are you a patient person?

Yes, I do. In fact, I have a great deal of patience. I have worked with the disabled and that requires a lot of understanding, as well as patience. Because you can't make someone understand something: they have to learn it for themselves. If I got impatient and angry, I wouldn't last long in that environment. The disabled need understanding and caring.

I am also patient when it comes to reading books. I can sit there for over 4 hours reading. I read "A Woman Of Substance" by Barbara Taylor Bradford in over 4 hours, in one sitting. I LOVE reading and have the patience of an angel.

I also don't rush decisions: I have to take time to follow through. I never rush into anything. I like to know what I'm getting into and know it is the right choice.

Yes, but even I can have moments where my patience wears thin.

I think I am the same about having less patience with myself at times, but I have worked on that over the years!

Only if everyone is on time and 3verything is on time. The planner in me. I drive everyone crazy...

I'm a planner, so I tend to have less patience for those who don't plan and don't want to go along with sensible plans. However, I have to cultivate patience or no one will listen to those plans of mine... And yes, that's mostly with my kids.

Depends. If I'm in public I tend to be more patient, cause I don't really want to make a scene but if I 'get there', I'll just roll my eyes, leave and not deal with it. If Im at home, and something/ someone is pissing me off, nope. I will say what I need to say.

Again - because of the people I socialize with - I need a lot of patience. They find it hard to understand things and I need to be calm and understanding to help them.

If I saw red and started getting impatient and angry, I wouldn't last long with those people.

When you are not being patient, what are you doing?

I tend to seethe quietly. I tend to grit my teeth, but I very rarely lose my temper. I do see people step back, so I suspect I have steam coming out my ears, and they think it is just a matter of time before I explode.

Hence the long hair? 

Patience is lasting longer with me these days, since I have the perspective that what's happening in the moment isn't that important - it won't be something that matters long-term.

When I do get impatient, I tend to snap with my words and not give people long to talk. I correct or criticise. And then eventually, feeling hot and bothered literally!

Yesterday I lost it big time in public..

Its been a week of fools, people on phones while driving, a taxi bus blocking my drive but the man was so into his phone that even when I gave him a toot he didnt look up, one guy coming the wrong way down the road at us and another at 6am without lights ( we flashed him and the idiot waved at us!) and then my neighbour coming round every 5 minutes asking for favours, she goes to OH because she knows he is a bit of a soft touch  so I can see her and me having words...( Ive already told her he is ill)

Throughout all of this I've been calm.. But yesterday coming out of the supermarket following the one way circuit there was a car parked in the middle of the road.. He was just sat there.. So I rolled to a stop a bit behind him, then when he didnt move I gave a gentle toot toot  I saw the driver look up and realising there were two women in the car behind him he jumped out pointed at me and waved his arms to indicate that I should pull round him via some of the empty parking bays.. He was holding his phone.. Then he made a face and gesture indicating that I was stupid crazy .. I pulled round him and as I did he swore at me in a degrading way...

I tried to keep calm ..I really did but it just came over me, I hit the brakes got out and balled him out in every foul derogtory male name I could think of. I called him all kinds of stupid inadequate illegitamate person I questioned his parentage and his manhood... He just stood there gobsmacked... Then I heard a giggle and turned to see another guy on a ladder who had witnessed it all enjoying a good laugh...

Not my finest hour but it felt good.

Sometimes we CAN be proud, and happy, even though we don't want to. 

I would have loved to have done that. 

Scary ... Luckily no guns here.