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19 September 2014

Friday Question from the Book of Questions If you could wake up tomorrow having gained one ability or quality, what would it be?

post by: bearwife at: 10:45 | 15 comments

I would want patience. I struggle with trying to be more patient on a daily basis.

posted by bearwife 19 September | 10:47

More than anything else, I would love the ability to fall asleep at will. My deepest envy is reserved for the well-rested.

posted by msali 19 September | 11:13

I still want to fly! Magical and practical all at once.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 19 September | 11:13

Can my ability be to get another ability each day I wake up?

posted by Eideteker 19 September | 13:09

Probably the same as my super-power...to be natively fluent in any language I encounter.
That'll make me really valuable when our alien overlords finally get here.

posted by Thorzdad 19 September | 13:28

Have a brain that can actually remember stuff. I've spent my entire life not being able to remember phone numbers, addresses, names, faces, basically anything. I'm seriously lucky that I can remember my own phone number and can barely remember my wife's. I don't know my son's (even though I pay for it) or the landline number. If I have to read a number and type it in, I have to do it by a max of 2 or 3 digits because I can't retain 7 digits for even 15 seconds.

posted by octothorpe 19 September | 14:03

The ability to self-promote. A little bit. I mean, it's fraught, and I wouldn't want to go all the way to the other side and be a dick about it. But there are things that I am good at, and I just expect people to figure that our and praise or reward me, but that doesn't really just happen, of course.

posted by rainbaby 19 September | 19:30

To only need four hours sleep a night. There just aren't enough hours.

posted by Pips 19 September | 23:06

The flip side of Pips. I'd like to be able to get more than 3 or 4 hours of sleep.

Or maybe a 3rd hand. That way I could scratch both cats and still take a drink or scroll the screen or whatever.

posted by arse_hat 19 September | 23:43

To be able to carry a tune. Not even to be a fantastic singer, just one that won't make cats flee in fear.

posted by gaspode 20 September | 08:37

To make close to 6 figures while working 20 hrs a week

posted by bluesapphires 20 September | 18:57

Less sleep would be nice. I need at least seven a night or I'm pretty much useless the next day.

posted by octothorpe 21 September | 21:05

Better memory for names and faces. It's really a handicap, working in retail, to be so faceblind.

posted by workerant 23 September | 17:10

Memory here, too. I can remember stupid useless arcane facts about irrelevant things, but struggle to remember peoples' names, my kids' birthdays, phone numbers (even my own, sometimes), to get milk on the way home etc.

posted by dg 23 September | 18:52

Teleportation, always. It has the benefits of most other abilities with none of the downsides.

posted by ethylene 26 September | 23:32

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