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It's like that one meme:
"We need a distraction! Is anyone good at jumping up and down and making noises?"
"My time has come."
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#1
A few:
We got an assignment to design a brace using natural materials. I, a (former) Girl Scout since kindergarten, was the only person who actually got the assignment right the first try.
The teacher asked if anyone knew the words to swear someone in for a mock trial, and since I had memorized them in 7th grade for another mock trial, I swore each witness in on a box of off-brand Sharpies.
Final score:
21points
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#2
I'm still waiting for the day someone shouts "Help! I'm stuck under a giant block of cheddar cheese and need someone to save me!". In high school, it was not uncommon for me to buy a one pound block of cheese and eat it like an apple, while hanging out and skateboarding with friends. That is the moment I've trained for, but my talents have never been needed 😭
Final score:
19points
#3
We had a sports day in our building, and I had done terribly in the cricket match, so when it came to swimming, there was a fight over which team got me. I got my team to win. hehehehehehehe
Not much but it made my day
Also, in edu tour(trips that our school takes us to for a couple day that are totally not educational) we had a one leg hop race and i basically pulled the team. infront of my crush.
Final score:
17points
Bisexual Axolotls 1 year ago
Doing well in front of people you want to like you is the best feeling ever
#4
I majored in acting in college, but improv was my real passion. I was doing an original play written by a student and myself and one other actor played a principal and vice principal who spent most of the play interviewing other characters regarding abuse allegations of a student.
Merely 3 minutes before I was to make my first entrance, I was handed a clipboard with the script on it, told the actor playing the principal had a panic attack back stage and had passed out and that I was going to have to carry the show on my own. My first move onstage was to greet another character and shake hands. When I did I whispered "Adam passed out, it's just me, follow my lead."
I improvised most of the show, trying to make it make sense and proved that not only was improv a valuable skill, but one that could be used for dramatic purposes as well as comedic.
Final score:
17points
#5
Oof uhm
Sophmore year in english class, my teacher let us play a game called 'guess the movie theme song'
My time has come
Well there was one song that had everyone stuck and after a little thinking i wispered/shouted The Lion King
And it was right!!
Idk how he heard me tho lol
🦁🍩
Final score:
16points
#6
In my literature class we had to memorize two lines of the Romeo and Juliet prologue by William Shakespeare. I got my lines down almost immediately along with all the rest of the prologue. The next week we stood up and recited our lines in a row to complete the prologue. There was one student who memorized the wrong set of lines, and without hesitation I just filled in for him. I ended up getting some bonus points from my teacher. This was because the teacher had said if anyone forgot their lines that she would fill in, but I just did it out of instinct.
Final score:
16points
#7
My moment to shine is literally any moment where I can quote a song that perfectly fits the situation
Final score:
15points
#8
Any group project/ group contest.
Everyone wants me on their team, especially those who don’t pay attention. Of course, I say something passive aggressive and go with the people who I like and *also pay attention.
The school spelling bee.
I have always been a good speller. My 5th grade year i almost went to state.
Final score:
12points
Lala 1 year ago
that's cool! i also found that i'm good at spelling than others back in junior high. even better than the english genius that people known as a walking dictionary. until now i can memorize and spell long words like pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis easily. maybe knowing how to spell words correctly is the reason why i highly irritated with typos and can recognize it at first sight :)
#9
My mum was trying to help my grandmother organise her new prescription pills, accidentally knocked all the little white tablets onto the white carpet... suddenly my better than 20/20 vision cqme in handy, found all 50 of them within a few minutes, even the one that had somehow bounced 6ft away.
Final score:
12points
The Best Mushroom Panda️ 1 year ago
Oh wow, that's crazy! I've always considered myself to have good vision, but never like that.
#10
I can draw nearly perfect circles most of the time. In my biology class we were drawing the cell cycle and my group mates kept messing up on the circles and then erasing them trying to make them better. Eventually I just took the marker and drew the circles they needed.
Final score:
11points
#11
any presentation, shows/drama that requires to talking or showing something to audiences.
no matter how anxious i am before, if i know the audience or they are all strangers, if i prepared or not, after the show my friends always asking "why you're so good at it?? please teach us."
i can't teach them bc i trained for this ability since i was little and also experienced bullying so the bullies always forced to play all the difficult and ugly roles so they laugh at me and i forced myself not to cry and doing the best i can as a revenge. embarrased, but thanks to them my talent polished.
