Response Required

Good.Mess! It is possible that the basis for the following rant is skewed due to the fact that I exist in a constant state of "go."  Nevertheless, I will rant anyway. Most people nowadays work on a system of instantaneous information and response. If you would like to see the newest music video from that super hot band you're obsessed with, you don't have to watch hours of MTV hoping it will come on. You go to youtube and watch it instantly. Declining an invitation doesn't even require direct contact anymore, you can just click "No" and BAM! awkwardness averted. E-mail isn't fast enough, we have to have IM programs, the cycle continues...

Believe it or not, I am not in opposition to these new-fangled-technologies. I absolutely love them. However, I have created an irreconcilable problem for myself. I operate under the exceptionally incorrect assumption that everyone else operates with the same response time that I do.  I am slowly learning from my mistake and realizing that patience is good, but nagging is better. When I have a question and reach out to someone for an answer, if I don't get a response I usually wait, and wait, and wait. This has really never produced good results for me. So, in the light of helping others I think I may have to change tactics.

I think I would prefer this as a response:
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Dear Smurphtastic,

You are annoying me to death. I am working on your request please get your underwear out of a wad and wait a moment so I can assemble your response. Please reference the attached picture as an accurate depiction of how I imagine you.



Thank you,

Annoyed Person
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I would probably laugh at that response, but honestly at least it is a form of communication. I would much rather be told to hold my horses than to open an inbox to the sound of crickets. I need to invent a mailbox that plays the sound of crickets when you open it and it is empty. Dibs on the patent, it's officially mine!!

From the message above I got two things:
1. I am not talking to the infinite depths of space and
2. There is a response happening, I don't have to wonder if I'm waiting on hope or action. (Action is always preferred.)

So readers, I ask you, do you expect unrealistic responses from people? How do you manage wondering if anything is happening, against worrying that you are annoying the crap out of people? Hence the magic creation of the "Got it" e-mail. C'est la vie I suppose, perhaps I will have grown up expectations one of these days :)

I hope you guys have a very productive and responsive week, hugs and kisses,

Mama Smurphtastic