What random, mostly useless, thing are you surprisingly good at? (Jessica's is remembering the names of people's children. Mine is guessing when things were made.)
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I’m freakishly good at catching flies with my bare hands, both off of surfaces and on the wing.
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For those of us with more ordinary hands, I found swirling a small towel as one would wield a nunchaku works quite well.
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I should perhaps have emphasized that the skill I described is always catch-and-release. The original purpose of learning how to catch flies by hand was to be able to move them outside without killing them.
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It’s a combination of factors. Off of surfaces, you can develop an intuition for which way the fly will move. On the wing, it’s mostly hand/eye coordination. And the most important overall factor is raw speed. E.g., I’m also freakishly good at this game:https://youtu.be/-NBq267_yTQ
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To catch a fly that's landed. Swipe your hand over it's back and six inches above. The fly flies up and forward into your cupped hand as you close.
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Just swing your hand cupped little above the fly's current position.
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Go from behind. When flys take off they jump backwards initially. At least that’s what our science teacher told us in like 8th grade. Been Chuck Norris-ing them since then.
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Wet your hand first. If the fly touches any part while you’re closing in, it will stick. ...Now only if we could do it with chopsticks...
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Ditto on skill. Aim for where the fly will go and not where it is
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