It would be invisibility
I know what you’re thinking…
What about flying? Wouldn’t you rather be able to fly?
Or what about super strength? Wouldn’t you rather be able to stop a train?
You make valid points. Being able to fly would save me all those expensive flights to visit my parents who live 1,500 miles away. But that would lead to the inevitable calls from my mom saying things like, “Your dad needs his nose hairs trimmed and I can’t find my glasses so you need to fly in tonight.”
And super strength might be handy for stopping trains when I’m late to meet my girlfriends downtown for an evening of margaritas and mayhem. However, it would also eliminate all excuses for being late. I’d be getting calls saying, “Why are you late? It’s your turn to put drops in Suzy’s eyes after her laser eye surgery!” And I couldn’t say, “Sorry, I missed my train.”
So, I’m sticking with invisibility. It would help me immensely on a day-to-day basis. I’ve got four teens. When they see I’m around they become incapable of caring for themselves and would starve staring into a full refrigerator. However, when I’m out they each turn into Gordon Ramsay, whipping up fine cuisine. Also, I could eavesdrop on their conversations, read their texts and even examine their emails over their shoulders allowing me to totally bust them for infractions well in advance. And I’d totally catch the one who doesn’t clean the sink after he brushes his teeth. So far, that crime has been committed by the elusive “Not Me”.
Plus, being invisible would save me a ton of cash on clothes, hair and makeup. I’d still have to bathe and brush my teeth because invisibility doesn’t eliminate smell, but I can deal with that.
In the books I write, I like to give my heroines super powers or talents that they don’t necessarily want. In GROUNDS TO KILL, I’ve given Jen Hamby the supernatural ability of automatic writing. She gets messages from a spirit guide. It’s like being a stenographer for the great beyond. This would be an awesome skill if she could get useful information like winning lottery numbers. Instead, it only tells her when her boyfriend is cheating (the jerk!) but doesn’t tell her who murdered her arch nemesis.
If I could choose another super power it would be mind control so I could convince you all to buy my book.
What super power would you choose?
WENDY ROBERTS is an armchair sleuth and a fan of all things mysterious. She lives in Surrey, British Columbia, with four teens and a tenacious terrier. You can visit her on the Web at www.wendyroberts.com, like her on Facebook and follow her on Twitter @authorwendy
Teleportation! Flying is only fun until the weather turns nasty.
Duh — whatever super power is needed to consume calories without gaining weight!
Nicole, teleportation is a good one but you’d have to keep it a secret or everyone would expect you to be on time lol!
Dulcie, that would definitely be my next choice. I’d eat ice cream, potato chips and chocolate all day long *sigh*
I’d love to be able to blink — ala Bewitched — and completely clean the house.
Flying doesn’t appeal to me. I’m too afraid of heights.
I want Harry Potter’s wand. *Swish and flick.* No more dirty dishes, laundry, dirty house. Oh, and I’d like the owl that goes with not being a Muggle any more. Thanks.
Meg & Laura, I foolishly thought having a number of kids would guarantee I’d have help around the house once they became teenagers. Okay … you can stop laughing now.
I’d like to be lucky – so whatever I did would turn out right. Wouldn’t that be great?
Oh, Nell, that would be the best, wouldn’t it?
Invisibility, definitely.
Flying is great and all, but what about luggage? That just sounds tiring. (And the height thing is not my forte either.)
But so much fun you could have being invisible…and so much dirt you’d learn.
I’d choose to be able to become my characters from my novel & imagination. Whatever I imagined, I’d live it and when it was time to take care of my family, I’d return to being the practical old me. LOL.
I’d like the invisibility thing… But…on the other hand, the ability to turn thin air into chocolate with just flick of the fingers would be kind of cool… not to mention yummy!
Jeannie, it’s true. All I want is the dirt lol!
Phoenix, that’s very creative of you. I never thought of choosing to become one of my characters. Although mine get shot at a lot so maybe not lol!
Angie, I’m now craving chocolate!
Ah, such a dilemma – in a good way. I’d also settle for Samantha’s twitchy nose in ‘Bewitched. Can’t watch reruns because NO woman I know would cook or clean house the hard way, and no decent man who loved them would expect them to, if they had her powers. LOL at the power to convince us to buy your books. You already have that, Wendy. It’s called talent.
I’d love to be able to fly and also to become invisible!
Right now I’d settle for an opening chapter that would write itself. Super power enough for me today. Sigh.
I think definitely flying! That would be sooo cool!
Teleportation, and the ability to take someone with me. I don’t even care if I have to be on time all the time; my folks live 6000 miles away, and most of my friends live 3-6k miles away as well. It costs me a fortune to see anyone. Also, sushi and Mexican food in England ranges between a joke, and non-existant. I could get behind teleporting to good restaurants from time to time (and avoid customs when I want to bring meat or cheese into a country).
Although the calorie thing has merit…hmm…choices…
I’d want to be able to travel in time. That way, I could never be late to returning a book to the library…or picking up dry cleaning…or the PTA meeting for my kids…or the start of a movie! And, on the other hand, I could pop out for a bite to eat and a cup of tea in the middle of a long, boring meeting without anyone even noticing I was gone, and hit the Black Friday sales as many times as I like without worrying about crowds!
Oh, and maybe save the world and stuff like that too… :giggle:
The whole eat-whatever-I-like-without-gaining-a-pound idea is a very close second, tho…
To be able to think of a super power then that super power would come to me..
ie. I want to be invisible – I just think and BAM I am invisible, ect
That way I have pretty much every super power but I can sometimes be normal