Patience Test

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1. When waiting for important results, do you...

Check constantly, and curse out the phone/computer/mail man

You wait until you are notified your results are ready

Check often and get anxious the longer you have to wait

Wait for a long as it takes

2. Do you stop and help people even if you're late?

Never

Always

Sometimes

Why shouldn't I?

3. How are you with kids?

You buy into their imaginary friends and stories and calmly correct them whenever they make a mess

Their messes annoy you to no end and you correct them on the smallest things

You feign interest in their stories and try to correct them calmly when they annoy you

I am super good with them

4. When driving behind a slow person, you most likely...

Stay behind them, chill out and listen to music

Attempt to get around the person, but not like it's an emergency

Tailgate, switch lanes and speed like a fire truck with its sirens on

Get angry and yell at them

5. When it comes to technology and old people, how is your patience?

You are more than willing to help, and show them step by step

You don't want to help but you attempt to anyways

You can't wait to show them what to do so you snatch it from them and do it yourself.

Sit with them as long as it take and help them every step of the way

6. How long are you willing to wait for your friend before going to the movies?

None! I will not wait

30 mins max

10 minutes

I am okay with missing the movie

7. How long are you willing to wait for a seat at a popular restaurant?

I will never wait!

1 hour max

Maybe half and hour

I'll wait as long as I can

8. How long would you be willing to wait for a free pizza?

I will not wait

An hour

Half an hour

As long as it takes. Free pizza is always good

9. Your favourite celebrity is in the area! How long are you willing to wait to meet them personally

Why should I wait?

An hour max!

Half and hour

As long as it takes

10. You're in a line at the bank. How long are you willing to wait in line for your turn?

I am not waiting at the line

An hour

10 minutes

As long as it takes

11. If "we must learn to walk before we can run", what must we learn to do before we can write?

Run

Crawl

Read

12. Your waiting in line to get lunch and there is more than 10 people in line what do you do?

Leave and go to another restaurant

Wait patiently

Cut in line

Yell at people to hurry up

13. A colleague is making slow progress on a deadline you’re working on together. You:

Take on as much of their share of the work as possible

Focus on other things

Remind them of the impending deadline three times a day

Put your foot down

14. You encounter a problem with a project you’re working on. You:

Delegate the task, just this once

Ask for advice from your team

Take a break and come back when you’re feeling in the mood to tackle it

Move on to another project

15. The upside of technology is:

To always be connected to others

Being able to access information instantly

To provide solutions to life’s problems

The ability to do it all yourself