Final score:
10points
#12
If anyone ever needs a toy mousie killed, I'm your kitten. Shyla won't help.
Final score:
10points
#13
Workplace cook off: I made first place with 8 hour Beer Gulasch in the non vegetarian category
Final score:
8points
sturmwesen (Submission author) 1 year ago
@7773989 1kg 2-3cm pieces of shoulder meat seared till brown but not done, put it in a slowcooker with 1kg diced onions, 0.5 liter dark beer, a tube tomato mark, salt, pepper, smoked ground bellpepper, caraway seed. top it of till covered with canned tomatoes. Cook it on low for 8 hours. After it is cooked add more tomato mark and spices how you like it, possible spicy/hot chillipepper. Enjoy.
#14
School in general, specially maths. I've been in the worst classes, according to grades, and I still got the highest grades of all the class. Whenever someone has trouble understanding something they know that I know and ask me for help, no matter waht the assigment is, I will always know how to do it, even if I only learnt it today.
Final score:
7points
#15
If anyone ever needs a jigsaw puzzle put together, I'm your person. Bouche will "help."
Final score:
7points
#16
i have many. 1. when i was ten, i got my sister’s jibbitz back on her croc. 2. when i was four, i, a clever child, figured out how to open a juice box without the juice spilling everywhere. i shone among my lesser peers. 3. when i was also ten, i cleverly blew out a mini marshmallow that i had toasted on a scented candle. the marshmallow was on complete fire. technically, i prevented (and could’ve caused) a house fire. i also had a phase when i was really good at tic-tac-toe. don’t be jealous.
Final score:
7points
sproutdidydoodah 1 year ago
i was looking through these things thinking "omg my sister did these /exact/ things" and then it dawned upon me
#17
my drama class needed someone to market the play we're doing and i love photography so im now a part of marketing
Final score:
6points
#18
I have a really good sense of rhythm and musical timing, and I do ballet. I always know everyone's cues, and have occasionally even had to correct the teacher on timing.
Final score:
6points
#19
I was nine, at the zoo, looking at the cassowaries. Complete interest, face-pressed-on-the-glass interested. I love animals, have been studying them my whole life, absolutely obsessed with Aussie life. I get asked by a man what I know about cassowaries. I start listing all sorts of facts, including what they eat, where they are native to, their predators, etc etc. I get told by a zookeeper that I’m pretty smart, and I just reply by saying “ I want to work here when I grow up” it was a funny moment and love to think about it.
Final score:
6points
#20
One time, my family and I were in Dallas for a trip and we went to Dealey Plaza to check out where Kennedy was killed. I don't what came over me, but I just started telling the events of the assassination in full detail. I was even walking around like I was a tour guide or something. My sister said that people really got interested in what I was saying and started listening to me. The only reason that I know anything about the Kennedy assassination is because I am a huge history buff.
Final score:
6points
#21
In fourth grade, my dad took me to Take Your Child to Work Day at NIH and there was an activity where we were extracting DNA from strawberries. Later on in the year, there was a school science fair. I wanted to do more DNA extraction. I made a trifold display of 6 or so different ways to extract dna from strawberries. When the judge came up to me, her expression told me and my parents that she thought it was a parent project. She asked a question about the project to my dad, who said to ask me. I started talking about it, and you could see the moment when she realized I knew what I was talking about.
Final score:
6points
#22
While in Portland for my birthday, my boyfriend and I stopped to go to Powell's. Well we parked his convertible and put some things in the trunk. Including the keys. I didn't have a spare and the hide a key had poofed weeks ago. I remembered that it was possible to open the trunk by shorting out a fuse. A quick search to see exactly what I was supposed to touch, a bent keyring, a carefully covered hand and we had keys again.
Final score:
5points
Bisexual Axolotls 1 year ago
I've heard of the almighty Powell's, but I've sadly never gone. My dad did bring me a sweatshirt with their logo on it once when he was in Portland for a conference. Still have it somewhere a few years later.
#23
I remember one time, my little cousin and I were in my basement with his Nintendo Switch. He was struggling with a boss in a game and wanted me to help him. I, a relatively good gamer, miraculously beat the boss after the first try.
