What's your curse? and your special talent? - Page 2

Sundae · 10-13-2007, 04:55 AM

My curse is causing the companies I work for to be taken over. It makes references tricky sometimes.

My first ever job was working Saturdays and Sundays at a family run restaurant. I lost my job when they closed - the restaurant was bought out by Deep Pan Pizza (where I worked next) but sadly they are still there.

I then worked part time for a frozen food company called Bejam. They were sold out to Iceland with a year of me leaving.

My first full time job was at Equitable Life Assurance Society. They were doing so well they had 2 buildings built especially for them and rented another 3. After I left things went downhill pretty quickly - to the extent that they are being sued by some of their customers (complicated financial stuff). I'm not even sure if they have an office here now.

I also went to work for a newly purchased off-shoot of a marketing company. I was employed in Thame, Oxon and moved to London to work on Sloane Street. I got homesick after a few months and moved back. The off-shoot closed within a year, although it had been running for 10 before it was bought up.

My favourite ever job was at Dr Solomons Software. They were bought out by Network Associates (our biggest rival for the UK market) and effectively eaten.

And finally I worked for Leicester City West PCT. We merged with Eastern Leicester PCT and many of the management team who knew me were shuffled off to other PCTs or simply made redundant.

My talent is finding food. It's partly just having a good memory - someone will mention something they like, haven't had for ages, doubt still exists. Weeks or months later I will see it and buy it for them. I've already surprised HM by having things he craves in the store cupboard. Actually my bro did it to me the other day - I was yapping away on the phone and said how I really fancied a Time Out but they seemed to have stopped selling them. He sent me one in the post - choked me up.

lumberjim · 10-13-2007, 10:47 AM

my curse is smelling BS. It's also my special talent.

lumberjim · 10-13-2007, 10:50 AM

wait....i meant....my talent is believing my own bs.

Cicero · 10-13-2007, 11:36 AM

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Originally Posted by monster

A local radio "personality" was saying that their curse is new TV series. Each season she gets into a few new shows, and every single one she gets into gets cancelled. My curse is gas prices. When I fill up, the gas price immediatley drops 20c. If I need to fill but am late and have no time to stop, the price jumps 20c before I start my journey home.

My special talent, though, is finding needles in haystacks. If you lose something tiny in an impossible place, I will find it, and pretty quickly. Recently, I 've found a tiny (eyeglasses) screw on a huge grey "sculptured" carpet, and a regular-sized bolt on a half mile stretch of road.

I'm like you monster- I can find anything lost on a whim. This is also my curse because it seems too uncanny that I could find a lost item so quickly. This makes it look like I misplaced it or tried to steal it....So I have decided only recently to quit helping.

This happened for the first time in memory when I was about 10, and I recovered my grandmother's wallet. (It was behind her drunk, I mean, wet bar) From that moment on I should have recognized that this kind of uncanny talent is a curse and could get me in trouble.....
:p

DanaC · 10-13-2007, 12:46 PM

Haha. I also have the finding talent. Even now, from time to time my ex will call up in distress having lost something important (a wallet full of cash, a telephone number on a scrap of paper, a pen-drive) and I'll end up down his house helping him look.

I tend to be better at finding other peoples' stuff....and I don't have to have been in the house before, or be at all familiar with my surroundings. I think I just understand what happens to 'stuff' in the course of a day and the kinds of places it settle in :P

My curse is generally being able to see both sides of an argument. Does my mates' heads in from time to time. When one of them is angry at someone and expressing that to me, it isn't always helpful to start putting the other person's point, or explaining the other person's actions to them...

SteveDallas · 10-14-2007, 01:04 PM

My special talent is my biting, acerbic sense of humor.

My curse is that I end up using it around people who end up finding it offensive and/or insulting.

DucksNuts · 10-14-2007, 06:51 PM

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Originally Posted by SteveDallas

My special talent is my biting......

That was all I needed.

elSicomoro · 10-14-2007, 03:21 PM

I can touch my tongue over the tip of my nose. I used to also be able to lick my own boobs, but I can't really do that anymore.

ferret88 · 10-15-2007, 12:44 PM

My curse is that I have an invisible-to-me indicator of some kind that says to people "This is is a good listener and doesn't mind if you spend the next 45 minutes telling him your life story or about how the person you're dating is an idiot but you still love him/her." The worst part is that this indicator must hide my give-a sh!t meter, because they go on and on and my meter is at 0.

My talent is recall of trivia. Many kinds. For little if any good reason.

lumberjim · 10-15-2007, 01:34 PM

ooooh...good one. i think i have that too. mine comes with a crazy guy lure built in too.

10-15-2007, 01:45 PM

Curse, I am a nut-magnet.
So is my wife.
Crazy people are attracted to each of us. When we are together it is awful!
There can be 1000 people on a street, the craziest person will make a bee-line for one of us to exorcise their particular fantasy without provocation or prompting of any kind. We can't figure it out or get it to stop.
Our friends and family think it's a hoot.

HungLikeJesus · 10-15-2007, 01:55 PM

rk, Is that why you're attracted to each other?

