Magnets for Weird Things.

LOL, I'm the same way with kids, they just gravitate towards me... PTA meetings are always fun, I end up with 10-20 kids around me, which makes them my responsibility... yikes ;)

You know the term 'if you didn't have bad luck, you wouldn't have any luck at all'? Yeah, that was written about ME. I have the most unbelievably bad luck EVER!! So I'm a magnet for bad luck ;)

My husband, funny to say, is a magnet for gay guys. That paired with my 'gaydar', most of the time when we go out together, we end up with a few new gay male friends, HAHAHA!! At my brothers wedding rehearsal dinner, my husband stepped out with another one of the wives for a cigarette. She came in laughing so hard she was crying, because my husband got suckered into a lovers quarrel with 2 gay guys outside, LOL!!

Oh - my sister is the child whisperer - that is what I call her - kids flock to her - LOL!
Me, I only tend to attract old sandwich baggies - I swear that everytime I run (about for times a week, different routes mind you) go to the park, drive - go shopping even, I end up with one to two ziploc style bags blowing on me, sticking to my shoe, getting caught on my tire, etc.
Geesh!

Misfits, underdogs, nerds, people in a panic, .......I could go on and on...great Q!

My husband is the child magnet too, not the ones that want to talk to him, but groups of 2-4 that sit practically on top of him, screaming or running and elbowing him. It never fails and all I can do is look at him and laugh.

Ha! I know how to turn the kid-magnet on and off :D :D :D

On: Look at them like real people
Off: Pretend they're pets

((I'm dead serious... it took me years to learn that most adults put on "Puppy!" or "Kitty!" faces around kids. But if you look at them like they're people (aka can be talking to an adult and then look at a child and not change your expression or voice tone an iota) it's Pied Piper time. It can be subtle, but kids are on it.))

Gravity. If it can be fallen up, down, or on... I will find a way.

Breaking computer programs. Adobe asked me to be a beta tester at one point, after 6 or 7 calls in a day where there were all legitimate bugs I'd found, and my call history clocked me at something like 30 bugs that week. If there is a bug in a program, I will find it. ((I never read instruction manuals/users guides on computer programs, I just fiddle around for a few days. Over which time I apparently find every bug they missed... becasue I go about trying to "do" things in a way that's logical to ME, but that doesn't apparently occur to them. This is any program I start working. Wish I'd taken Adobe up on the offer, but I was slammed with school at the time. Great company, Adobe. Anyhow, I digress.))

Strange situations. Really, I don't believe people that "this stuff only happens to me". I just think I'm talking about it while other people keep their dignity intact.