Patience

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Do you have it?

I try to be patient. I used to have a very short fuse, but I've learned to relax a bit as I've gotten older. Tell myself "it's only a few minutes, relax, there's no emergency, life's too short to be stressed with things out of your control..." But I still have no patience for:

*People driving under the speed limit in the left/fast/passing lane; or people who cut you off in traffic, then proceed to drive really slowly.

*People in the grocery checkout line who take too long by arguing, or asking employees to go back & get something for them that they forgot, when there are lots of people waiting in line behind them.

The other day, a woman raced & beat me to the checkout. I had 3 items, she had about 10. I was calm, then I noticed that she waited until all of her items were scanned & bagged to pull out her shoppers card. AFTER that she decides to write a check, smiles at the cashier & says "I guess I could have had this partially written out before I came." I swear I almost shot her.