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.

Phew. Thank you Bruffin. Will leave them well alone from now on just in case.

Phew, thankyou confusedpixie!!

Ooh. That was weird. Same words different subject cross post.

I thought the lights change quicker if more people press the green man button

If it was a green woman instead of a green man, she would flipping well show up and let you cross when you wanted her to instead of making you wait half an hour pressing and twiddling things.

I don't mind this at crossings because I understand the deep joy of pressing the button. It drives me nucking futs at lifts, though. Or when you want to go down and the other person wants to go down too but they press the sodding up button as well, thinking it'll get them where they're going faster. No, dipshit, it'll make the lift going up stop at this floor, let us on, continue up to its original destination and then stop again at the now empty floor on the way down. It slows EVERYONE down and you will just end up spending more time in a small box full of strangers who smell like cabbage farts.

I work in big London town and there's a crossing which counts down until the green man goes. It's the highlight of my working day.

I like to press the button 3 times. Whether I need to or not, I feel all twitchy if I don't press the button 3 times.

The boys both like to press the button as well. It makes us happy.

Wow.

Wow.

weirdo!

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

I thought it would be about how you have to sit at the lights & wait for nobody to cross after some shit one presses the button & stands there watching as you sit there, or walks off without crossing like I used to do as a kid silently laughing

Push button. Cross anyway. Leave cars idling at lights for no reason

I think you have deeper problems and are projecting this on to your crossing ishoos

I know Where there is a countdown crossing, its outside Holborn station

If you put your hand under the 'box' bit you will fnd what feels like a oven control dial - when the lights change it starts to spin. It is for blind people but if you hold on to it no one else presses the button - no idea why but it works.

Pelican, toucan or puffin?

Wow. I never knew there were so many options but can't be arsed to google them

I've just realised it's been bloody ages since I used a pedestrian crossing.

Might make it my goal today to cross theroad using one.

And I'll press the button 20 times in honour of the OP!

I'm not bothered by the lights but I do hate it when people let their kids press the buttons in lifts so it stops on every floor! Someone did this in the multi storey carpark last week, we were on the top floor and getting off at the bottom, Grrr!

YABU

For Mardy

I agree with the OP, small children excepted. I think, once the button has been pressed and the waiting light is illuminated, any further pressing should switch it off again. What do the repeat-presser's think you're doing there? Taking the air?

It might be Ireland that has countdown crossings. Or maybe France Actually, no it was Ireland, because it was when I went to Dublin a couple of years ago that I noticed them.

I always smile at people who do this because I assumed they had learning difficulties. My stepsons want to push the button regardless, it's something I associate with young minds.

I'm amazed at the number of adults admitting to loving pushing buttons.

YABU because children like pressing buttons. Don't be a meanie.

sashh omg so THATS what my DD fiddles around with EVERY TIME we cross the road! Now I know.