I am always amazed by my inability to fall on ice. I can lose my balance, but always catch myself at the last second.
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 have an uncanny ability to read super faded receipts, and old people's hand writing.
I know how to can food and make preserves. I'm 46 M.
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.
Depends on unexpected for who. Most native english speakers seem surprised when they realise I understand "big words" (read: any word with a Latin root) without needing to look up a definition. To me it's pretty obvious. My native tongue is Spanish. Having an accent doesn't mean I don't know anything.
English speaker here, it's especially true of technical words because science draws on Latin so much for terminology. Also, after 2 years of Latin in high school and then studying Spanish in college, I found a lot of Spanish words easy to guess.
I know how to spin a laptop on my finger
That's aggressively anxiety inducing more than surprising
I could do that, but probably only once.
I can't throw any sort of ball to save my life, but in school I could sink a crumpled up piece of paper into the trash bin across the classroom with consistency that even shocked myself. I'm also deadly with rubber bands and have a knack for paper planes and projectiles made from broken pens.
This reminds me of a job where my office buddy and I used to shoot rubber bands, paperclips, little wads of paper etc. at each other over the partition between our desks, or bank them off the wall. There was this guy Dave from another floor, who occasionally stopped in with a question for one of us, and I swear to god every time he came in was right when we were screwing around like that or laughing immediately afterwards. Every. Single. Time. Once while we were exchanging fire I even said something like, "Time for Dave to show up," and like 2 seconds later he walked in. We both busted up laughing. Dave developed a srsly bad attitude about us because he didn't think we ever did any work, but actually we were hella busy most of the time.
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