Since the start of this year, on-and-off I've been trying to improve the dexterity of my left hand and practice writing with it. Just a couple words every other day to slowly build the ability.
So what's the end goal? I think I'd like to become at least "double-takingly" good; I want to write with my left hand in a public social setting and make someone double-take. Either this hypothetical human knows I'm not left-handed and has a laugh, or, like most people seeing someone write left-handed, someone will ask for confirmation that I'm left-handed, to which I get to respond "No." Then in the latter case, I get to have a laugh myself, to the utter bewilderment of others.
This is not the first instance of practicing something in order to illicit a double-take and make someone question what they just witnessed. On a similar whim, I decided fairly early on in my life that I wanted to be able to eat a lemon casually. I didn't want to call attention to the eating of the lemon, and I didn't want to make any reaction in my body language or face that I was eating a lemon. To eat a lemon in any significant quantity with a straight face was a funny and impressive feat to me, and surely my peers would feel the same!
Over my lifetime of enjoying sour candies and building up the tolerance, I began eating the citrus slices that were served with drinks when I hung out with my friends. I wouldn't make a scene about it. I'd just take it out of my drink and pop it in my mouth like I was eating anything else. The reactions that would come from this would be the most satisfying as they were most likely to be a double-take as envisioned.
"Did I just see that? Did Kevin just eat the lemon slice? Rind and all? Without making a face?"
The lack of possessive adjective preceding "drinks" in the earlier paragraph is no mistake; I would try to eat everyone's citrus whenever an opportunity arose. Like before, I wouldn't want to make a fuss, but since consent is important, I would need to at least be more explicit in my approach than with my own drink. In any natural pause in conversation I would try to casually interject "are you going to hit that?" while gesturing towards an untouched slice of lemon or lime. The confusion that follows is at least pretty much as funny as someone double-taking at the actual act of eating the lemon, rind and all, without making a face. The usual response is usually a green light to go for it, since no one else is trying to eat their lemon, rind and all, regardless of face making.
I try not to call attention to it despite having to ask directly. I'll try to do so especially without the full party present. This would slowly propagate the knowledge that I can eat a lemon, rind and all, without making a face. My hope is that this will slowly ascend to myth and folklore status. Sometime in the future, in a conversation without me, a legend may be born.
"Did you know Kevin can eat a lemon without making a face? Rind and all! I saw him do it, I swear!"
I never said I was double-takingly good yet.