Shopper's Rage

I find that I'm not a very patient person sometimes. For example, when waiting in lines, I will look around for a shorter line so that I can leave quicker. However, having banking experience, I know that just as soon as I move to a shorter line, there will be a reason that the new line becomes slow, and the line I would have moved from is now checking out the person that was behind me! So, most of the time, I wait. (I hate it when I am the cause of the waiting.)

I also am not patient when I am walking through a store and people decide to stop right in front of me to chat with someone else. If I do that, I always try to move my cart or myself to the very edge of the space so that people can get through. I do not find that everyone else uses this courtesy. People block aisles and don't even try to move out of the way. Or people that are walking slower than I am will not scoot aside, they just keep up a slow pace until I can find an opening to get around them. AARRGH! I really don't know why this bugs me so much, but it does. Maybe God is trying to teach me patience, but I am not allowing it?...Hmm...

Maybe I have "shopper's rage"?

Doctors

Why must it take so long when a person goes to the doctor? First, you wait in the waiting room, reading old magazines until you tire of that. You look around at everything possible in the room: pictures, plants, posted notices from the doctor, the decor. After the nurse FINALLY calls your name, you end up telling her your issues, get your blood pressure checked and get weighed (possibly). After she leaves the room, you wait...again. You begin the "looking around" process all over again, because, after all, it is a different room. You try to enjoy the music, but really, everything is driving you crazy at this point! Where is that doctor? You think to yourself, "OK, I'll grab one of these magazines just to pass some time." ...You finish it...WHERE IS THE DOCTOR? Finally, the doctor comes in, and now you have forgotten why you were even there. (OK, maybe not)

Shouldn't doctors just schedule patients at the real pace that they generally work instead of piling us up and having us wait so long? AARRGGHH!

And don't get me started on them not calling you back. If you have an issue, you call, leave a message, and they tell you they'll let the doctor know and get back with you. REALLY? Because I never hear back. Someone isn't being honest. Now I'm told I can go on-line and send an e-mail, and he will receive it. I'll have to try that next time I'm in a situation where I need answers.

Sorry, I just went to the doctor yesterday...