I am actually pretty proud of myself-
Final score:
5points
#24
I was seven, and had accompanied my dad to the pet store to get dog food. I
saw a big cockatoo with his toe caught in a rope toy, hanging upside down and flapping pathetically. I leapt into action and told one of the workers right away. She rescued him, AND brought him out for me to meet. I'll never forget that enormous (to me) bird walking up my arm and nibbling my hair. :)
Final score:
5points
#25
That time a cousin left his keys in the driver's seat after locking himself out of his own car. He didn't have those automated locks, but the kind you have to pull up/push down (so even when locked, it still protrudes up a bit). He did leave his window down just a crack, though. Not enough for either of us to fit our hands through, obviously, but enough for me to put my "clearly watches too many movies" wit to use lol. I went and got a wire hanger from in the house, took a few minutes to unravel it, and kind of fashioned it into this hook. The lock had this sort of gap under the top of it, and I had to get this hooked end latched to that part, and carefully angle it so that it would pull the lock up without slipping, otherwise I'd have to mess with the wire again. After a few minutes of lock fishing, the lock popped up the rest of the way, and my cousin happily let himself back in the car...just to get his keys. Cheaper than getting a locksmith to come down and pry open the door, though, so I'd say it worked out!
Final score:
4points
#26
one of them was when i was working for the district attorney's office. there was a mandate that stated that the division that i worked in, family support, had to have an outreach program. until then, there was little done in this area. within six months i had designed a 'manual' detailing our function and how it worked, set up and attended any public event, made presentations at schools and then broadened that by setting up classes in the various prisons for those members who were going to be released in order to have them know what their responsibilities were if they had kids. i also started approaching communities that i felt were underserved or outright ignored such as the lbgtq+ (mentality was that gay people didn't have kids), eventually, i traveled the state to other prisons and this all led to my office getting a state and national award. however, once it was obvious that i was getting too much attention for my work one of the boss' girlfriend in the office was given the job and it just kind of died. felt bad about that. but, at least i did good while is there and when the environment began to be too toxic with politics as well as corrupt i moved on to another division.
Final score:
4points
#27
whenever my teacher asks us to read something out in class! i do drama and love to read, so im pretty good with expression and reading :)
and when we have to do cold reads (basically only reading through a script once) in acting. i am really good at memorising lines !
Final score:
4points
#28
Was at a meeting with people I didn’t know and the presenter was having a difficult time writing responses on the white board. I stepped in and wrote the responses for him. Everyone was amazed at my ability to write in a straight line and how legible it was. 14 years as a 1st and 2nd grade teacher came in handy that day!
Final score:
4points
#29
I have a few!
1) I was working at Starbucks and someone came in who spoke Thai and some Korean. I wasn't fluent in Thai at the time (I'm technically still not FLUENT fluent, per se, but I could get by pretty well), but I could field an order for "(whatever the drink was) in the size not small and not big and much cream" partially in Korean, partially in Thai.
2) Another language one! Too far away to see subs in a movie theater so I translated the little bits of Mandarin for my friends.
3) The perks of being a procrastinator. In the middle of writing a school play however long ago we realized that the lower school would be watching us too...that got hectic as I rewrote half a play a week before we performed it.
4) A whale watch a while ago. They saw a whale but weren't sure what kind. I saw it though, and knew it was a North Atlantic right whale, which is super endangered (I think there are approximately 350 left TㅅT). It was awesome.
Final score:
4points
#30
I was born at a young age...
I will always shine! ^u^
Final score:
3points
Ur Mother Grookey (Submission author) 1 year ago
OH WAIT! Nvm, I mean when I played Marci AND the waitress (Villian) in my school's version of Almost, Maine and everybody said I was one of the best actors (Even for a freshman ^^)
#31
on a field trip there was a very hard puzzle and I was the only one that knew how to do it. I played a game called "The Devil's Pitchfork" and it was the exact same thing just on a larger scale.
Final score:
3points
#32
Whenever anyone mentions ancient Greece, Latin, or Greek mythology:
Me: opens mouth delightedly.
My family learned very quickly not at ask if they didn't want their ear chewed off
Final score:
3points
#33
Shoutout to my bench mate!
My bench mate was on the first day of her period and wanted to use the washroom really urgently, But of course, our male teacher was like "No breaks while I am teaching!" And he slams the chalk and duster on the table.
This girl shoves her (unused) pad from her pocket on the desk, right in front of his face, and goes: "How about you go teach yourself the 'fifth-grade secret- separate talk' and shove some knowledge into that brain of yours?!"
