What's your patience threshold?

Post menopause, my patience threshold is zero.

I'm pretty placid and patient ........... I have to be in my job. )

However, as I don't like being late for appointments (I'm always early) my patience would often be tested when the ex and I went out for meals with good friends of ours. They would tell us that the restaurant was booked for 7.30 p.m. and he'd be faffing around doing things, like polishing his shoes or deciding which tie to wear, when we should have been en route to pick them up. Our friends and I eventually came up with a sneaky plan. We started telling him that the table was booked earlier than it actually was and so we got there on time from then on .................. and he still doesn't know to this day.

Sadly, in general, I am not a very patient person at all. I wish I was but I just am not.  If I go out to eat and there is a wait, forget it,- I'm out of there. If I have to wait too long for my check at a restaurant or my food I will complain (unless I happen to be with someone that I am having a really good time with.) I get really agitated when lines are long at grocery stores or banks and start giving dirty looks and sighs to the workers. I just can't stand it! If the store looks too busy, I walk out. I'm not fighting crowds and if I stand in a long line, I will not be happy. At work, I multi-task quickly and efficiently. If I am at the mall with a good friend of mine, she gets annoyed because I rush her out of there, because she is slow moving with her purchases and patient. So I shop alone. I bring no friends with me. They just can't move quick enough for me. After I have made my purchases I have no patience to stand around and wait for someone else to shop and browse.