[ WP ] Take a seemingly useless super power , and describe a situation where it ended up being extremely useful .

`` You're kidding me,'' John said with a smirk. `` All of the superpowers in the world, and you pick this one?'' 
 
 `` I told you, I wished for the power of flight, and the genie found a loophole, okay? It's not like I wanted the power of...'' 
 
 `` Hovering,'' John painfully said. `` Hovering six inches above the ground. And you ca n't even move around. It's just stationary hovering. You should really be more careful next time you find a genie.'' 
 
 I groaned. `` John, I'm pretty sure that genies are a once in a lifetime kind of thing.'' 
 
 John chuckled. `` Well, you never know. Anyway, what was your second wish?'' 
 
 I sighed. `` I wished for three more wishes.'' 
 
 John facepalmed. `` Come on, man! You know that never works!'' 
 
 `` I was n't thinking straight,'' I said regretfully. `` The genie just shot me down, and then he said that it counted as my second wish!'' 
 
 `` So that leaves the third wish. I assume it has something to do with our current predicament?'' 
 
 I grimaced. `` Um, yeah. I wished for our city to be hotter. It was negative three degrees and I was freezing.'' 
 
 `` And so he conjured a volcano and sent lava streams into the city,'' John said. 
 
 `` Yeah, pretty much. Although it worked out pretty well. Turns out the lava streams were exactly five inches high.'' 
 
 John squirmed in my arms. The lava ran below us, just barely missing my toes as I hovered over the red mass. `` I guess that was lucky. It's a shame about all the dead people, though.'' 
 
 A charred skeleton floated underneath as he said this. I cringed at the thought of all the trouble this would cause. But soon we had more pressing problems. Both of our stomachs rumbled at the same time. We looked at each other. John said, `` How long are we going to have to hover here?'' 
 
 `` About 2 days, give or take. The lava will take time to harden.'' 
 
 `` Oh, okay.'' Silence. `` You got a granola bar?''
