Poll: Americans like instant gratification

AP / Yahoo ^ | 5/28/06 | Calvin Woodward

[ProtectOurFreedom]

We'll make this quick. We know you're busy. An Associated Press poll has found an impatient nation. To get to the point without further ado, it's a nation that gets antsy after five minutes on hold on the phone and 15 minutes max in a line. So say people in the survey.

The Department of Motor Vehicles, the U.S. version of the old Soviet bread line, is among the top spots where Americans hate to wait. But grocery stores are the worst.

Almost one in four in the AP-Ipsos poll picked the grocery checkout as the line where their patience is most likely to melt like the ice cream turning to goo in their cart.

[MNJohnnie]

Only one item you missed. The Left always wants YOU to sacrifice for THEIR emotional gratification. YOU pay more taxes so we can give them out to "the poor" and feel morally superior because we made YOU give THEM YOUR money. Leftists in their own lives are some of the most self absorbed, narcissistic NON sacrificers in the world. One of the reason they hate the Military. The Military shows REAL commitment and sacrifice, the sort your average Leftist like to pretend they have.

[lilylangtree]

Who wouldn't like instant gratification?

[SaveTheChief]

Who said that? I want to know NOW!

[Nabber]

just wanted you to know that someone got it.

been chuckling for quite a few minutes...

[clintonh8r]

Where's Captain Obvious?

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

LOL! We live in a microwave world, we want it now, and that's not even fast enough. (hint: that's why credit card companies are worth billions)

[Thumper1960]

Well, we do................'cept in *private* matters, doncha know!

;->

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

What is this? The Undead Thread? Hurry up and finish posting so I can read the whole thing and move on!

;o)

[expatguy]

BLEH!!

I don't have time to read this entire thread - can someone summarize it for me please?

[Drew68]

John Vivian, 72, of Lantana, Fla., can wait "hours" on hold on the phone. "I spent 23 years in the military and if you spent 23 years in the military, you don't lose your patience."

Haha! Exactly. The Navy has definitely given me the ability to tolerate long lines. On an aircraft carrier, I sometimes spend 45 minutes in line for chow. Beats work. And then there's the line for the smokepit after it reopens from a General Quarters drill. Lots of wasted manhours standing in that one!

Anyways, the rest of the world must be asking, "What's a line?" After traveling to many countries I have come to the conclusion that a orderly queue is a uniquely American concept. Everywhere else in the world, it seems to be "Mob Rule" particularly in the former Soviet Union.

[sergeantdave]

At one time America had milk truck businesses that would deliver fresh milk, eggs and orange juice to your "milk chute" at home. No waiting in line. If that service came back, I'd subscribe.

[Sam Cree]

Yep, Mrs. Clinton was going on about sacrifice just last week, the bitch.

[elmer fudd]

If I'm paying for something why should I have to wait?

[clyde asbury]

Carrie Fisher:
Instant gratification takes too long.

[virginiaspook]

What really errkks me is that I have to wait for popcorn to pop !

Dang! Those microwaves are just too slow!

[Old Seadog]

My wife is always complaining about my instant gratification.

[VOA]

Poll: Americans like instant gratification

So much for the sociologists that say the USA is a nation of liars...

[brytlea]

It's waste when you don't have time to waste typing an "e".
susie

[TASMANIANRED]

There is a huge difference in wanting instant gratification on everything and wanting people in Public Service industries to be effecient.

[CyberAnt]

Wow! These people are just figuring this out ..??

I've said for years, my children are part of the "instant generation" - they had instant food in the microwave, instant entertainment from the TV, instant gratification - sleeping with a new partner every night .. voila .. the "instant generation".

Yes, it has spawned a "right now" type of attitude. And .. the problem comes from the slow moving over-weight govt. No wonder there are so many drugs needed for anxiety.