What If You Had Mare’s Magic?
Mare has supernatural envy.
What would you do if you had “the suckiest power in the family”?
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Oh yeah, I’ve been waiting for this one.
It’s telekinesis and the and the speed trap radar. No more speeding tickets for me. See that fine upstanding officer pointing the radar gun at me? One little mental nudge and its aimed at the semi a half-mile back. Get pulled over because I wasn’t paying attention? “Golly officer, I’m sure I was speeding. Would you check again?” Remember to stifle the giggles as he watches the LED tick back one mph at a time stopping when it settles one mile under legal speed.
But don’t worry, folks. I’m a good driver, a really good drive, an excellent driver. (snicker)
ACK! Typo. I meant to say to the kindly officer I wasn’t speeding. Who me? Break the law by exceeding the posted limit? No, sir, that was not me. I think that radar thingy has a problem.
Thanks for listening. Sorry about the typo.
Oh my. I don’t understand why Mare thinks its the suckiest power. Listen, I’m so petite I have to have mini skirts hemmed. Life with Mare’s power would be heaven. No more stretching on tiptoe to reach that top shelf, or having to pull over something to stand on. And the things I could get done around the house! Move the furniture? No problem. Tote the ladder? A snap! And you could position pictures on the wall WHILE STANDING FAR ENOUGH BACK TO OBSERVE THE EFFECT!
Yes, but it’s not like turning things into something else. That would be so cool.
Maybe I have supernatural envy.
Ubergeek, do you want me to remove the duplicate post?
Yes please.
If I had the “suckiest power” of the Fortune sisters (which is still a whole lot better than the complete lack of power mere mortals have!), I would: have too much fun playing pranks on my dormmates, float my outfits every morning while deciding what to wear, fly (you’d be able to lift yourself, right?), and be tempted to play a superhero if I came across bad situations since slamming bad guys against the wall would be no problem with that kind of power
Yeah, see I don´t think this is a sucky power at all. I´m with Jamie in that I would be so tempted to become a superhero. And as someone who is on the short end, I would appreciate the ability to get stuff down from the high shelf. Also I think I would have had so much fun when I was little just zooming myself around on pieces of furniture. Like has anyone read The Chronicles of Chrestomanci? The kids make this mirror float and then hang onto it while they zoom across the room. Jenny, yohave you seen X3 and the damage Phoenix does? So not a sucky power.
I’d float the coffee pot from kitchen counter to computer desk and let it pour me another fresh brew. It would be like being your own personal Jeeves.
I would use it to get me whatever garden tool/cordless phone/cell phone/remote control I left someplace stupid. I could use it to dig up and replant plants too.
You could make people believe their houses were haunted. It would be a blast on Halloween.
Would totally use it to make my cleaning supplies clean house by themselves. Then I’d have lots of time for reading and a clean house. As opposed to lots of time for reading and a dirty house, which is the only reasonable alternative given my current lack of psychokinetic talents.
Well I still say it’s much more useful. Hanging drapes, removing light fixtures for cleaning, mowing the yard while sitting on the porch swing sipping margaritas. The possibilities are endless.
It may be the “suckiest” but SOOO useful. If the kid is into something, just levitate the child back to somewhere safe. The kid would grow up hating it, but that’s ok too. They would also grow up respecting you more. “Don’t mess with Mom, she’ll knock you on your ass.”
And there is the whole house cleaning thing. You could just move all the dust and dirt back outside.
So, I did the question thing to find out I’m most like Mare - then I went to read more about her and found out I’m even more like her - being the youngest and all. And while I don’t think her powers suck, I can see how she would think they suck.
If I had Mare’s power I’d probably play lots of tricks on people. Things like, take away their food and drinks when they weren’t looking. Have tihngs things spill on people who annoyed me. Move chairs when people went to sit in them, but honestly, that would get boring after a while. So, now I’m stuck. What would I do? I’d have to find a way to harness it to do somemthing special with it. Something that would help others. My nephews have Muscular Dystrophy and they can no longer walk or run or play like other children. They have done quite well in their wheelchairs but I think I’d find away to use my powers to help them move about differently. Swing a bat. Run the bases. Stand and hit a golf ball. Something like that.
I’m with McB on the height thing. In addition, I would use the power to weed the garden. Then lift, swirl, and generally scare the squirrels, rabbits, deer, chipmunks, crows, and snakes to STAY OUT OF MY GARDEN. I would also use the power to start the tillers, weedeater, blower, and shredder that I’m too short to have a good pull on.
If I had Mare’s power I’d have to fight against becoming an absolute slothful slug. Really, it’s license to be physically lazy. Not only could I laze around eating chocolate, but I wouldn’t have to move my lardbutt off the couch to obtain the chocolate in the first place. The chocolate would come to me. So, I guess I’d have to use my telekinetic superpower to move myself. Is that possible? Could I use my own magic to keep my legs on the treadmill or the stairmaster or the eliptical for an hour when I really want to stop at 10 minutes? That’s my pick!
I should have talked to you all before I wrote Mare. This is great.
