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A. I got to drive a train when I was 9 (a family friend charted a Chicago Elevated train for his graduation party and as the youngest person on the train one of the operators said "hey you wanna drive the train" and so I got to drive the train for a bit

B. I went back to college a few years ago and managed to complete a 2 year degree with a 3.71 GPA while attending college full time, working 20+ hours per week at times as the sole breadwinner while my wife was pregnant with our second child and I had to commute about an hour each way to school and work. I literally started my second semester the day after we returned home from the hospital after his birth. Unlike driving a train I don't intend to recreate that experience ever again...

Look at my profile and check my comment count. 😎

Everything about me is a weird flex

• I invented two novel fire eating tricks, one of which involves my split tongue
• I can scratch the back of my skull through my nose with an icepick. I can also put a running power drill in my nose or feed a silicone tube through and out the mouth
• I often shave with a torch or lighter

That I run three home servers with over 25 services for work, home security, and website projects. No one cares about it but I really enjoy doing it :)

As compulsion, I watch YT tutorials at breakneck speed: 2.5x-3x.

YouTube tutorials can be pretty low information density. Sentences have important pointers every 5 seconds or more ("The thing is, like, if you're trying to do this, or this, do X first" -- predictable/less functional words), and the first third of a YouTube video is often useless. Of course, denser videos get slowed to normal and have clips replayed.

Internally, this stems from nervousness of wasting time (oops), and it hurts my head if I do it too long ( but looks cool beforehand B) )

I can drive 18 hours at a time only stopping for fuel and something to eat while driving.

I once made a Naruto remix that got played at anime expo back in 2003/2004.

I can guess the right socket/wrench I need from looking at the bolt 90% of the time

My ability to correctly and perfectly parallel park nearly 95% of the time is one of the skills I'm oddly the most proud of.

I can perform almost any activity in adidas slides, and have for the last 20 years of my life and have yet to twist my ankle. Hiking? No problem. Running? Totally cool!

I'm trying to think of something I can actually do, but all I can think about are weird coincidences beyond my control:

My parents and my husband's parents were married on the same day in different parts of the country. His dad also shares my birthday.

My first child was born on the same day as a moderately famous comedian's first child. Later, when I looked that comedian up, I realised my second child was born on his 50th birthday.

My landlord pays me to live in my apartment rather than the other way around.

Listening to trippy, obscure music. I love this kind of vibe so much