Take this test if you might be one of the those people who wish that they have the power of repetition - the ability to change things if you do something repeatedly enough.
1. Do you ever find yourself pressing the elevator button once too many to "speed up" the arrival of the elevator?
2. Do you find yourself switching an appliance on and off more than three times if it doesnt work the first time you try?
3. Do you find yourself clicking a web hyperlink more than once to speed up the loading time?
4. How many times do you depress the hang-up button of a landline telephone?
5. Do you like to use your palms or fists to bang the side of any appliance that won't start up?
6. When you press the C/AC button of a calculator, do you do it repeatedly?
7. Do you press the backspace more than the number of characters you're trying to erase when trying to completely erase input in a text box?
8. When your computer hangs up, do you find yourself pressing keys repeatedly, even though you know they won't really do anything to fix the problem?
If you answered yes to many of these questions, you may be one of those people.
You may be suffering from a certain flavour of the Obsessive Compulsive disorder - a neurotic's problem. It's nothing big. It basically means your an idiot of the biological kind, and that society's used to people like you.
And you need a doctor.
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Number 3 works for sites that have ads that change for every loading coz some ads load longer than others and most sites naturally load the ads before the contents. When I find that a page hasn't loaded yet after the normal loading period, I usually reclick the link.
Also, number 8 may be done to test if a computer truly hung up or is just waiting for a process to complete. Coz if it's just waiting for a process, pressing keys repeatedly would for some computers cause beeping. Although, with the advent of Win XP, I haven't encountered a process yet that can't be overriden by the "end of the world spell", ctrl-alt-del.
Although to be honest, sometimes it's just plain old "losing ones head coz of dwindling amount of patience"
You cant answer question number 4 with a yes or no.
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