She stomps out of the class slamming the door behind her while the class is either awestruck or holding their laughter in.
Final score:
3points
#34
when I passed all the courses and became an aircraft mechanic crew chief
Final score:
3points
#35
I am a singer. I have done many gigs from a young age. When I was about 10, I was at my rehearsal and this girl who was a year younger than me and who also was doing something at the company came up to me when I waited for rehearsal to start. She said, "So you have a good voice huh?" I said "I think haha" She told me to warm up with her and so I did and we took turns doing the solfege. She then said "Wow your almost as good as me" I then mentioned how I sang with a celebrity on national television as a backup singer. She was jealous. This was awhile ago.
Final score:
3points
#36
Not had one yet. I don’t have much time left to achieve one either.
Final score:
2points
i_like_boats 1 year ago
Yes you do! Even if it’s a little thing, you have done something that helped someone else, even if you didn’t reallse it <3
#37
We did a finish the Disney lyric kahoot in class. To this day I am still the reigning champion
Final score:
2points
#38
I am not very good at much but I am good at math (or at least the best in my class) and in my last school I was the one you bugged for help if you weren't paying attention I don't like talking to people especially because sometimes they wouldn't even try and just want me to do it for them. Anyways at my knew school I kept to my self until one semester me and my friend had the same class, she was struggling in math and her grades were dropping I tutored her for a while until she began to understand the tutorial now she has a A in math and knows who to come to if she gets stuck.
Final score:
2points
#39
Well, it was probably the moment when somebody I knew was singing a song and they sing one word wrong and then I correct them as fast as possible hehe
Final score:
2points
#40
I was in the audience at a band contest. Between their sets, there was a quiz that everybody could participate in - they ask a question from the stage, and if you think you got the answer, raise your hand, get a mic, give your answer and then, if you win, receive some kind of a price, like a free meal or drink or something similar. Question was the total area of the city of Braunschweig. I studied there, and had just the night before looked up wikipedia's page about Braunschweig and read the area of it and wondered that, although only half the number of people live there, it's almost as large as Hannover. Anyway, one guess was 12 square kilometers, one was 50, and one was 192.13. Currently, it's a bit larger, seems there was a correction recently, but their numbers had said 192.12, which meant I won.
Final score:
2points
#41
I'm very interested in theater tech. Fist time I headed I got the chance to make several props for our show (Musical Comedy Murders of 1940). I make cheeses, a pen holder, a book with a knife stabbed through it, and enough fake books to cover two 8 feet by 4 feet book shelves.
That was the moment I really shined, but just recently I took a show to a small festival. I didn't get any awards or recognition, however I'm very proud of myself because I headed both props and set!!!! Our show did win several things other wise.
Final score:
2points
#42
In sports, everyone wants me on their team, because last year I was titled the best dodgeball player who only got out twice the entire year.
Now that I started Jr High, everything that has throwing, I'm good at. hehe ( even though I have social anxiety so whoever "gets stuck with me", gets lucky and learns their lesson.)
and in my classes no one ever does the work so like in math I'm stuck in a group of 3 with only me doing the work. So if the teacher comes over to ask one of the teams a math question, they ask me for help because I pay attention UvU
Final score:
1point
#43
Tw: homophobia
So I was in band class and we had a substitute that day. (Now bear in mind I'm a very loyal, defensive person who loves their friends unconditionally.) My friend, let's call them Jerry, went by a chosen name. So when attendance was taken, Jerry said "here" and then told the sub that they wanted to be called Jerry. Now the sub was not having this. She went on a tangent about how she was going to say what was on the paper and that our generation was so stupid.
So, I waited. I waited politely until she had waisted her breath completely.
And then I chewed her out. Big time.
I went on and on about how they shouldn't be punished for liking a different name, because that would be the equivalent of her being punished for liking the color purple. I told her that she needed to respect the students just as she wanted us to respect her. (I may have bashed her outfit a bit, but only because her shorts wre so short and we could see eeeeeeeverything.) So I told her that our principal was very supportive of all of her students, and that I had a special relationship with him. I continued to say that I would report her to him and she would get fired real quick.
She shut up after that.
Final score:
1point
(Submission author) 1 year ago
My crush came up to me afterwards and told how they thought that what I did was really cool 😎
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