Does anyone else have trouble waiting?

[Butterfly88]

I'm having more trouble waiting for things lately and it is becoming problematic. Anyone else feel like this? Any advice?

 

[Rayner]

Could you describe what is about waiting for that gives you trouble?

I'm having more trouble waiting for things lately and it is becoming problematic. Anyone else feel like this? Any advice?

 

[Judge]

Yes, when IMO it shouldn't have to occur. I can get quite anxious over waiting for something that shouldn't normally take so long. Especially in retail checkout lines when I'm holding something that is melting.

But other times when I'm well aware of a potentially longer timeline being involved, it's much easier to deal with. Scenarios that I already anticipate waiting for extended times.

 

[garnetflower13]

It depends upon what I am waiting for. I have learned that when placed on long hold times on the telephone, I can play video games while waiting. Standing in lines are not so easy to deal with, due to health issues. I also dislike waiting on a repair person when they give a broad range of time, like from 8:00 in the morning until 8 pm. That makes me so anxious!

 

[Misery]

Oh yes, definitely problems with waiting here too.

I simply have no patience. At all. I'm relatively certain I've achieved a state of anti-patience.

It doesnt matter just what it is, I dont want to wait for it. I have trouble even dealing with microwaving something for 60 seconds. To me, that's 61 seconds too long.

I'm just glad I'm not in school anymore. That was when it was at it's worst. Every single day, many hours of waiting for the day's torment to end.... *shudder*.

 

[tree]

I'm having more trouble waiting for things lately and it is becoming problematic. Anyone else feel like this? Any advice?

Waiting for what?

If it's waiting until the bathroom is free and I can pee,
that's one thing. In fact, I wouldn't have to wait for
that. I could go out back behind a tree.

If it's waiting on the phone, that's not really a problem
either. I can get in some steps for the day on my
pedometer, waiting on hold.

Waiting in line is ok, assuming there is actually progress
being made/orders being processed. If I feel weak/faint/
or otherwise poorly, then I could go sit down.

What sort of 'things' did you have in mind?
Waiting for a future which will be better than the present?
Waiting for other people to do something?
Waiting for a change in yourself?
What are you waiting for?

 

[Mia]

My frustrations regarding waiting are mainly concerned with how long I think or expect I should wait. If I'm the only one waiting for example, at the pharmacy.

It seems that my expectations that the pharmacist should stop talking to a friend, and do her job which consists of her sticking a label on an already commercially made preparation, then bite me, as I'm expecting too much apparently

Waiting for flights to leave at the airport, which is something I've done quite a bit over the years. As the flights become delayed, by one or two or three hours, with no explanation. Apparently I'm not supposed to become annoyed or upset by this as if it's a matter of course. Expect to wait is the mantra, when I've traveled in the past and planes and trains and buses left exactly as scheduled, and were rarely delayed.

In fact even television programs and movies that are scheduled used to start exactly at the time indicated, which I could count on. Now, they show commercials at the intended time so they have an audience. Frustrating.

 

[garnetflower13]

I have trouble with taking people literally when they say they will do something in a time frame like fifteen minutes and then they don't do it. I find that I get really frustrated with them and then they are puzzled as to why. I have an Aunt who always promises to call me back if I have reached her at an inconvenient time but rarely does. I have learned to expect her call when it actually happens. I also hate it when a customer service person says something like, "You will receive it in seven to ten busyness days." Is it seven or ten, and why the freak does it take so long?

 

[umbrellabeach]

I find myself constantly waiting for things. Days off, Amazon packages, trips to places I really want to go... always waiting. This past winter we waited for months to get out of our dangerously wired rented house and into a safe one we bought, and that was awful because not being able to use major appliances made the house cold, and the bank kept delaying the closing for stupid reasons such as lack of a guard rail in the backyard. It was one of the most agonizing waits of my life. I wanted to have my own space with warmth and privacy again (my old bedroom was too cold without my space heater), but the housing company or whatever thought it was more important to keep us from falling two feet down in the yard and thus cracking our skulls and dying on the spot.

I'm not sure if all this waiting has made me more patient, because I do it so much, or less because I hate it so much. But like Judge, I'm more impatient when something shouldn't take as long as it's taking.

 

[Astroganga]

Yes I am the same, and I hate waiting on hold on the phone because by the time my call is answered I am a nervous wreck.

 

[Butterfly88]

It's mostly waiting in line at stores I guess. I guess it gives me trouble because I worry when I wait. Plus I get antsy and fear people will touch me or ask me a question I'm not prepared to answer. It's hard enough completing a transaction at a store, if I have to wait on top of it seems like too much.

 

[trvp3zoid]

It's mostly waiting in line at stores I guess. I guess it gives me trouble because I worry when I wait. Plus I get antsy and fear people will touch me or ask me a question I'm not prepared to answer. It's hard enough completing a transaction at a store, if I have to wait on top of it seems like too much.

Yes totally, I get very irritated and start becoming the guy that whispers "WTF" and "Jesus H Christ" and all that under my breath. I'm kind of irritable sometimes, I have to start reminding myself to chillax.