This week we’ve been discussing hidden talents and skills. I don’t know about you, but I’ve gotten kick out of reading the other Babes confessions. It will be hard for me to look at Traci now without envisioning her spitting watermelon seeds.

I have to say, where artistic talent is concerned, I’ve been blessed. I’ve made my living for more than thirty years as a professional entertainer. I can sing, dance, act, choreograph, write and direct. I didn’t go to school for any of it. Mostly it comes naturally and is honed by watching and learning from peers. It’s the other side of my brain that was gypped. I am the living opposite of Rhonda. No memory. No skill with gadgets and gizmos. Why can’t I have it all?   No, wait. I could do without Mary’s talent for killing flies with a ballpoint pen. Ick.

Anyway, as far as hidden talents go, I can’t think of any.  I do however have a bizarre talent for NOT being able to screw on a cap or lid properly. That extends to NOT being able to open a package (like a potato chip bag or cereal box) without mangling it.

Check any bottle in my house. The laundry detergent, the seltzer water bottle, the peanut butter jar. If the lid is screwed on crooked, I was the last one to use it. Ditto on the various mangled box-tops and the broken zip-locks on the deli bags. My husband continually comments on this bizarre quirk. How do you do that? How can you NOT screw the lid on straight? How can you destroy every package?

I honestly don’t know. It’s a gift.