Another useless skill

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Found out recently through a study I participated in that I have a really high moral reasoning skill. As in the person running it was worried because most of my peer university students have low moral scores, about grade two or something, and mine was graded as 'professor' level. So we had a little laugh about what on earth her stats are going to look like.

It seems I'm always coming across unusual skills I have. In some situations I have a near photographic memory, but only in some situations. If something sticks in my head, usually numbers (mostly with patterns involved), then at the highest end of the scale I can see or hear (as in literally hear repeated word for word what was just said) something for a split second and recall it days, weeks, months later. However since I can't control what sticks and what falls out, it like every other unusual skill I have has no purpose I can use in say a job in the real world.

I'm very big on patterns, but like to apply them to life and plots on the tv. I can be so intuned into the usual plots, red herrings and general charaters that watching, say a horror movie (as they seem the most predictable) I can tell a minute or two into each charater exactly who is going to die at which stage in the movie. My parents used to watch detective programs like midsomer murders, and I would know about half way through or less who had killed who, and usually who was likely to die next.

I'm also quite good at critically analysing arguments and breaking them down to counter argue, but I would really like a skill that allowed me to excell in a job I loved. Apart from perhaps being a author which I'm planning on trying after I finish my degree, these aren't exactly much use in the real world.

Anyone else have any unusual but useless skills?

I remember when I watched Independence Day for the first time with my son at home on a DVD. I would say a line just before a character would or predict the next action, which happened, and my son was sure I had seen the movie before. No. Hollywood is pretty predictable.

That skill is highly useful in law, ethics, counseling, medicine, teaching, etc. Don't sell your self short. I sometimes have a hard time thinking about how my skills, even the weird useless ones are actually applicable in the work world.

You could see if your local police department or county sheriff's department has a reserve as well. I know a couple of people who have done something like that in Tulsa.

Just if you go that route, be careful

Lots of my life involves patterns.
I can also recite large amounts of movie scripts - surprised at how much of Twister I know watching it again in geography recently. I live for movie quotes and know much of the Monty Python scripts off by heart and Russell Crowe's 'My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius...' speech in Gladiator is a favourite, and Mel Gibson's 'They may take our lives but they'll never take our freedom' from Braveheart.