i can make really good cookies.

:kc:

Shadow @ 21/10/2014 18:52

dr @ 21/10/2014 16:16 In emergency situations, I'm able to stay calm and recognise what needs to be done and what doesn't. I can stay logical and don't panic, and it's saved my life and others' at least once. examples

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I was over my dad's house a few years ago and there was an extremely bad storm that knocked out the power for hours. There were extremely high winds and we needed to take shelter in the basement. My dad's apartment's basement is really prone to flooding, and his side of the basement also controls the power to the rest of the building. My dad is very stubborn and thinks he's good in high pressure situations. He's actually not. So the power was out, and we were down there and the basement started flooding at a somewhat fast rate. Not like "HOLY SHIT WE'RE GOING TO DROWN" rates, but "wow, the bottoms of everything are going to get really wet and if the water gets too high its going to damage the electric thingies down here" My dad got a generator for that kind of situation so that even in an outage he could get the pump working to unflood the basement. In my dad's mind, the priority was that we needed to get the pump working. BUT the generator was in the basement. With us. In closed quarters with no ventilation because we sealed everything tight because of the storm. I realized that we were going to suffocate and turned off the generator, which pissed off my dad. So I had to figure out how to get him to realize that the generator and preventing the flooding from reaching the electrical thingies wasn't a priority over not dying in the basement from CO2 poisoning. Finally we figured out how to section off the flooding and the rising was slow enough that it didn't damage much. But if it were up to my dad, we would have probably suffocated. Generally when someoe in my family gets hospitalized, I'm the one who acts as a go-between between the doctors and nurses and the rest of the family. I'm also the one who calls 911 because everyone else is too stubborn and thinks someone going into death throes is something that will clear up if you leave him alone. I did this a few times for my grandpa who had a lot of problems, and would fall a lot. He had a bad back and heart and couldn't get back up. The times I knew I couldn't get him back up without risking damaging him or myself, I would make the call and then try to talk my grandma down from continuing to try, because she's about half his size and completely stubborn. The earliest time I had to do this I was 10 and he had a bad stomach flu and collapsed puking in the bathroom. My grandma was more worried about cleaning up the mess. When I was 14, a family member was in a bad place and was staying over because of it. Their medication had been switched and their mental status was pretty rapidly declining, from suicidal to worse. Their psychiatrist was out for the weekend and we couldn't get in contact with him at all. I made the call to 911 when it became obvious that this wasn't something that could be waited out and was a full psychotic episode. After I called it was more obvious because they were stripping down naked screaming about the rapture and being reborn. I helped the paramedics restrain them and gave their full history. Then I was the one who had to make medical calls because I was the closest next of kin that was available because all other blood relatives and their power of attorney were unavailable.

I'm excellent at masturbating

It is hard to whittle it down to just one quality...

I'm really good at tricking people into thinking I'm a likable enough person to befriend.

Probably the fact that I very rarely get offended/angry/flustered over anything. I'm pretty even-keeled

And dependability I guess too. When I tell someone I'll do something I rarely don't live up to it

Literally everything

Boc @ 21/10/2014 19:55

Probably the fact that I very rarely get offended/angry/flustered over anything. I'm pretty even-keeled

My ability to never forget a name or face!

Remembering random number sequences!

I remember credit card numbers I looked at once several years ago, what do I do with this.

Fraud. You can do fraud with that

According to my wife my best quality is my credit card.

:)

ahoda @ 24/10/2014 6:11

According to my wife my best quality is my credit card. :)

Just curious...

What is your wife's maiden name?

What was your school mascot?

What was the name of your first pet?

My third best quality is probably my (vivid) imagination and creativity.