Do You Have Too Much Attitude? Is your attitude making it hard for your friends to tolerate you? This quiz will help determine if your attitude is doing more harm than good. (this test was developed from source: seventeen magazine, November 1996) 1. It's lunch time in your school cafeteria. Some guy that you've never met before sits down at your lunch table and starts unpacking his STAR TREK lunch box. You ask, "Hey, Mr. Spock? Do you have a reservation?" politely introduce yourself and your friends, then roll your eyes and make fun of him when he's not looking. say hi and offer him some Oreos. 2. Your cash flow is running dangerously low, so you out of desperation get a job at McDonalds. One day your boss asks you to mop the floor. You respond, "Me?! You've got to be kidding! These delicate hands weren't meant to mop!" cringe, but say with a smile, "Sure, please show me how to mop." agree to the chore, but while you're doing it lament over their disrespect of your delicate genius. 3. You favorite place to shop for clothes is your best-friend's closet. They let you borrow anything, anytime. But when they ask you to borrow you favorite cardigan, you lend her the cardigan, and a pair of blue jeans. Anything for a friend. say, "No Way" as you give them back all of the things you borrowed (before you washed them). let them borrow the cardigan - but only after you give them an extended lecture on how the last time they borrowed your favorite cords they came back ripped. 4. It's 11 PM and you are on your way to bed when you realize that you had promised to bake cookies for your homeroom bake-sale. You Down a Diet Pop, and do the Betty Crocker thing till 1 AM, making a delicious set of chocolate chunk cookies. stop at the supermarket on the way to school and pick up a bag of Chips Ahoy. You shrug off your friends complaints with a, "Oh, so sorry!" show up empty handed and say you had better things to do than dirty your hands with cookie batter. 5. It's lunchtime at your school, your best friend has to watch the donation booth for your school's fundraiser for the needy. You sit with her, and take along a book to keep you entertained. pretend you are going to eat lunch in the cafeteria, then surprise you best friend by bringing them lunch and keeping them company. say, "I'll see you later", and find some other friends to eat lunch with. 6. Your Biology teacher asks you if you want to help a student whose not getting stellar marks. The teacher wants to tutor them after school. You say, "I have better things to do!" agree to help, if you get extra credit! say, "No problemo!", and get ready to tutor thinking it just might be fun. 7. You're on your way out to the movies to see some action flick. Your Mom asks you to take your little brother with you. You take him, but make him sit three rows behind you. start yelling at your Mom saying there's no way you be caught dead in public with that little annoyance. take him and introduce him to your friends. 8. This guy/girl that you know, but don't really find date material, asks you to the spring semi-formal. You make like your going to throw up, and in-between the heaves say, "No way, UGLY!" say, "Sure!" Who knows, maybe it will be more fun than you think. say, "I'll have to think about it!", even though you have no intention of going with them. 9. For your birthday your grandmother gave you a lovely new cardigan. But it's exactly the same as the one she gave you last year. You say, "It's great, EXACTLY the same as the one you gave me last year! Thanks granny!" say thank you, then ask your mom to inquire about a receipt....you could after all exchange it for something you might actually want! say, "Thank You, it's great", and actually mean it. 10. You're just on your way out for a really hot date. Your Mom, whose still stuck at work, calls and asks if you can pick up a few groceries before the store closes. You say you will, go on your date, and when you come home later pretend you forgot. tell her 'No Way'. You can't go now, YOU have a date! take your date on a small detour, have a romantic interlude in the produce section, have a lot more fun than you'd expected. Hey, who says the supermarket can't be romantic? 11. Your significant other has just asked you for a drive to work. You go right away, and take your sweetie to their place of work! say, "When was the last time you drove ME to work?", and hang up! say, "Sure Baby!", and take your sweet time picking them up. They get to work really late, but hey they still got there! 12. Your best friend isn't returning your calls. You've left three messages, and they haven't returned one call. You think, maybe they didn't get the messages, and be gracious when you finally connect with them. call a few more times before you give up and start finding new friends. keep calling, and start leaving angry messages on their answering machine!