About pressing the button at crossings!

[Melysia]

Hello all, I don't often write anything on here just browse but one thing has been pissing me off for ages. I want others opinions or rather some fellow ranters!

Just to say that I swear...a lot..so if your of a nervous disposition, which I doubt most of you are at this time of night, then don't read!

The basis of my rant is this.

Your stood at the lights ready to cross the road. You press the button to cross, the little lights around the button light up, indicating that you've pressed the button. Some fucker either on the other side or on the same side, which happened to me the other day, comes along and presses the sodding button.

Ok, it's really petty, but it's happened so many times I'm starting to seeth and get anxious when the effing person comes along and presses the button.

What the fuck do they think you've been waiting for?

"Hey nob sock, I'm not counting cars, I'm waiting to cross the fucking road".

The straw that broke..no scrap that...the wrecking ball that obliterated the camel and smashed through the whole of the fucking sahara was when I was stood right next to the button the other day. Some bloody school girl comes along right next to me and looks right in my face and presses the button. OH MY GOD, I could have gone all drunken master on that girl. What's wrong with people? Why do you have to press the button, leave it alone. It's been pressed, just look at it. It's lit up like a fucking light house. The lights don't change any quicker just wait like anyone else.

It doesn't make it go any slower either, though.

Maybe they just like pressing buttons?

Seriously? Is it really worth even thinking about?

and then when they have pressed, and it changes, they look at you as if to say "see, I can get it to work"...

There is a crossroads near us, that for some inexplicable reason has a button to press at each of the 8 crossing points... why I have no idea, as the lights are on a set sequence, have been for years, and you could press them merrily all day long and it would not have any effect at all!

I'm just adding that to my list of things I would never dream of giving a fuck about even if I had 1000 fucks to give

Perhaps they're so used to pressing it every day that they don't even look at it and the little lights around it?

Everyone knows the more people that touch the button the quicker the lights change, it's the same for lifts

I always press the button even if it's pressed. Lifts, pedestrian crossings, whatever the button. Don't care if the light's on - I want the clicky clacky sensation satisfaction too. You can't keep it for yourself OP.

FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT

For real?

How do you feel about bus bell ringers?

My two year old would make steam come out your ears she doesn't give a flying fuck if you've pressed the button, she's going to do it anyway.

Do you OWN the button? No. Didn't think so. YABU :o

Pressing the button is one of those little pleasures in life.

Chill out op, you'll have an aneurysm if you carry on stressing out so much.

That doesn't bother me. What does get my goat is those twats who don't press the button - especially when they stand right next to it so nobody else can get to the damn thing. Bastards.

I thought this thread was going to be about the arguments that break out when you have more than one child and they all want to press the button

Then, just after you've finally sorted that one can press it on the way over and one on the way back....some stupid wanker of an adult presses it and there's tears all the way

The stupid wanker of an adult is normally my DH

I'm sorry, but I really do not pay that much attention to you or any other stranger, that I would notice whether or not they had pressed a button!

You might be being a wee, teeny bit self-centred.

Itwas, that pisses me off too. We have 1 set of lights where I live and the green man only comes on if you press it. So Annoying!

Quite a lot of the crossing buttons, especially at junctions, don't do anything at all.

itwasaboo is right - the REAL problem is people who stand there vacantly without bothering to press the button at all, as if the lights are going to change by magic.

Someone pressing a button that's already been pressed - meh.

All my kids press the button. Bet you hate me now OP

Some people think more presses will speed the lights changing. Those people are mostly pre-school age, granted.

I agree with Boojum that non-pressers are far more annoying.

As are the pedestrians who don't wait for it to go green and instead leap, lemming-like, in between moving traffic.

"Mum, we can go!"

"No, we have to wait for the green man".

"But those people are crossing, look!"

"Yes, maybe they want to get run over".

It's you're not your.

Are you my DS? He gets very stressed about who gets to press the button. His excuse is that he is 3 :D

and if you are my DS you should be in bed. UPSTAIRS NOW!

OP you could always stage a dirty protest and smear the button with your own shit after you've pressed it.

That ought to put a few people off

Those buttons are filthy, I wouldn't press them. If I'm standing there first, the next person to come along had better press it or they'll have a bloody long wait.

Well really it depends whether the crossing is a pelican, toucan or puffin crossing. Believe you me it makes a difference what type it is I have learnt this in the long running intense discussions I am having about the crossing by our house. We used to have a pelican crossing you press the button and even if you disappear of the lights change for green man. They changed it to an awful puffin crossing which uses cameras to monitor if someone is still waiting, but the camera angles are very narrow missing quite a portion of the waiting area so you have to keep pressing the button to remind it you still exist.

"Some people think more presses will speed the lights changing. Those people are mostly pre-school age, granted."

Or they're 35, are shameless, and still like pressing buttons. I draw the line at shitty buttons though so worra might have the answer for you OP.