child if they were gay. Meanwhile made what little celeb status she had pretending to be a lesbian. But I did enjoy their music.
No clue who icona pop is.
Being the last generation of recording engineers who learned on analog tape. I bet I could still do a recording alignment on a 24 track machine by memory.
I just Googled them, just never heard of them before. Early 2000s I was well into my career, having graduated college a decade earlier, so I wasn't really paying attention to pop duos!
"I don't care" got played alot at parties, clubs, and on the radio station I listen to, it was definitely a big hit song and I think is about a younger woman dating a Gen X guy.
When in doubt? NO. If there's any doubt the answer is no. Shut it down, pack it up, its over.
Defying this rule has consistently resulted in fuckery and shenanigans, or even worse, drama.
Doubt signing that financing contract? No. Doubt going home with that dude? No. Doubt what that dude is doing over there with that backpack? NO!
Papa Darwin wrings his filthy rotted hands in anticipation every time you disobey your first instinct in making a decision.
So yeah no sketchy decisions.
Knowing how to research without asking others. We didn’t have the internet, just the library’s card catalog and encyclopedias. Yet with Google at their fingertips, my (mostly) Gen Z coworkers post questions in Teams rather than research it themselves. A Google search would be quicker than making a post.
When someone buys something, I can count their change back without a calculator or cash register telling me how much. Assuming, of course, the transaction actually involves that stuff called cash.
I am a surviver
Not to brag or look for sympathy, but a list of sorts of what hasn't ended me.
Latch key kid at 9, single father, spent lots of time on my own, I can go days without needing contact with another person. Dad made sure I never lacked things to do or art supplies. I just never got the emotional support, and I repressed that 5 year old bit until later.
Molested at 5.
Mentally abused until my father divorced her.
Moved around lots
16 fell off the back of a Honda 80 dirt bike, 6-8 somersaults into the ditch, doing around 25 and no helmet. I was a slave to hormones, no 16 year old should have a rack that big. Anyways I was last of three on this bike...
20 tried putting myself in a wheelchair skiing.
Late 40's guess the warranty ran out, ruptured appendicitis, gallbladder the following year.
Been homeless for a year at 54
Suicidal at 55 and admitted myself for help
56 On disability and waiting for a place of my own, while working on how to manage chronic pain. (Prefer Indica)
Pain isn't in my neck or shoulder that bothers me, it's my feet.
I don't know who you talk about, though tatu rings maybe a bell as a Russian lesbian pop act.
Anyhoo, my GenX superpower is wearing short trousers when it's cold.
If the trivia question is asking for the name of a one hit wonder from the 80s or 90s you want me on your team. My brain just locks those bands and singers in for good but I still need Google to look up the random odd formula I might need once a month
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