Hey Pandas, What Was Your "It's My Time To Shine" Moment? (Closed)

In fourth grade, my dad took me to Take Your Child to Work Day at NIH and there was an activity where we were extracting DNA from strawberries. Later on in the year, there was a school science fair. I wanted to do more DNA extraction. I made a trifold display of 6 or so different ways to extract dna from strawberries. When the judge came up to me, her expression told me and my parents that she thought it was a parent project. She asked a question about the project to my dad, who said to ask me. I started talking about it, and you could see the moment when she realized I knew what I was talking about.

While in Portland for my birthday, my boyfriend and I stopped to go to Powell's. Well we parked his convertible and put some things in the trunk. Including the keys. I didn't have a spare and the hide a key had poofed weeks ago. I remembered that it was possible to open the trunk by shorting out a fuse. A quick search to see exactly what I was supposed to touch, a bent keyring, a carefully covered hand and we had keys again.

I remember one time, my little cousin and I were in my basement with his Nintendo Switch. He was struggling with a boss in a game and wanted me to help him. I, a relatively good gamer, miraculously beat the boss after the first try.

I am actually pretty proud of myself-

I was seven, and had accompanied my dad to the pet store to get dog food. I
saw a big cockatoo with his toe caught in a rope toy, hanging upside down and flapping pathetically. I leapt into action and told one of the workers right away. She rescued him, AND brought him out for me to meet. I'll never forget that enormous (to me) bird walking up my arm and nibbling my hair. :)

That time a cousin left his keys in the driver's seat after locking himself out of his own car. He didn't have those automated locks, but the kind you have to pull up/push down (so even when locked, it still protrudes up a bit). He did leave his window down just a crack, though. Not enough for either of us to fit our hands through, obviously, but enough for me to put my "clearly watches too many movies" wit to use lol. I went and got a wire hanger from in the house, took a few minutes to unravel it, and kind of fashioned it into this hook. The lock had this sort of gap under the top of it, and I had to get this hooked end latched to that part, and carefully angle it so that it would pull the lock up without slipping, otherwise I'd have to mess with the wire again. After a few minutes of lock fishing, the lock popped up the rest of the way, and my cousin happily let himself back in the car...just to get his keys. Cheaper than getting a locksmith to come down and pry open the door, though, so I'd say it worked out!

one of them was when i was working for the district attorney's office. there was a mandate that stated that the division that i worked in, family support, had to have an outreach program. until then, there was little done in this area. within six months i had designed a 'manual' detailing our function and how it worked, set up and attended any public event, made presentations at schools and then broadened that by setting up classes in the various prisons for those members who were going to be released in order to have them know what their responsibilities were if they had kids. i also started approaching communities that i felt were underserved or outright ignored such as the lbgtq+ (mentality was that gay people didn't have kids), eventually, i traveled the state to other prisons and this all led to my office getting a state and national award. however, once it was obvious that i was getting too much attention for my work one of the boss' girlfriend in the office was given the job and it just kind of died. felt bad about that. but, at least i did good while is there and when the environment began to be too toxic with politics as well as corrupt i moved on to another division.

whenever my teacher asks us to read something out in class! i do drama and love to read, so im pretty good with expression and reading :)

and when we have to do cold reads (basically only reading through a script once) in acting. i am really good at memorising lines !

Was at a meeting with people I didn’t know and the presenter was having a difficult time writing responses on the white board. I stepped in and wrote the responses for him. Everyone was amazed at my ability to write in a straight line and how legible it was. 14 years as a 1st and 2nd grade teacher came in handy that day!

I have a few!

1) I was working at Starbucks and someone came in who spoke Thai and some Korean. I wasn't fluent in Thai at the time (I'm technically still not FLUENT fluent, per se, but I could get by pretty well), but I could field an order for "(whatever the drink was) in the size not small and not big and much cream" partially in Korean, partially in Thai.
2) Another language one! Too far away to see subs in a movie theater so I translated the little bits of Mandarin for my friends.
3) The perks of being a procrastinator. In the middle of writing a school play however long ago we realized that the lower school would be watching us too...that got hectic as I rewrote half a play a week before we performed it.
4) A whale watch a while ago. They saw a whale but weren't sure what kind. I saw it though, and knew it was a North Atlantic right whale, which is super endangered (I think there are approximately 350 left TㅅT). It was awesome.

I was born at a young age...
I will always shine! ^u^

on a field trip there was a very hard puzzle and I was the only one that knew how to do it. I played a game called "The Devil's Pitchfork" and it was the exact same thing just on a larger scale.

Whenever anyone mentions ancient Greece, Latin, or Greek mythology:
Me: opens mouth delightedly.
My family learned very quickly not at ask if they didn't want their ear chewed off

Shoutout to my bench mate!
My bench mate was on the first day of her period and wanted to use the washroom really urgently, But of course, our male teacher was like "No breaks while I am teaching!" And he slams the chalk and duster on the table.

This girl shoves her (unused) pad from her pocket on the desk, right in front of his face, and goes: "How about you go teach yourself the 'fifth-grade secret- separate talk' and shove some knowledge into that brain of yours?!"

She stomps out of the class slamming the door behind her while the class is either awestruck or holding their laughter in.

when I passed all the courses and became an aircraft mechanic crew chief

I am a singer. I have done many gigs from a young age. When I was about 10, I was at my rehearsal and this girl who was a year younger than me and who also was doing something at the company came up to me when I waited for rehearsal to start. She said, "So you have a good voice huh?" I said "I think haha" She told me to warm up with her and so I did and we took turns doing the solfege. She then said "Wow your almost as good as me" I then mentioned how I sang with a celebrity on national television as a backup singer. She was jealous. This was awhile ago.

Not had one yet. I don’t have much time left to achieve one either.

We did a finish the Disney lyric kahoot in class. To this day I am still the reigning champion

I am not very good at much but I am good at math (or at least the best in my class) and in my last school I was the one you bugged for help if you weren't paying attention I don't like talking to people especially because sometimes they wouldn't even try and just want me to do it for them. Anyways at my knew school I kept to my self until one semester me and my friend had the same class, she was struggling in math and her grades were dropping I tutored her for a while until she began to understand the tutorial now she has a A in math and knows who to come to if she gets stuck.

Well, it was probably the moment when somebody I knew was singing a song and they sing one word wrong and then I correct them as fast as possible hehe

I was in the audience at a band contest. Between their sets, there was a quiz that everybody could participate in - they ask a question from the stage, and if you think you got the answer, raise your hand, get a mic, give your answer and then, if you win, receive some kind of a price, like a free meal or drink or something similar. Question was the total area of the city of Braunschweig. I studied there, and had just the night before looked up wikipedia's page about Braunschweig and read the area of it and wondered that, although only half the number of people live there, it's almost as large as Hannover. Anyway, one guess was 12 square kilometers, one was 50, and one was 192.13. Currently, it's a bit larger, seems there was a correction recently, but their numbers had said 192.12, which meant I won.