What kind of super power would you have?

RayWohlfarth

I was traveling from a meeting about 3 hours from home and as so often happens, my mind tended to wander. My children think I have some sort of undiagnosed attention disorder. Instead of thinking about a service call, I thought about what superhero power would best help my in my job. If I could fly, I could zoom to each service call. If I had tremendous strength, I would be able to install boilers single handedly. If I had a laser vision, I could cut and or weld pipes with my eyes. I am decided on flying as I hate traffic. Just curious what superhero owner you would choose

Solid_Fuel_Man

The ability to see through walls, pipes, etc. Could diagnose all sorts of things. But could also be a bit distracting.. if you know what I mean.

Taylor

Harvey Ramer

I have always wanted an anti gravity platform. Something I could put all my tools on and it would elevate me to whatever height I desired. It would make no noise other than the built in radio.

Larry Weingarten

What a fun question! I imagine I'd want to be able to eliminate fear, as most of it is misplaced. Imagine how things would change... Greed would vanish and people would be a bit less strange. At a minimum, people would come to the door when I knocked, rather than hiding from the tall guy with a beard.

Yours, Larry

ChrisJ

The ability to understand why people do what they do.

Steamhead

ChrisJ said:

The ability to understand why people do what they do.

Not even Superman could do that................

ChrisJ

Steamhead said:

ChrisJ said:

The ability to understand why people do what they do.

Not even Superman could do that................

True,
But it's genuinely what I'd like.

hot_rod

Steamhead said:

ChrisJ said:

The ability to understand why people do what they do.

Not even Superman could do that................

Mohammad Ali was on a plane, reading for take off.

Flight attendant tell him to put on his seatbelt.

He replied, superman don't need no seatbelt!

Flight attendant said superman don't need no airplane.. Put on the belt.

RayWohlfarth

Wow so many great ideas. Perhaps I could change my mind and have the powers of ObiWon from Star Wars and could use my mind to make sure people pay on time and are satisfied.

RayWohlfarth

Taylor I would get in lots of trouble with that X-ray vision

BobC

I's like to have the power to hear what people mean, not so much what they say. That would make fixing stuff a lot easier.

Bob

Paul S_3

I would like x-ray vision.... so i can see inside pipes, boilers, compressors, coils etc would make my job so much easier

Mad Dog_2

X-RAY vision to weed out the people that don't appreciate what we do (the experience we have, the risk we take, the responsibility we take on) to beat us up on our pricing. 30 yrs in, they still slip by...and they are usually folks I know...Mad dog

Danny Scully

Time travel, so I could get to talk to the dead men as they were installing their systems.

RayWohlfarth

Wow lots of creative people here. If I could go back in time I would like to know how they threaded 12" pipe

Boon

I would want to be Read The F*#%!g Manual Man with a photographic memory as a sidecar because throughout my project I would read and re-read manuals and plan everything out and then I'd make some last minute impulsive change that would contradict the manuals. So frustrating.

hot_rod

Identify temperature and voltage with a touch of a finger.

Is that one or two wishes?

And for a lifestyle power, eliminate hate and greed.

Alan (California Radiant) Forbes

None of what you wish for will ever be. I play the lottery only to dream of what I would do with the money; winning is (almost) impossible.

It's nice to dream, but be thankful for the skills that you have struggled for and acquired. If you had them handed to you, I doubt that they would be appreciated.

Struggle makes us yearn for further knowledge and you will never know everything. That's what makes life continually interesting.

For every skill that you have acquired, don't you feel that there is so much more to learn? I do.

My customers are amazed at my depth of knowledge about my trade, but I feel like an infant to what experience is till out there to learn.

Just sayin'.

nicholas bonham-carter

Infra-red vision would be most useful, especially with a little X-ray thrown in.--NBC

rick in Alaska

The ability to see water flow would be very helpful. And one that I know we will see in the near future is the ability to be able to see smells. Would be nice to be able to visually see the source of a gas leak or a sewer smell or whatever. That would be cool.
Rick