Putting Up with People
Ever blow your top with infuriating individuals? Here's how to bear with and yes, even love, those irritating people.
- Published in the May | June 1986 issue
- Written by Marilyn Anderes
Someone once said: "You can do anything if you have patience. You can carry water in a sieve—if you wait until it freezes."When are you tempted to lose your patience? How do you respond to crabby sales clerks, whining children, or rude drivers? Does putting up with people's quirks ever seem as impossible, as carrying water in a sieve?Face it.
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