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Welcome to this week’s installment of First Sentence Friday!
I’ve always heard, and have often said, if you want to learn about patience, get a dog. For instance, you can’t (make that CAN’T) rush a pup who’s got to find just the right location to do #2. It’s a fact. Special spots must be sniffed out, positions considered, which sometimes include spinning and this takes place while you’re standing outside in the pouring rain, or freezing cold, or both. Finally, when the deed is done, I’m not sure who’s more relieved. ????♀️
This aside, waiting is not at the top of my list, and a good measure of my short end of patience is with technology. Logging in, accessing, or visiting a site often presents a spinning circle, just to let you know, hey, things are happening. Well, it sends me over the edge if it lasts longer than a few seconds.???? Or, if I have an appointment and wait longer than fifteen minutes or so past the appointment time, I start to get antsy. I check the phone/watch often, and begin to think of the domino effect it might have on the rest of my plans for the day. In today’s world, time management, scheduling, and being efficient are real and important because we have so much going on. Our lives are all about quick, easy and fast.
Think about how it began for us, this instantaneous way of reaching out. At first it was Instant Messaging. Now it’s texting – and we do it ALL THE TIME.
For Joetta McBride waiting to hear about her loved ones, she didn’t have such luxuries. She had to wait, she had no choice. Long-distance communication would take, by today’s standards, FOREVER to reach her, if it reached her at all. Add in the complications of war and it’s hard to fathom the difficulty of facing the days wondering and worrying and not knowing when she might get word of her loved ones.
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CHAPTER 7
Two weeks had passed since Ennis left, and there was no word from him.
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A person who tells a lie continuously and not owning up.
Argh. Yes! Or pretends they don’t know what you’re talking about.
As a mom, and now, a “yaya” (grandma), I consider myself very patient.
I’m retired, however, my career relied on lots of patience and nurturing, too.
(I taught three year olds.)
But the one thing that requires patience, on my part, is the time I wake up until I get that cup of coffee.
My body clock was never calibrated to read “morning person,” so that coffee makes me human, again.
These days, my husband brings me that coffee, as he is retired, too, and well, he just knows what a grumpy cat I could be without it.
Not to mention, he’s just a sweet man who knows my love language.
Got this – Roxene! (thanks for the heads up email)
Oh, and I meant to add, I’m a morning person, and get downright chirpy after the coffee. ????
I was ordering my service for my TV connection….Not only was I on hold but I was transfered to serveral techs….After holding forever and 4 techs later, problem solved, but my blood pressure was up.
That too – it’s the worst! Or that window they give you – four hours and they’re still late. Grrr.
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Good one!!! ????We’re in the same camp. 🙂
I’m most impatient waiting for spring to arrive. I live in Nebraska and I hate winter! I need to see green trees and flowers growing!
OMG – Nebraska. When DOES spring arrive??? It depends here in NC. It seems like every year we have a warm February, and then the final blast of cold which freezes all the new buds that thought it was spring. But in general, our real spring here begins late March, early April.
I am generally a fairly patient person but what makes me crazy is to text a simple yes/no question as in “are you free for lunch tomorrow?” and the person takes hours to respond. The other time I am impatient is waiting for results for medical tests
Ditto and ditto! I can relate – on both accounts.
I get impatient waiting for packages. I think I check the tracking multiple times per day until whatever it is, is delivered! Ha!
This is so true for me too. All these comments are eye-opening, and making me realize I’m more impatient than I thought!