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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: ProtectOurFreedom

Life in the liberal zoo.

41 posted on 05/28/2006 12:59:43 PM PDT by stinkerpot65
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