(Should take only 5-7 minutes)

1. You just bought a new car and bring it to a friends' business to show them. You go in and get them and bring them outside to see it. When you get back to your car you notice that the mini-van that was parked next to your car is gone and that you now have a dent and long scratch in your left-rear fender. How do you feel?

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2. You pull up to a restaurant with your brother after going to the movies with him. Your fiancée did not want to go because s/he was feeling sick. Before you exit the car you see your fiancée hugging & kissing his/her old girl/boyfriend. How do you feel?

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3. You’re in the express line in the supermarket, in a hurry, and about to be late for a dinner party at home. Your spouse has been on your case about being late in the past. The person in front of you has at least 5 items over the limit and argues with the clerk to accept her, finally winning her case. Then she argues over a price and the clerk has to go back in the store to check it, and while they discuss that, her daughter comes up with 2 more items to buy. At that point, how do you feel?

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4. You were told that the man from your appliance guarantee company was coming this morning to check the new broken washer you bought. You have many things to do but you have to stay at home this morning or miss him. After two calls, you call again at 12:30 only to find out he's been delayed (and will come some time this afternoon. At that point, how do you feel?

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5. You are living in your new home, with all its new features and fresh wall coverings. Your nosy and irritating neighbor comes to visit and brings her young son. She says she brought things to keep him busy and convinces you it's okay to leave him alone while you two chat. Then you offer her coffee and you chat for a while. It was pleasant enough but she made so many comments on how expensive was the wallpaper and the furniture and the tea serving, even asking the cost repeatedly, that you became uncomfortable. The two of you went to get the boy and found him in your living room. Shocked, you noticed that he had written all over your white furniture and on your foil wallpaper with the permanent markers she had brought without telling you what they were. She takes a look at him, then you, then picks him up and says, "Isn't he creative?", as she heads rapidly for the front door. Now you feel:

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6. You are very excited about going to a special event tonight for which you purchased very expensive, non-refundable tickets. It could be the opera or a football game. Your spouse is late coming home, very slow getting ready, is moving entirely too slowly for your liking, and you know you are now going to miss the beginning, which you hate to do. By now, you are feeling:

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7. It's Sunday and your parents come to visit unannounced, saying that they were just passing through the neighborhood. Although you planned on going out, to be respectful, you stay and visit. Your mother immediately begins to walk through the house and look in your cupboards and closets, commenting continuously on how you should do things differently. Your father sits down on the sofa and after a few minutes he informs you that you have no idea how to supervise your children properly. He then begins to lecture you on how you don't know how to handle your own kids, because you are still just a kid yourself.

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8. You take care of your morning responsibilities then rush to make a doctor's appointment. You get there with three minutes to spare and are told to wait in a very full and noisy waiting room and that the doctor will be with you shortly. An hour later, after just being told for the third time, at the desk, that the doctor will be with you shortly, you overhear one of the other people in the waiting room say, "He must have been delayed at the nineteenth hole again, this is his golf morning, you know." Now, you're up and feel:

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9.You are driving behind a very slow moving car on a canyon road. A traffic jam immediately occurs as a line of cars is forced to slow down behind you. Each time the car ahead comes to an area where he could pull to the side and let you pass, you patiently blink your lights to let him know you would like to pass. He repeatedly refuses to let you (and the long line of cars behind you) go around him and even speeds up once as you try to pass on the right so you can't make it. Then, finally, when you get to the end of the road and pull up next to him, he shouts an obscenity, gives you the finger and speeds off leaving rubber on the road. How do you feel?

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