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Mama Kat, a blogger who keeps me in stitches, posts writing prompts each week for anyone willing to write. This week, I decided to participate.

My prompt?

List 10 random things you know how to do. 

I can:

1. write backwards in both print and cursive.  Fast.  This would come in handy should I find myself trapped in a hall of mirrors with no other way to entertain myself, but to amaze my fellow trap-ees by writing in seeming gibberish only to have it magically transform into words by merely holding the words up to a mirror.
2. pick up most anything small with my toes and swiftly hand the item to myself.  Uh, foot the item to myself?  A useful skill when you have three children and only two arms.
3. whistle Dixie.  No, really ~ listen to me, whistling dixie.
4. drive a stick shift.  My first car was an automatic canary yellow Pontiac Sunbird, which I took no time wrecking in two weeks flat.  My next car was a manual Honda CRX in which I learned to drive a stick shift.  This skill was essential and the learning curve was short, since I had to drive up 2 steep hills to get home.  If I ever have to make a quick getaway or steal a car parked on the side of the road to escape zombies, knowing how to drive a stick could mean life or death.  I choose life.
5. tie a maraschino cherry stem with my tongue.  A simple bar trick I learned in my previous drinking happy hour’ed youth.
6. speak in several different accents and do so with freakish random frequency.  These include, but are not limited to: British, Scottish, Australian, Russian, French and Italian.  They sound spot on to my own ear, but I haven’t been judged by the natives who may feel differently.  This comes in handy fielding unwanted phone calls or tricking people in public.  Not that I have done either.
7. line dance.  Give me a good country song and a line of people and I’m redneckin’ out with Cotton Eye Joe.
   
8. stand in Tree Pose for extended periods of time, which will come in handy when I’m hiding from the zombies in the forest nearby.
9. pull the center stem from a honeysuckle flower to reveal and eat the honey drip as it hangs over the edge.  Too fast or too slow and you lose that drop.  This skill I learned sitting on the side hill of my childhood home, daydreaming and drinking honeysuckle flowers.
10. understand dog language.  Step aside, dog whisperer, step aside.

What random things can you do?  Is there anything on my list that you can do too? Please share ~ I would love to hear about it.