The dangers of hold music.

With recent budget cuts for county's throughout the State of Florida, the Clerk of Courts in Miami-Dade has recently laid off hundreds of employees, changed their phone answering hours to 9a.m. to noon only and switched to an automated system that is likely manned by one person with no education and an Iphone "Angry Birds" addiction who is getting some sick pleasure out of testing my patience.

As I patiently wait on hold to have a problem corrected that is the Clerk's error, I realize that the hold music is making me even more anxious and is bubbling my A.D.D. It starts off ever so soflty with violins and what sounds to be a triangle (like the ones you play in 5th grade music class when all the cool kids take the cool instruments and you are last to pick) and then suddently escalates to triumphant horn and drum sounds that make my teeth clench. OMG, It just disconnected me! Seriously?!?!? ::dials again and waits 20 minutes::

Oh, there is nothing that they can do....I have to call back in two days. wah-wah.

This brings me to research patience and figure out if they sell it on E-bay. Nope. Dang! Instead, here is what I do find:

Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche argued that "being able to wait is so hard that the greatest poets did not disdain to make the inability to wait the theme of their poetry." He notes that "Passion will not wait", and gives the example of cases of duels, in which the "advising friends have to determine whether the parties involved might be able to wait a while longer. If they cannot, then a duel is reasonable [because]...to wait would be to continue suffering the horrible torture of offended honor...".

In lamens terms....this tells me that a duel is in order and reasonable!!!! Yay! I needed a reason today to put on my ninja suit and karate chop someone in the shin. Hi-Ya!