Selective Patience

I will wait 10 minutes in a huge line to get Tim Hortons and not think twice (just did it this morning), but if I have to wait more than 5 minutes at the ATM I am livid...and don't tell me its a reward thing...I get coffee at one place, but I get money at the other...so I can buy coffee and other things (beer). But we have selective patience it would seem...I have no patience for someone going 5 km/h under the speed limit, and in reality they are only making me about 1 minute later to get where I am going....and I am going to work so they are actually doing me a favor! (Just kidding, I love my job...now), but I will wait for 10 minutes at the water slide with my daughter and not an errant word would spout from my mouth.

So why are we these parodoxial creatures when it comes to waiting....in Atlantic Canada our patience is tested less...I have been in large cities where sitting on a highway not moving in your car for 20 minutes is consider normal; that would be a huge pile up here in rural Canada (hell in Rio you just assume that you will sit idle for 2 minutes for ever 2 minutes of moving; which is why when they move, they REALLY move!). I used to live 20 minutes from the "downtown" of the town I live in, and all my friends thought I was crazy for commuting 15-20 minutes everyday...but that kind of commute in many places in world would be considered great. (BTW I now live 2 minutes from my office...so thats awesome!) So maybe its more a matter of relative patience (not talking about having patience with the mom-in-law), as in your patience level is relative to where you are, and what you expect.

Patience relative to location...I have been to these large cities and experienced the patience demands without freaking out...but I still get frustrated if I sit idle for 2 minutes here at home....and my travel mates are the same.

So I am struggling to come to a point...so here it is; I hate slow drivers...get off the flippin cell phone, or pay attention to the speed limits...if it changes from 50 to 80, follow suit....and if you aren't comfortable driving 110km/hr on the highway, get off the bleeding highway! Take some other road....I need to get to Tim Horton's before the line gets too long!

and he leaves the soapbox for the next whiner....