A tour bus driver is driving with a bus full of seniors down a highway
when he is tapped on his shoulder by a little old lady.

She offers him a handful of peanuts, which he gratefully munches up.
After about 15 minutes, she taps him on his shoulder again and she hands
him another handful of peanuts.

She repeats this gesture about five more times. When she is about to
hand him another batch again he asks the little old lady why they don't
eat the peanuts themselves.

"We can't chew them because we've no teeth", she replied.

The puzzled driver asks, "Why do you buy them then?"

The old lady replied, "We just love the chocolate around them."

It pays to be careful around old people.

Perhaps you can relate. One man was to meet his wife downtown and spend
some time shopping with her. He waited patiently for 15 minutes.

Then he waited impatiently for 15 minutes more.

After that, he became angry. Seeing one of those photograph booths
nearby (the kind that accepts coins into a slot and takes four shots while
you pose on a small bench), he had an idea. He assumed the most
ferocious expression he could manage, which wasn't difficult under the
circumstances, and in a few moments he was holding four small prints that
shocked even him!

He wrote his wife's name on the back of the photographs and handed them
to a clerk behind the desk. "If you see a small, dark lady with brown
eyes and an apologetic expression, apparently looking for someone, would
you please give her this?" he said.

He then returned to his office content that, if a picture is worth a
thousand words, then four photos must be a full-blown lecture!

His wife saved those pictures. She carries them in her purse now. Shows
them to anyone who asks if she is married...

How are you with patience? One person calls it "wait-training." It
seems that there is always something we are waiting for. We wait on traffic
and we wait in lines. We wait to hear about a new job. We wait to
complete school or to retire. We wait to grow up or for maturity in a child.
We wait for a decision to be made. We wait for someone to change his or
her mind.

Patience is an essential quality of a happy life. After all, some
things are worth waiting for. Every day presents plenty of opportunities for
wait training.

We can resent waiting, accept it or even get good at it! But one thing
is certain - we cannot avoid it. How is your wait training coming
along?