I think everyone has super powers. They just aren't as extreme as the ones that make the movies. Call them "mild".
I have two.
When using bulk materials, say connectors, and I pour a bunch out of a bag to make up, say, 50 cables, I very often pour out the exact amount without trying.
I also know what time it is. All the time. To within under 5 minutes, every time. Weird.
What's your mild super power?
I tend to know what direction I'm going -- North, South, East, West. . . without a compass, map, etc.
Quoted from Gryszzz:I can make gallons of lager disappear.
But your kryptonite is hotel security. 
Quoted from tamoore:But your kryptonite is hotel security.
Grysz location was his power.
He caught me drinkin and smokin. I'm absolutely sure that sometime soon he's gonna kick the bathroom door open and catch me jerkin off.
I will have a song stuck in my head all day only to hear it on the drive home from work, like a lot. Exact Song Predictions or ESP as I call it.
I’ve got the time thing going on, too. Kind of funny-it disappeared for about a year after I had major surgery-I’m sure it was a neurological side-effect from the anasthesia
Of more concern to me are wife’s abilities. I can be three thousand miles away set up at a comic con, and she can pick the busiest time of the day to bug me about useless shit I can’t do anything about (sons hockey schedule, loose hubcap, broken storm door, etc), when in fact she will ignore or argue with anything I say anyway. There are comic dealers lol over the country that are amazed by this.
Fortunately she has no clue about when I buy new machines until it’s too late. I’ve made 500 mile round trips without her cluing in.
Quoted from ArcadiusMaximus:I will have a song stuck in my head all day only to hear it on the drive home from work, like a lot. Exact Song Predictions or ESP as I call it.
I get this. When I was going to high school and I took the bus I'd know songs that would play soon even if they weren't in the regular rotation
I have a couple....maybe they are skills....
I have a light photographic memory.
For some people, I can read minds, only numbers.
I can see trends in merchandising, and tastes.
My biggest super power is keeping my wife happy for 43 years! 
My super power is getting really excited about a project, figuring out every detail and then... not following through
i can pour two or more glasses perfect without looking from the side.
That is a superpower! The Pouring Equal Man to the rescue.
My not-so-super power is mild clairvoyance.
Maybe I can just read a situation and determine people’s actions easily. For example. My parents invited me and my sister over cuz they had something they wanted to tell us. Immediately I told my wife that I thought they were going to move across the country. I just had a feeling. We don’t have any family there. My mom has 1 friend out there that they had visited a year ago. They never mentioned that they were thinking about it, but it does make a lost of sense for them.
Sure enough, just found out on Saturday they have a place picked out and plan to sell their farm in the spring.
Quoted from Luckydogg420:clairvoyance
Claire Voyance!? I dated her in high school....
Quoted from pinball_faz:Claire Voyance!? I dated her in high school....
I saw that coming.
Quoted from drummermike:I saw that coming.
You MUST by psychic
Quoted from Tomass:Mine is detecting BS.
Yep, got my chest waders on for this one.
When inquiring about a pinball machine listed for sale at a good price I usually manage to be the second caller.
Can guess the correct time within a few minutes after hours of not looking at any clocks. Its a game I have played since I was a little kid, and now with the perspective of being old and understanding <some> things about life, I realize this is a component of excessive OCD behavior.
For those of you that always instinctively know which way is North, West, etc, I envy you, that's definitely a thing, but I am the exact opposite. I never have a clue and need some sort of identification to know. I also will turn the WRONG way if I am not sure about 80% of the time. So now I think about which way I think I want to turn, and then just go the opposite way, but then that doesn't work either. Luckily I live in a place that is almost totally laid on on a grid with all the streets pointing in the major directions, so this makes it much easier to construct the map in my head and know which way is which.
Here is my story of having super powers, for a brief time (about 2 weeks) after I had brain surgery i craved frozen stuff and I didn’t get brain freeze/slurpee headaches no mater how much frozen stuff I drank. I actually joked with my wife at the time that I had a super power, unfortunately the brain freeze is back now and I have to be careful when drinking frozen drinks again
True story!
In high school a couple of friends and I joked about having worthless/lame super powers. Mine was the ability to dry quickly, which was somewhat based on reality as they'd marvel how quickly my hair would dry after getting out of the pool. One friend's power was the ability to calm jittery squirrels. And the other friend's was the ability to communicate with corn.
I can turn off street lights just by looking at them. I also know that my phone will ring 5 seconds before it happens.
Quoted from Atari_Daze:I can make a room full of people disappear w/o muttering a single magic word.
FARTMASTER STRIKES AGAIN!!
Quoted from Captive_Ball:My super power is to put the USB connection in a computer, connector, or wall outlet wrong everytime....sometimes I even look at the plug before inserting and still get it wrong
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Everybody knows it takes 3 tries to properly insert a USB cable.
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