What are three things you are impatient with in your life?
How can you practice patience with each one?
Hm… This was an interesting question. And I’m giving it mixed reviews!
Waiting in waiting rooms for doctors’ appointments…
“““I DO try to be patient in this area. I always have a book or Sudoku puzzles with me. And I have to keep reminding myself that even though “those other people” came in a long time after me and it’s not fair they should go first, more than one doctor usually uses the waiting room.
Waiting for his nibs and Bran to do something I’ve asked them to do…
“““The jury is still out on this one because there’s a fine line between being patient and enabling. While I’m waiting, I try not to nag — until the third or fourth time I ask, that is.
I have no patience for adults who interrupt me when I’m in the middle of a conversation with someone else because they feel THEY can’t wait until I’m done…
“““I think that is rude. If they stand quietly by for a few seconds I always excuse myself for a minute from whoever I’m talking to and give the person my attention. This is partly MY fault for letting it happen. As a wise woman I know said in a post yesterday…
“My motto is: Be truthful but tactful. If it’s not important enough to mention, it’s surely not worth holding a grudge over. Say it, so it doesn’t go on lay-away. Don’t put it into storage so that you can make an appointment in your mind to be mad at someone again later. Speak at the moment an infraction occurs.” (Ruth at praypower4today)
I guess I really need to work on that one!
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How about you? What are the three things that drive your patience to distraction? (This is actually a very revealing question, isn’t it!)
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Impromptu Promptlings 
1) Myself when I mess up or I’m not doing as well as I could be. 2) People who interrupt me mid-sentence when I’m trying to answer their questions. 3) WordPress when it’s freezing up and being slow.
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I just realized I haven’t had that freezing up problem for a long while. That MIGHT be because I haven’t been on here very much lately!
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I’ve found that the freezing problem is a whole lot less when I use Google Chrome. I was using Internet Explorer, and it always froze up.
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I was getting impatient for you to start posting again!!
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Will be emailing you soon!
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I’m much more patient than I used to be, but I still struggle with (1) traffic jams, even though they’res beyond my control, (2) people who take long pauses between words, and (3) being put on hold during phone calls (although this might be because of the awful music, rather than the delay).
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Had to laugh at your comment about the music. OML do I get THAT! Don’t businesses know that quiet, gentle music tames the orneriest customers???
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Hi Calen..I can honestly my patience and tolerance have dramatically improved over the years…Thank you that amazing lady of mine, her gracious attitude was angelic …
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I’ve thought about Carole a lot. That’s the way I want to be when the time comes. I want to be as calm and full of faith as possible for my family. (But I can be such a whiny baby!)
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Being a whiny lovable big baby is ok !!
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Hmm….My dog. When she gets up during the night barking but can’t make up her mind to go outside and check things out and I have a hard time getting back to sleep.
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Ooo… I hear you on that one. ANY kind of interruption in the night like that puts my nerves on edge so bad!!!
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Tis an honor indeed, M’Lady! Thanks for the kind mention. It’s not always easy to speak your mind in an emotional moment.
I remember once, back when I was still able to drive, I confronted a woman who’d parked her huge van across three disabled parking spaces. I think I wrote a post about it. I told her that she’d taken up all the spaces so I had to park far away and I’d just come from my MS infusion. She had such an innocent expression when she said to me, “All you had to do was ask.” But I heard it as an insult. Why would I have to ask to park in a space designated for me? Maybe we just all speak different languages!
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Oh! That would irritate me, too! What gives her the right to take up three spaces anyway! That’s sort of “self” centered. I have a friend who is very assertive. She went to pull into a parking place at a restaurant and almost hit this guy who was standing in it. He wouldn’t move, and after a few minutes of stalemate she went to find another space. As she walked into the restaurant with her friend she noticed a car pull in and the man moved. It was whoever he was with. Apparently they didn’t want to park any distance away. NO handicap tag, btw. Jen was so angry that she ordered a “to go” meal of spaghetti and when she left (she knew the car was still there) she dumped it all over his car hood and window. My temper’s not quite THAT bad even on a horrible day. (rolls eyes…)
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The thing that drives me most to distraction is when someone asks me a question, then as soon as I start to answer, they interrupt to tell me a story they’ve told me twenty times before. There’s someone who’s been doing this to me for the past 40 years. The worst of it is, about 3 minutes after I accepted the tenancy on my flat, I learnt that she had moved into a flat whose window faces the entrance to the block. Sometimes, when she sticks her head out of that window, it’s hard to be polite.
That’s it – I can’t think of anything else. BTW Calen, I’m back on Making it Write.
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It’s good to see YOU back, too, girl! I guess we’ve both needed a break, eh? {{{Jane}}}
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I started a new blog, but I didn’t feel at home there, so I’m back, feeling a little too happy to post as often as I used to. Unfortunately inspiration strikes more when I’m miserable… but just this evening I managed to write a post about Laura’s happy event…
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