What's the nearest thing you've got to a superpower?

I've got this inexplicable ability to not quite completely screw myself over. I think I inherited it from my dad - he's cracked his head open bad twice and survived, fallen over 50ft off a railroad bridge into blackberries and survived, and was a hitchhiker in the 70s when there was a spike of killings of all kinds involving hitchhikers (yes, he had some close calls). He's had plenty of other things happen that really should have probably killed him or had some longstanding effect, but he's been fine.

For me, I've fallen off a 20+ foot cliff and was unscathed (I landed on the single small patch of soft sand amid blackberry bushes and wicked driftwood), I've seen my ankles twist multiple times to the side and never had them broken (only hurt some, never long - though I did manage to almost break an ankle stepping off the school bus my senior year). Nearly broke my neck on a trampoline but ended up fine. There has been a lot of falls and slips where I should have cracked or broken something that I end up fine. There's also been times I'm obviously failing a class or something and somehow I end up with a C or better.

So I suppose I'm saying I'm really freakin' lucky.

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