10-15-2007, 02:02 PM

Refuge from the nuts? I don't know.

SteveDallas · 10-15-2007, 02:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rkzenrage

Curse, I am a nut-magnet.
So is my wife.

Quote:

Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus

rk, Is that why you're attracted to each other?

Quote:

Originally Posted by rkzenrage

Refuge from the nuts? I don't know.

Umm... that would be one interpretation of HLJ's question.

Sheldonrs · 10-15-2007, 02:18 PM

""With great power comes great responsibility." This is my gift, my curse. Who am I? I'm Spider-man."

10-13-2007, 04:55 AM	#1
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	My curse is causing the companies I work for to be taken over. It makes references tricky sometimes. My first ever job was working Saturdays and Sundays at a family run restaurant. I lost my job when they closed - the restaurant was bought out by Deep Pan Pizza (where I worked next) but sadly they are still there. I then worked part time for a frozen food company called Bejam. They were sold out to Iceland with a year of me leaving. My first full time job was at Equitable Life Assurance Society. They were doing so well they had 2 buildings built especially for them and rented another 3. After I left things went downhill pretty quickly - to the extent that they are being sued by some of their customers (complicated financial stuff). I'm not even sure if they have an office here now. I also went to work for a newly purchased off-shoot of a marketing company. I was employed in Thame, Oxon and moved to London to work on Sloane Street. I got homesick after a few months and moved back. The off-shoot closed within a year, although it had been running for 10 before it was bought up. My favourite ever job was at Dr Solomons Software. They were bought out by Network Associates (our biggest rival for the UK market) and effectively eaten. And finally I worked for Leicester City West PCT. We merged with Eastern Leicester PCT and many of the management team who knew me were shuffled off to other PCTs or simply made redundant. My talent is finding food. It's partly just having a good memory - someone will mention something they like, haven't had for ages, doubt still exists. Weeks or months later I will see it and buy it for them. I've already surprised HM by having things he craves in the store cupboard. Actually my bro did it to me the other day - I was yapping away on the phone and said how I really fancied a Time Out but they seemed to have stopped selling them. He sent me one in the post - choked me up. __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

10-13-2007, 10:47 AM	#2
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	my curse is smelling BS. It's also my special talent. __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

10-13-2007, 10:50 AM	#3
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	wait....i meant....my talent is believing my own bs. __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

10-15-2007, 01:34 PM	#10
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	ooooh...good one. i think i have that too. mine comes with a crazy guy lure built in too. __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

10-15-2007, 01:55 PM	#12
HungLikeJesus Only looks like a disaster tourist Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: above 7,000 feet Posts: 7,208	rk, Is that why you're attracted to each other? __________________ Keep Your Bodies Off My Lawn SteveDallas's Random Thread Picker.

10-13-2007, 12:46 PM	#5
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	Haha. I also have the finding talent. Even now, from time to time my ex will call up in distress having lost something important (a wallet full of cash, a telephone number on a scrap of paper, a pen-drive) and I'll end up down his house helping him look. I tend to be better at finding other peoples' stuff....and I don't have to have been in the house before, or be at all familiar with my surroundings. I think I just understand what happens to 'stuff' in the course of a day and the kinds of places it settle in :P My curse is generally being able to see both sides of an argument. Does my mates' heads in from time to time. When one of them is angry at someone and expressing that to me, it isn't always helpful to start putting the other person's point, or explaining the other person's actions to them...

10-14-2007, 01:04 PM	#6
SteveDallas Your Bartender Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Philly Burbs, PA Posts: 7,651	My special talent is my biting, acerbic sense of humor. My curse is that I end up using it around people who end up finding it offensive and/or insulting.

10-14-2007, 03:21 PM	#8
elSicomoro Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 12,486	I can touch my tongue over the tip of my nose. I used to also be able to lick my own boobs, but I can't really do that anymore.

10-15-2007, 12:44 PM	#9
ferret88 (This space left intentionally UN-blank.) Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Albuquerque Posts: 604	My curse is that I have an invisible-to-me indicator of some kind that says to people "This is is a good listener and doesn't mind if you spend the next 45 minutes telling him your life story or about how the person you're dating is an idiot but you still love him/her." The worst part is that this indicator must hide my give-a sh!t meter, because they go on and on and my meter is at 0. My talent is recall of trivia. Many kinds. For little if any good reason.

10-15-2007, 01:45 PM	#11
rkzenrage Guest Posts: n/a	Curse, I am a nut-magnet. So is my wife. Crazy people are attracted to each of us. When we are together it is awful! There can be 1000 people on a street, the craziest person will make a bee-line for one of us to exorcise their particular fantasy without provocation or prompting of any kind. We can't figure it out or get it to stop. Our friends and family think it's a hoot.

10-15-2007, 02:02 PM	#13
rkzenrage Guest Posts: n/a	Refuge from the nuts? I don't know.

10-15-2007, 02:18 PM	#15
Sheldonrs Master Dwellar Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Los Angeles, CA Posts: 4,412	""With great power comes great responsibility." This is my gift, my curse. Who am I? I'm Spider-man." __________________ Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry and the world laughs AT you.

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