Come to think of it, she did move Crash’s coffee cup. So she’s not exactly mature with the powers. And then there was the bean bag chair. . .
Jenny, I don’t think Mare has the suckiest powers at all. Like Jen-t though, I can see how she’d feel like that.
She’s got the powers that can most easily be used in front of other people, and she’s done that for years. I mean, Dreama practically worships her, because Dreama has noticed how things just happen ‘right’ when Mare is around.
If I had her power, I think I’d probably use it like she does, but I’d realize it a bit more. I’d fix the ‘little things’ that happen around me every day, the ones that make such a huge difference to the people involved, but maybe not in the big scheme of the universe way. People wouldn’t spill their coffee around me, pens wouldn’t fall to the floor, nobody would slip and fall if I were around (unless they really needed to land on the ground!), things you were reaching for would be closer, heavy boxes would be lighter. Those things make a difference, a BIG difference, and are important. No, it’s not turning straw into gold, or turning yourself into an owl, but it’s touching people, in a way that matters to them.
Oh, wow, the TEMPTATION! Think about it -Mare is the perfect pool shark. But it really wouldn’t be any fun winning that way. Bah. Oh, but think how much fun you could have entertaining kids with your superior bubble-blowing skills! I don’t have the manual dexterity to do it the normal way, so I’d definitely use it to make sculptures, too. No more frustration because something you can so clearly SEE you can’t hold your hand steady enough to make. That would be… lovely. Just… lovely.
Ooo, how subtly can she work? Maybe you could go swimming underwater and have bubbles of air come floating DOWN to you! That’d be pretty neat. And you could play piano without having to stop to turn the pages… you could play piano without being near the keyboard! You could play duets with yourself! Ooo, fun-fun.
But those are all small things, little bits and pieces.
I’d actually probably do something like work in the pits at Nascar races so I could make SURE that having a little doo-hicky come lose at the wrong time would NEVER cause an accident. Not that I know much about cars currently, but I’m sure there are things along those lines -oh! I know! A surgeon -think about it! You could do things inside first, without even cutting, and just make an opening for the appendix to come floating through, or whatever! (I’d have to research that, too.)
There are lots of possibilities.
On the other hand, if had Mare’s powers I probably would have grown up with a different personality, so who knows?
But, oh! It’s fun to speculate!
Well, if I had Mare’s power I would drop things on people’s heads when they annoyed me. Potatoes, flowerpots, manure. Nothing dangerous, just a good whack upside the head when they’re irritating.
But of course I’m so sweet I’d never do such a thing.
Unless I could get away with it.
I do have the suckiest power in my family. Rather than wit and humor, my talent is the ability to ace standardized tests. Pretty pathetic. You don’t envy the more talented siblings, you enjoy their warmth, kindness, humor and wit.
I covet Mare’s power. Daily. The World Market I manage has chairs all way up high along the perimeter that people insist on buying. Plus all of the big, heavy boxes of furniture in the stock room. They want those, too. Plus, The Powers That Be are always insisting that we rearrange the store in some grand, impactful *shudder* configuration. And did I mention that I’m 5′ 2″? I have been trying to figure out a way to attach “Go-Go-Gadget Arms” to my body for years, but that hasn’t been going so well. With Mare’s power, the time I could save on hunting down a step ladder alone would add years onto my life.
Suckiest power? Not at all!
Imagine all the furniture I could fix with that power!!! heheheeee …
Other than that, I imagine I could whip up family dinners fairly quickly. And maybe flip out my mother in law, passing her the salt.
Ooooh … that would be fun.
Well, I had a whole post typed and suddenly it blinked and was gone! Mare’s magic is great, actually. I would never have to lug that 50 lb bag of dogfood into the house ever again! And the next time the cat snuck out I could just snatch him up without the merry chase around the neighborhood! And rush hour traffic would be a thing of the past–I would just levitate the bus over the traffic to the train station (everyone sleeps anyway–they’d never notice!). And housecleaning–I might actually enjoy it. I could manipulate the vacuum and dust mop while sipping ice tea AND pick up the couches and beds and get all the dust bunnies hiding under them. As for moving–well, I guess I wouldn’t ever need to hire movers again, but maybe I would anyway. There is nothing in this world I hate more than moving–except maybe going to the DMV.
having just worn a (admittedly not too terrible) bridesmaid’s dress this weekend, i’m going to say that i would never need a push up bra again if I had mare’s power. those puppies would stay up, and exactly where i wanted them no matter how low the V or how narrow the straps.
Well I have fibro.. and know many that have this also. It sucks being 29 and not being able to clean or take care of my small kids some days. So I would use this power to help me and others like me to feel like real people. To be able to do simple things like housework, or being able lol to float the wash down b.c I cant carry it…I would so use this just to feel like a normal person and to have my family not bare the brunt of my illness.
I think this would be a really cool power to have. Anytime I move, I could sit on my sofa and watch TV and still pack at the same time. I could also use this power to reach things on the shelf at the store. Being only 5′2 really makes it hard to get things in the store when they are at the pack of the shelf. Getting out of speeding tickets would be great too! What can I say? I like to drive fast!