Are You High-Maintenance? Do you require more attention from the world than everyone else thinks you need or deserve? Are you selfish? Does everything have to be your way? If you answered yes to one or more of the preceding questions, you may be a 'High-Maintenance' person. If you're not sure take the following test. By answering the following twelve questions you can see whether or not you are a 'High-Maintenance' person, and if you know the meaning of the word compromise. (this test was developed from source: seventeen magazine, October 1995) 1. You ordered your cheeseburger cooked medium-rare, but when it comes, it's rare. You say to the waiter, "I don't eat hamburger that's still breathing!" moan and grumble as you stuff that burger in your mouth. smother it in steak sauce and eat it without complaint. 2. It's raining heavily, and you live three blocks from the school. When the time to go home comes, you you put on your $200 dollar jacket and walk home. go to a friends house and watch TV until your parents can pick you up. beg you best friend to drive you home - they have almost half an hour before their volleyball game! 3. It's exam week at your school, and your birthday is on Tuesday. You want a party, so you plan your party for Tuesday night, and expect your friends to stop their studying and come bearing gifts! put off your party until exams are over. have a quick pizza/study party with your friends. 4. It's the night before your big performance in your school's play. Your boyfriend/girlfriend has tickets to an NBA playoff game. You tell them to have a great time. expect them to scalp their tickets and come to your breakthrough performance. pout and hope secretly that they'll show up to the cast party with a dozen roses. 5. Your friends want to rent the Die Hard trilogy...again. You say that Bruce Willis is bald and couldn't act his way out of a paper bag. sit through the action marathon, hoping it will be better this time around. make other plans, but invite your friends over for a STAR WARS run next weekend. 6. It's Valentine's Day, you've been seeing your boyfriend/girlfriend for the past six-months. You wouldn't mind a home cooked, candlelit dinner. expect a piece of jewelry - you've been mentioning that your wrist feels bare. don't expect they'll remember. 7. You're on a blind date at a fancy restaurant. When the waiter comes to take your order, you say, "I'll have what they're having." order the chicken club and ask your date if they want to split some cheese fries. say, "I'll have the nachos - no cheese, peppers, sour cream or olives, and extra salsa on the side." After the waiter puts in your order you change it to the house salad. 8. You get invited to another school's prom. You only have two days to find a dress/suit, you go to the mall the night before and take the first thing you find on the sale rack. borrow an outfit from a friend. buy an expensive outfit and have your mom hem it. 9. The dreaded day arrives - school picture day. You brush your hair for the 18th time and brace for the impact of the photographer's blinding flash. say "cheese" for the dopey photographer, and smile politely for the camera. tell the photographer to take your "good side" and insist they take four extra shots - you're sure you closed your eyes in the first five. 10. It's the first big party of summer vacation. You've had an allergic reaction to something because you've come down with hives. You put cream on your face, wear long sleeves, and hope no one at the party notices your blotches. make your best friend call you later and tell you all about the party. expect your friend to skip the party and come watch a movie with you and your hives. 11. March break is coming, you and your friends have less than two weeks to plan spring break. You let them decide. You'll go along with whatever they choose. tell them you'll go anywhere as long as you can get a tan. let them know that you'll only go some where that has the room service, a white-sand beach within a two-minute walk, and a plentiful supply of the opposite sex. 12. You took your two favorite shirts to the dry cleaner's, and they broke the buttons off both of them. You demand your money back, plus enough cash to cover the cost of the buttons and a tailoring job. If you refuse, you'll write a letter to your local board of trade. ask your mom to sew new buttons on and tell everyone you know not to frequent that dry cleaner. sew the buttons on yourself and start going to another cleaner.