Useless Knowledge #OpenBook

October 8, 2018
What's the most useless thing you know how to do?


I had to really think about this and decided it depends upon your definition of useless is. What you find useless may be what someone three states or three countries away finds to be a valuable tool. For example, someone who lives in a New York City apartment may think the fact that I can start a fire out in the woods in the middle of winter with one match is interesting but nothing they'll ever use in their life. Then again, the hunter in the northern part of New York State would think that's a skill everyone should know.

And my ability to convert a standard base 10 number (the numbers you use in every day of your life)  to base 2 or base 16? (Binary and hexadecimal) You're probably shaking your head and saying 'What the heck is she talking about?' It's a useless skill to most  people, but in the computer field it's the basis for inter-computer communication. (You know, the Internet.)

How about my needlepoint and embroidery skills? I've posted a few of my projects here in previous posts, and while they are great decorations, they don't really 'do' anything besides look pretty. On the other hand, I've sold some of my work so that makes it useful.

Wiggling my ears might be a good one but I never figured out how to do that. Same thing for curling my tongue. Or whistling, which I would rank as a useful skill.





I suppose being able to recite the alphabet backward isn't useful as I don't plan to ever be pulled over for drunk driving. Being able to stand on one foot and hold the heel of the other in my outstretched hand doesn't do me any good anymore since I no longer am able to work the balance beam. (And, I admit, I can't do that anymore. Old people problems.)

So what skill do I have that's useless? I use to make bell-bottom jeans and jeans skirts out of two pairs of blue jeans. I don't foresee that fashion trend coming back during my lifetime. (Too bad, I still love bell-bottoms!) So that's my useless skill.

And yes, somewhere pictures exist of me wearing bell-bottoms and sorry, I'm not going to share them here!

What's your useless skill? I'd love to hear about it in the comments. While you do that, I'm off to find out what the other authors are skilled at!


October 8, 2018

What's the most useless thing you know how to do?


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