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Poll: Americans like instant gratification
AP / Yahoo ^
| 5/28/06
| Calvin Woodward
Posted on 05/28/2006 8:32:02 AM PDT by 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.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: duh; impatience; speed
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To: Sam Cree
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.
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posted on
05/28/2006 8:51:23 AM PDT
by
MNJohnnie
(The is no right to commit Treason in the 1st Amendment .)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Who wouldn't like instant gratification?
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Who said that? I want to know NOW!
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posted on
05/28/2006 9:11:50 AM PDT
by
SaveTheChief
("This one goes to eleven.")
To: dfwgator
just wanted you to know that someone got it.
been chuckling for quite a few minutes...
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posted on
05/28/2006 9:27:05 AM PDT
by
Nabber
To: se_ohio_young_conservative
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)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Well, we do................'cept in *private* matters, doncha know!
;->
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posted on
05/28/2006 9:35:15 AM PDT
by
Thumper1960
(Politicians are like diapers. They need changed often, and for the same reasons.)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
What is this? The Undead Thread? Hurry up and finish posting so I can read the whole thing and move on! ;o)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
BLEH!!
I don't have time to read this entire thread - can someone summarize it for me please?
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posted on
05/28/2006 9:36:11 AM PDT
by
expatguy
(http://laotze.blogspot.com/)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
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.
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posted on
05/28/2006 9:41:57 AM PDT
by
Drew68
To: ProtectOurFreedom
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.
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posted on
05/28/2006 9:46:10 AM PDT
by
sergeantdave
(And though getting up in the world attracts attention, it does not establish solid worth.)
To: wizardoz; MNJohnnie
Yep, Mrs. Clinton was going on about sacrifice just last week, the bitch.
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posted on
05/28/2006 9:46:52 AM PDT
by
Sam Cree
(Delicacy, precision, force)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
If I'm paying for something why should I have to wait?
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Carrie Fisher:
Instant gratification takes too long.
To: se_ohio_young_conservative
What really errkks me is that I have to wait for popcorn to pop !
Dang! Those microwaves are just too slow!
To: ProtectOurFreedom
My wife is always complaining about my instant gratification.
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posted on
05/28/2006 10:24:37 AM PDT
by
Old Seadog
(Inside every old person is a young person saying "WTF happened?".)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Poll: Americans like instant gratification
So much for the sociologists that say the USA is a nation of liars...
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posted on
05/28/2006 10:31:05 AM PDT
by
VOA
To: ProtectOurFreedom
It's waste when you don't have time to waste typing an "e".
susie
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posted on
05/28/2006 10:47:26 AM PDT
by
brytlea
(amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
To: dakine
There is a huge difference in wanting instant gratification on everything and wanting people in Public Service industries to be effecient.
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posted on
05/28/2006 11:04:11 AM PDT
by
TASMANIANRED
(The Internet is the samizdat of liberty..)
To: ProtectOurFreedom; All
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.
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posted on
05/28/2006 12:12:09 PM PDT
by
CyberAnt
(Drive-by Media: Fake news, fake documents, fake polls)
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