How fast are you? Do slow people irritate you?

Well with me it’s like this: I like to see what there is to be seen in the shops, or I feel I might be missing out and so I take as long as it takes, because I have nothing to rush for.
Generally if I haven’t got the time to do something I don’t bother unless it is urgent or absolutely vital.
However, best get out my way if I am on a mission eg floors to vacuum or mop, beds to strip and remake or pots to wash and a meal to prep 🌪️

I used to be very speedy , although i could always slow down to a very very slow oace when working with certain people. Nowadys my thinking and my pace are slowing, but when I'm focussed on a task my speed picks up somewhat.
I’m in no rush nowadays, and I’m glad of it.

I used to do everything at speed - I worked, did things around the house, did Zumba 4 times a week, but then had a stroke 17 months ago and although I'm 95% recovered, I simply cannot do anything quickly now. People who rush about now irritate me

I've always been fast. I walked fast, was always on the go, read fast, typed fast etc. but am not able to do it any more.

I usually speed along with most things but my health problems have slowed me down a bit. The other thing I do and don't know if anyone else does, I think of things and am convinced I've told my husband when it's still in my head. It has caused a few disagreements.

The tortoise and the hare comes to mind

I am 5’2” sometimes I am speedy other times not so.

I alternate between wandering and taking in all around and being the proverbial pocket rocket

I can whip round a supermarket in no time, in a favourite department store, garden centre or beach front paseo I am a tortoise.

Another tortoise here...but a speedy rabbit inside my head, lol.🐌🐇

I seem to be with the men folk on here .... 🤣

Oreo

Urmstongran I’ve never thought that 5’7” is particularly tall.😄
I have a friend and neighbour who’s tall, she’s 5’11”.

I must have a lot of short friends Oreo! I always feel ‘tall’.
😁

Another speedy one here. Dh is slow! 😤.
Last week we decided to varnish the front door. I got everything out of the shed, - cloths, varnish, floor protectors etc. He decided to go to the shed for a paintbrush.
By the time he got back to me, and then went to the loo, I had finished the door. 🤔

My DH takes 4 times as long as everyone else to do things…..drives me to,distraction! Also leaves everything to the very last minute. I call him last minute.com

I do all I have to do as soon as it needs doing…so that the rest of the day is mine and tomorrow is a clean sheet.

Not as fast as I used to be but still pretty efficient at getting from A to B.
People who weave around and dawdle in the middle of supermarket aisles drive me to distraction, otherwise I'm pretty patient (I think!).

I am speedy. I am driven to distraction by the speed with which DH loads the dishwasher.

I am quite quick to start with, whether walking or any other activity, but these days I need to take lots of breaks to pace myself. Maybe I am lazy. Trouble is, I get on Forums or browsing on the internet and then nothing gets done.

Often my brain is ahead of my body.

Oh, that does happen to me frequently, MerylStreep. I'm thinking of what I have to do next and whoops 😲

I am trying to be more mindful now 😃

Urmstongran I’ve never thought that 5’7” is particularly tall.😄
I have a friend and neighbour who’s tall, she’s 5’11”.

My partner jokes when I start galloping, he says i thought we were going there together
I have another problem with my busy mind. Often my brain is ahead of my body.
It caught me out a while ago. My brain had turned to do something but my body was a second behind so I trod on my own foot, went flying and broke a toe 😂

That’s lovely Rosie51 I’ll stand and stare anytime if I can.😃
Nobody annoys me if they’re being slow, as they don’t do it on purpose, but friends who are always late cos they’re disorganised annoy me.

lilypollen

I'm Speedy Gonzales and can't stand dawdlers - not against anyone who can't move fast. If I were going out tomorrow, I would have everything ready to go tonight, DH on the other hand?

Yes, but that's being organised, lilypollen

ExDancer

Well well!
May I ask your age Sago?
When you're 84 and arthritis has set in, do you still expect to be doing everything 'at speed'?
If so - what speed?

I haven't got to 84 yet but my knees are about 90.

When I think what I used to achieve in the mornings I feel astonished. I was always busy because there was so much to do.

However, if you rush through life you may miss a lot!


Whitewavemark2 Sat 28-Jan-23 17:54:24
I operate at my speed.
Other people operate at theirs
Waste of time being irritated

Absolutely!

Thank goodness we're not all the same.

I'm quite slow/methodical, my husband is quite fast/very precise. That works for us. I really don't care to speed of others.

I used to zoom about all over the place but these days I can barely stand let alone move at speed. That said I can't stand dawdlers who dither about in a world of their own.

My sister and I row constantly when we are out because I'm always away ahead of her. She just danders along, slow as a snail and it winds me up. In shops she's up and down every aisle and I'm normally through the till and sitting in the car waiting an age on her.

I don’t mind people being slow. It’s when they dither about in front of me I get irritated. This way, that way. Make up your mind!