Are you a patient person?

Question

What situation really "tests" your patience?

Answer 1

I just found what really tries my patience. It is ignorant people who find it amusing to get their laughs at less fortunate peoples expense. Being homeless isn't a joke, but some on Yahoo seem to think it is. I thought this time of the year brought people closer together and brought out compassion. I guess I was wrong.
I am usually very patient, but that is my weakness.

Answer 2

I think I'm a fairly patient person as far as people go. I think everyone is almost born differently with different struggles and hardships, and then some things that just come easy to them. I have my struggles to be a better person that others do not share, and then I have some blessings in behavior. I know people that I see to be far more impatient than I am. This doesn't mean I'm perfect in this area or anything, I just personally think on the scale of impatient to patient I happen to fall towards the patient side.. like a 7 or so.

Answer 3

I am far more patient than I used to be, having kids fixed that. If you get upset with a two year old that can't get his shoes on quickly, then you're just a meanie.

What tests my patience is when the retard in front of me sits through a green light, clueless about their surroundings, while yapping on their cellphone. We have good insurance, what the heck, I might start ramming people LOL!

Answer 4

Patience is a virtue or so I'm told. But the one thing that test my patience are people that don't question authority I'm not saying rebel I'm just saying don't believe everything that is told you and follow blindly. It is ok to step back and evaluate what is going on and if you are not sure about something ask

Answer 5

Hardly ever. I have no patience at all. I have a little more now that I have had a child, but still get so POed when people drive badly, or when I have to wait in line, or when someone stops at the front door of a shopping place and lets their spouse out. I guess I get more annoyed than impatient though.

Answer 6

Most of the time. Driving tests my patience, especially if I'm running late.

Answer 7

i'd say, im AVERAGE.

Situation: I work w/ severely demented elderlies & getting them to do the things I need them to do REALLY tests my patience EVERY SINGLE TIME! (eg, "raise your arm so I could put this sleeve on.." would take them long enough to think about how to do it, and by the time they figure out, they've already forgotten what they were asked to do!! so you would need to repeat EVERYTHING you said and wait for them to do the same thing again! --and the cycle continues.. ) =(

I exactly understand their conditions, that's why Im able to hold back from losing my patience in the work environment. I just take a deep breath whenever i feel im losing it.. which averages to about ~15-20x/day (depending on their "moods") EVERYDAY, for 5days/ week! (go figure!)

Answer 8

I can't suffer stupidity. Did you know that Chinese have got 80 deadly sins and the first is Stupidity?
Anyway I'm used to pranayama, yoga-breathing when I encounter a person who's an idiot, I mean millitant idiocy, because the number of wandering imbeciles increases in thermodinamic progression. And beware, because it's
said that you shall never polemize with an idiot because five minutes later those who contemplate the discussion begin to wonder who's the jerk and who's not. So, ohhhmmmm!

Answer 9

Not really a patient person.

Being made to wait for someone who has no concept that there are other people with lives sitting on idle while they fart around in self indulgence really triggers my ire.

That and athiest in the Religious/spiritual second of YA. What part of Religioius or spiritual do they not understand?

Answer 10

It depends. People that really piss me off are the ones who ask a question without bothering to see if it was answered (this applies to all the internet, not just Y!A), and in general people that just aggravate one of my pet peeves, whatever it may be. Otherwise, I'm patient with you.