Useless Fact #1
I cannot wink my left eye.

Useless Fact #2
I can raise the left corner of my upper lip in manner of vamps from Hindi movies of yesteryears or heroines of today. Same thing, no?

Useless Fact #3
I can cook almost anything under the sun but still cannot make perfectly round and soft rotis.

Useless Fact #4
I love spicy food but my body immediately reacts with hiccups. I take a break and drink lots of water and get right back to it. It happens with pani puri too. I LOVE pani puri but get hiccups EVERY TIME I eat them!

Useless Fact #5
I cannot mentally compute complicated digits like 127 + 69 and still use the “donkey method” to multiply. These days my cell phone’s calculator feature has made life easier for me.

Useless Fact #6
I can remember names better than faces.

Useless Fact #7
I’m partly dyslexic and often say (and sometimes write) wrong for right, up for down, in for out, left for right. Many an auto-rickshaw driver has attempted to throw me out of a moving vehicle during rush hour traffic.

Useless Fact #8
I find it difficult to look at parts of a composite image to make out the whole. I need to look at the whole thing to understand what it is.

Useless Fact #9
While writing exams as a student I would close my eyes and try to picture the exact spot on the page that had the answer, to recollect it.

Useless Fact #10
As a student I also had the uncanny ability to predict questions that would be asked during exams. I was always hounded by fellow students a couple of hours before the exams. I could even predict questions for those who were in higher classes.
Thanks to this ability, I never needed to complete the entire portion and would only study enough to get me by.

Useless Fact #11
I find it easier to hug men than women. I think it’s because I find it easier to hug my dad. I am never comfortable hugging my mom when it’s time to leave.

Useless Fact #12
I can never a watch a movie mid-way, or 20 minutes or even 5 minutes after it’s begun. I always feel like I don’t know something, like something’s missing and cannot concentrate on the rest.

Useless Fact #13
I can never fall asleep on my back. I have to turn on my stomach and sleep with one arm under my head.

Useless Fact #14
I talk a LOT in my sleep but it’s all gibberish and no one understands what I say. My husband now claims to understand a few words and has discovered the delights of blackmail.

Useless Fact #15
I dream a LOT; always and every time I sleep, even if it is just a 15 minute nap. My dreams never make sense and most of the time I cannot remember them. When I do recollect anything it freaks me out and scares me shitless.

Useless Fact #16
No matter how much time I have to submit some work; I can only start working at the end. I work better with a deadline looming over my head and I can only work from start to finish.

Useless Fact #17
90% of my poems are written in under 10 minutes. Most of the times I don’t know what I’m going to write about until I sit down and start the first few words.

Useless Fact #18
The same thing happened when I wrote my first short story (if you don’t count the crap I wrote during the English exams in school and college). I had no clue what it was going to be about until I wrote the first line. I finished it at one go (took me about 50 minutes), making only a few minor changes here and there (mostly correcting spelling mistakes). Now you know why I’m never going to be published!

Useless Fact #19
I often remember songs that I really liked at one point but I have no clue how the lyrics go. Sometimes I don’t even remember the names of the songs or the singers but if I ever hear them again, everything comes back. For instance, I’m trying to remember the name of a Depeche Mode song that used to air maybe 7-8 years ago. The video had the band playing at some shady nightclub and getting cheated of their money at the end.

Useless Fact #20
I cry at the silliest and soppiest things in movies, TV serials and even TV commercials. No matter how many times I watch Steel Magnolias or Stepmom, I always cry. The same goes for the Hindi movie Masoom and countless others!