Oct 31 2009
THE SOAP BOX: To Blog or Not to blog…Patience is the Word…
I have a problem with patience, I lose it…
Especially since I quit smoking.
It has now been over 60 days since I quit smoking!
My patience has been tried beyond it’s capabilities many times.
The very thing that can drive a person to smoke is the very thing I need to get on with the process of writing…patience.
Patience while driving down the road behind an idiot who stops either at the last minute of the beginning of the yellow light or stops a block before the red light…
Patience in the grocery line when you are in a hurry and the checker is chumming it up with the guy ahead of you, talking about ’sprinklers and her dog’…
Patience with the person who cannot make up their mind looking at a 5 item menu because ‘there are so many choices’…
Patience with slow websites, when every other one out there is fine, ten minutes later after you got bored waiting for it to load up, and started looking at other sites, the page finally opens…
Patience keeping yourself from screaming and pulling out your hair(if you have it) while driving down the road behind someone on their cell phone(in a state where it’s illegal) who is talking on the phone while obviously looking for an address, not paying any attention to the person behind them waving their fist out the window at them…
Patience with the school bus driver that claims you have to be there 5 minutes early to catch her 15 minutes late bus when it’s 40 degrees and raining outside…
Patience with your neighbor in the apartment building who thinks you are abusing your severely learning disabled child just because he is throwing a fit while you are trying to get his clothes on after 10 minutes of fighting with him, so the neighbor decides to call the cops on you, even though the kid is abusing you(that’s ok)….you wonder why it takes so long for the police to get to your door when you call in a robbery? They are too busy busting naked little kids…
Patience with the parking ticket machine that won’t accept your dollar bills and does not give any change if the only decent bill in your wallet is a twenty…
Patience with the guy standing on the corner with a sign, who has more money in his pocket than you, you don’t have a job due to the economy and unemployment found a way to deny your claim, and you are getting desperate, and the guy’s sign says, ‘laid off, no job’ and you seriously consider what he’s doing as an option…
Patience with the one who says there isn’t anything to eat in the house, after looking at a fridge full of food…
Patience…
Patience…
Patience…
It’s either that or smoke!
