Ask Lemmy

Landscaping

My very first job at the age of 15 was working at a Nursery/ Garden Center. I also would work on the landscaping crews and even did some design work.

When my wife and I bought our house she said she always dreamed of having a big flower garden, but said she didn't know how to do it properly.

Well... I do. Even my Mother-In-Law, who is an experienced gardener, learned a few things from me. Although, I have to admit, she really does know a lot and I learned a lot from her as well.

Our flower beds are beautiful throughout the growing season with a huge variety of plants.

People are surprised that I can jodel a bit. My geeky high-schools self worked hard to build this skill.

Cooking. IDK why but everyone assumes I don't know how to cook. I must fit a stereotype or something. The last time I lived alone I cooked (or had leftovers of something I cooked) every night for like 8 months. I tell people that and they are always surprised. It's a big reason I hate living with roommates because the kitchen situation is so chaotic I can't really do that anymore.

I never forget a face

I'm a huge guy, 6'8" and immensely heavy, people do a double take when I tell them I can and do windsurf.

Nobody expects me to be a baker. I damn near killed a stand mixer making bagel dough once xD

Juggle. I'm by no means a master, but I know my way around quite a few different juggling things. Balls, sticks, hoops, the two sticks you hold with the longer one you juggle in the middle, diabolos/Chinese yo-yos.

People are surprised that I'm really good with horses. I'm a very short, timid person, but I can handle the huge animals with ease.

I can put a needle in any body cavity (of someone else). Or a wire or a catheter. Besides the skull and a few more delicate ones I also know how to do that without actually killing the person. Well,at least not "certainly" killing... accidents happen.

Somehow, it's a surprise to people that I'm a competent trumpet player. As if every high school in the state doesn't have a band class. Fully half of my graduating class in high school were musicians of some kind between chorus, orchestra and band classes. But somehow nobody expects a random dude in his mid-30's to pick up a trumpet and play a few bars of Ravel's Bolero.

Compared to most people, I know a fuck ton of keyboard shortcuts making me look like a computer wizard.

I'm able to forget most things my dad says ... he has an opinion of everything and will babble for 20 minutes about stuff no one else in the house cares about.

Also, I can picture a blueprint in 3d.

I'm really good at hating myself.