Five on Friday

Hurry Up and Wait
By criminal

According to a recent poll we're an impatient society. [I tried the link to CNN--but it's dead.] But what about you?

1. Where does your patience suffer the most?
I'm most impatient with the people I know well: family and coworkers. Bad Cat!

2. How long will you wait in a check out line before abandoning your purchases?
Dependent on what I'm buying, how much I'm spending, how desperately I need whatever it is. Groceries, I won't wait long; I now check myself out most times at our local store. The big trips I wait in line, like a sheep. {baaa} However, if I'm spending a ton of money and getting shitty service, I leave. I can buy that TV or printer or whatever elsewhere.

3. What is your limit for phone hold times?
I'm extremely twitchy after 5 minutes. I never wait more than 10 minutes. Ever.
This is kind of dependent on whether I'm on a speaker phone, however. If I can work on stuff while I wait, hands-free, it's less annoying.

4. If they took the same amount of time and got you to the exact same place, would you rather take a congested highway or slow, winding back roads?
Back roads. Hands-down no contest.

5. Have you ever been rude to a fellow customer or a store employee because you've had to wait in line? Have you been the recipient of such behavoir? How do you handle it?
Only if I'm treated rudely first...oh, but having to wait is rudeness in most cases. I'm rarely rude to other customers: why bother? But yeah, there was this time at VS when I wanted to put an employee's head through a mirror....