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.

I would love to share a crossing with you OP, I absolutely hate touching the button. Grotty things, I positively shudder if I'm forced to touch one

I'm amazed at how many people stand there and don't press the button.

I know its not been pressed as its not lit up. So I go press the button, button is now lit, and I do think in my head "you stupid car counting fucker".

How does someone find a two year old thread on this subject?

Who the fuck made you button queen? ;) I fucking love pressing those things, you aint gonna stop me. Oh no!

Irrational annoyances, it should be added to the 'we know we are being unreasonable' thread.

I also find people awdling or not pressing the buttons more annoying. Sorry to the person who said she lets her kids decide and then someone comes and presses the bastard button but that was me a few months ago. I as waiting at the lights, mum got there with kids and said loudly (looking at me) 'lets see who should press the button'. Two minutes later they are still arguing, no one else has come along and the traffic is so bad. I ask the mum if she's going to be long, she ignores me so i think 'fuck off' and press the button. She gets humpy and tells me I'm 'so mean. I tell her I don't have all day to wait and since she obviously does have nothing better to do she can wait until they change back and press it again.'

Not sure how long she had to wait, someone came up the other side and pressed the button just as I walked off the other side.

A Pegasus crossing?
It's a different world

I did this to someone the other day. Our office has moved to a new location, and there are weird crossing buttons and lights, and it's not obvious whether the button's been pressed or not. So I pressed it, and got a dirty look from the women standing several yards away, nowhere near the button.

Was that you, OP?

People doing that doesn't bother me. What gets me irrationally wrathful is someone coming up and pressing the button 9 million times and then looking smug when the lights change, as though the rest of us poor saps don't understand how it works.

The other thing that nearly makes me explode is when someone stops the lift you're in, gets in, and then gets sniffy because you're going down when they wanted to go up, clearly not getting their heads round the idea that pressing both up and down buttons is what makes this happen! I've been standing with people who've done this, and it makes me want to scream.

I did once have great fun with buttons in an Ikea lift, mind. I got in at the same time as what was clearly a group of students, kitting out their place.

The lift didn't go. We pressed some more buttons. The doors opened. We closed them. They opened again. We tried to get out. The doors closed. We pressed more buttons. The doors opened about a foot and then slammed shut again. We were there for quite a while pressing random combinations of buttons and coming up with elaborate plans like 'You hold those three buttons, he'll hold my Yucca plant, and I'll make a run for the doors.'

I wouldn't even notice if someone else pressed the button when I'd already pressed it.

If I did notice, why would I even care? This idea that it's in some way disrespectful to the first presser is mad.

OP, calm down dear before you do yourself or someone else some damage.