I am one of those old q tip woman who drive you nuts by driving the speed limit and you cannot pass me.
I still pass you. One way or another, I'm getting around you.
Can one be expected to tolerate loud music late at night 7 nights a week---unless you live over a gay bar in the city.
No.
Can we tolerate a neighbors dog that barks 24/7 with no let up.
Threaten to shoot said dog, owner will shut them up. First hand experience. It's quiet here now.
Could you tolerate sex education for your 5 year old daughter that comes home telling you they have learned about the male penis and asks if she can see yours ?
No. I'd march right down to that school and give them a piece of my mind and pull my daughter out of that school immediately.
With all of that said, I still tolerate a lot of crap. I just have very little patience.
But this is ONE thing I cannot tolerate.
Did you know you don't need to put a period at the end of a question and then follow it up with a question mark? All you need is the question mark.

I have no idea why I do that punctuation thingies.?
I think from my generation of Children are to be seen and not heard, Lady's don't do --whatever, I have just about had it with all this life long trying to fit into a mold that others insist I live by.
I remember my shock when a class mate [we were freshman in High School] stated on carear day that she wanted to become a DOCTOR.
Holy Crap, she is a girl, Woman become Nurses, office workers, book keepers , teachers but that field is a MANS job.
7 or so years later I was sent for a prehire physical and that Doctor was my class mates grandmother. The very first female Doctor I ever knew of.
Lots of firsts for me, the first female Cop, Lawyer, Judge, I had never been told that in WW2 woman piloted planes, built ships of war, sure we heard of Rose the riveter but only in passing.
Here I am today getting pissed at myself for the lost opportunities I missed to live a life as nothing but a baby machine and military wife, my JOB was to support my Hubby's carear.
Tolerate others who have their best interests at heart, NOT today Baby. I am to damn old to give a rats ass what others think, I am too old to sit back and allow life around me to go to hell when a minority of people tell me I must understand and accept their life style as it infringes on mine.
Example, say new neighbors move in next door and I find a family member is on the sex crime list for praying on little kids. What the freak am I to do when the grandbabys want to play in my back yard and the person-Monster- comes out on their back deck to watch them. every time they come to visit. I can in this State carry open so I sit on my deck watching the kids and the Monster and next thing I know the cops show up as the Monsters family called in that I was harassing them.
I have had it with the few people with problems that effect the majority to have the rights to make us cowtow and understand them and change ourlife style to tolerate their behavior.
I am cranky today and my 3 dogs just threw up. Must be the pet food contaminated again. What do you think.?????