What you didn't know...

In light of the recent shoe wars, tie versus slip on, I noticed something about my husband that I hadn't ever realized in the 9 years of marriage.
"Um, what are you doing?" I asked, looking down at my husband crouched over my son's black sneakers.
"Tying his shoe!" frustrated, mainly because of his recent shunning of the slip-on merrill's.
"You still make bunny ears!" I laughed.
"Yeah, well how else do you tie shoes?"
Without a good answer, or wanting to complete the shoe tying task, I slunked off. I realized I had discovering something completely inane about my husband that I did not know. In doing so, I began to really listen and ask questions of others, knowing they must have magical talents as well. A surgeon I work with recently lost his grandfather, someone he was very close to growing up.
"He owned a trucking business" I was informed, after inquiring.
"Really?" wanting to know more.
"Yeah, he would wash trucks and work with his grandfather summers. I think he thought he was going into the trucking business."
and now he is a surgeon..I thought.
I remembered going to a 50th birthday party and scanning the collage of photo's of the honoree. 'who knew they could tap dance' I thought to myself a talent not typically useful in the day to day task management of running a clinic.
"Hey, what have I done that surprised you?" I asked my husband. Surely, I had a surprising talent.
Was it my ability to sleep with the TV on and rapidly awaken if you try to turn it off?
Could it be that I spend more than 20 dollars on one bra?
Possibly my keen ability to choose essentially the same style shoes with only minute differences but have at least 3 pairs in each color?
My innate joy picking through the tie racks at Filene's basement to find a Joseph Abboud or Zegna tie at 50-75% off.
My internal radar that alerts me to any time you are on the phone with your friend, trying to put in your fantasy baseball picks, or just listening to music so I can find a task for you to complete?
What about my ability to manage a crisis situation? Surely that was suprising?
I held my breath...
"I'm use to you by now."
Maybe so, but you never know.