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[-] thenextguy@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

I snap my fingers as I approach red traffic lights and my confirmation bias is off the charts.

[-] beefbaby182@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

If you're driving at night, you gotta flash them brights.

[-] ValenThyme@reddthat.com 13 points 2 weeks ago

only for 40 years

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

Sometimes when I'm with my 5 and 3 year olds, yeah.

[-] finley@lemm.ee 8 points 2 weeks ago
[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 weeks ago

Working in a grocery store in high school blunted that fun for me, because when you're busy and trying to go in and out those doors can be frustratingly slow. I like to think better of my Jedi powers.

But, since then, I do get the desire to shoulder-check the door to pop it off the tracks - so I can use it as a swing door. I got good at doing it when I'd do cart returns.

[-] Jeredin@lemm.ee 6 points 2 weeks ago

Wait, there are people who don’t? J/k but I like to pretend to kick the air as if I’m kicking a door open/down. I get looks, and I’m okay with that.

[-] beefbaby182@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

That's what I thought, too. It's almost like a second nature to wave my hand across those automatic doors.

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

And at stoplights, yes.

"You will turn green"

turns green

"Yeah, I'm a fuckin' Jedi."

"No you're not. You just watched the light on the cross street."

"I find your lack of faith disturbing."

[-] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

I make Sith force gestures

[-] CPMSP@midwest.social 5 points 2 weeks ago

You mean other people don't?!?

[-] Tazerface@lemmings.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

No. But when a door doesn't open I always think of the Simpsons episode where Bart sold his sole to Milhouse.

[-] JoShmoe@ani.social 4 points 2 weeks ago

I don’t always use my Jedi powers, but when I do I prefer Dos Equis.

[-] authorinthedark@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 weeks ago
[-] radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago
[-] anas@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

No, but I’m going to. Thanks.

[-] AlbertSpangler@lemmings.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Lift / elevator doors. Often small single finger swipes so others don't notice.

[-] blayde@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago

I like to do a little karate chop

[-] lurch@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

I'm more of a toaster magician 😅

[-] spittingimage@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

I used to, but my timing was so bad it was just embarrassing.

[-] AlbertSpangler@lemmings.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Slow down a bit, like you're trying but it's heavier than you thought and you're kinda struggling with it

[-] AlecSadler@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I'm a below average height male and on periodic occasion I don't trigger the motion sensing ones and it's awkward. Now I typically always just raise my arm and wave instinctively. Not quite jedi gestures, but eh.

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 2 points 2 weeks ago

I do it to the subway doors sometimes. At least once it made someone laugh pretty hard, which was nice.

[-] Iamsqueegee@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

And automated paper towel dispensers… “You will give me a paper towel, now.” And they reply (in my mind), “To gibba pappa towa, now”.

[-] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

I do it to get traffic lights to change before I have to brake.

[-] beefbaby182@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I just thought everybody did this...

[-] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

My old town had stop lights that were timed nearly perfectly if you went the speed limit. Only exception was when they were resetting from an emergency vehicle passing (or pedestrian).

I would wave my hand and mutter some Jedi stuff at it and it would change. People still gunned it from one light to get stopped at the next...

[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

Considering my history with doors, yes I have tried that, along with the Thanos snap and getting in trouble for trying the kamehameha on a school bully.

[-] wildcardology@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago
[-] morphballganon@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

My gestures, if I were to make them, would be more akin to Dr. Strange's sling ring gestures, Tony Stark's virtual desktop gestures, or John Anderton's virtual desktop gestures.

[-] Psych@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

Hey man sorry to ask you this but can you put a good word in for me with your dad ?

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