Patience

My father and I have been sitting and waiting for the Verizon internet people to connect our new modem to the internet for almost half an hour now and I can't help but thinking… what could the Verizon employees be doing at this moment? Watching You Tube videos or flirting with the lady sitting in the adjacent cubicle? Well they chose the wrong day to put me on hold and the music selection while I'm waiting sounds like the worst elevator music EVER. Couldn't they put jazz? Salsa? History of the U.S? I mean seriously have SOME creativity Mr. "I selected the worst elevator music ever now everyone will love me!" Sucks for that guy.

Well really the whole point of this is to take a jab at trying to understand impatience. It seems that today, no one is patient. We are so accustomed to have everything in the moment. Who needs to wait for the Sunday newspaper when we can just read it online (not that many people do that; we just look for the most interesting picture and try to find the article that goes along with it)? We expect answers immediately aka texting and cell phones. House phones are disappearing because we want to reach the person wherever they are and then pester them wherever they are at any given time. New cars even have Bluetooth built in so that people can have their important conversations while driving and not have to break the law. We have overnight shipping because waiting a whole day and a half is just unbearable. We have devices called I-pods invented to store our favorite music so we don't have to sit listening to the radio. Laptops have been created so that we may get the internet anywhere and in turn the internet gives us whatever we want at high speed and anything slower will give you a heart attack.

So here we are now… the society of the impatient.