AIBU to say it doesn't change anything?

[Urubu]

Either I am missing something or a LOT of people are.
I was waiting for an elevator, I had pushed the call button and this was obvious as it was therefore lit. A man arrives, pushes the button again (ok, maybe he didn't notice the light, fine), after 10sec he went to push it again.
I am seing variations of this daily, either pedestrians pushing the button to cross the street, people calling elevators or people choosing a floor in an elevator.

If the call button is lit, please someone tell me, why do so many people push it again??

Oh and does it make the green light / elevator come faster if you push the button 3-4 times in a row quickly? A lot of people seem to be doing this as well?

[Meowstro]

I double and even gasp triple press the floor or close door button of one particular lift and it works. I've used the lift to the car park for years so I know (I only learned of it in sheer frustration of its slowness after a long, shitty day at work) but people think I'm a right arsehole.

People do it because they've got places to be and people to see, everything these days is quick, quick, quick and how dare a lift not be!

[Urubu]

teaandtoast
I was wondering about this? Because that would be a good reason!!!
Same for banks of elevators in office buildings, if by pressing the button several times meant the system would send you an elevator faster, I would start doing it as well!
Anybody works for an elevator company?

[Urubu]

I'm not sure why it annoys me, I guess I am annoyed as I want to tell them that it is pointless but I know it would be rude and awkward so I can't.
Anyway, it is true it doesn't make any harm, I'll get over it...

Because lots of lifts have different lights you really can't tell if it's pushed or not from them unless you are familiar with that particular one
Yes absolutely, but I have seen lots of people do it at work, and I have seen them around for a while.

[Ducknose]

It's just impatience, I think.
But a lift I use lights up once pressed, but it requires a hefty punch to actually work. You could be stood there for 5 minutes before realising you need to give it another jab. So it could be that people are double pressing it to make sure.

[teaandtoast]

I saw someone push the button multiple times in succession on a crossing near me. The lights changed immediately. I have tried this out since and it does work on that particular crossing.

[YouCantArgueWithStupid]

I'm a double pressed because I want everyone waiting for the lift to know I've got the biggest dick

[MipMipMip]

I just tend to be on auto.

[AngelsSins]

I've done it, it's more automatic and I don't realise the light is lit before my finger is inches from the button and then feel a dick for pressing it! I don't then press it again 10 seconds later though!

[xMeowx]

I do this, thinking I'm going to speed up the lift somehow.

[Goldfishshoals]

Sometimes I'll push a button twice to make sure I did it properly. Because lots of lifts have different lights you really can't tell if it's pushed or not from them unless you are familiar with that particular one.

There's no harm pushing it more than once, but if it isn't pushed you're in for a long wait, so why not?

It's just a harmless outlet for mild impatience that we all feel now and again.

Spot on. I drum my fingers on my desk when waiting for a phone call sometimes. Not because I think I'm important, or I magically think the drumming will make them call. Just gives me something to do.

[OldEnglishSheepDog]

I don't trust other people to have done it properly.

No really. I really really don't.

[BertieBotts]

It took me embarrassingly long to learn that the directions on the lift call buttons are to mean "I want to go up" or "I want to go down" not "I want the lift to come up/down to me". I spent years wondering how you were supposed to know if the lift was above or below you, and frequently pressed both, just in case.

[Silverthorn]

Better than the situation I had where I rock up to a pedestrian crossing with 3-4ppl (obviously seperate) waiting. Wait for several minutes for no green man to appear. Turns out no one had pressed the button.

[Lilymoose]

I work in a big hospital with many lifts and see this all the time! It's as if people think we are just waiting by a lift for the fun of it.

[EssentialHummus]

Oh and on pressing it multiple times - those people are just twats who want to demonstrate that they are sooooo busy and important grin

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Seconded!

[Mittens1969]

It does make me laugh, so pointless. I mean, obviously children will do it, it's fun, but would an adult really think it makes a lift come any more quickly???

[KarateKitten]

Sometimes a button is permanently lit in some way so you push it again and discover it goes red or blue when pushed meaning that being lit before didn't mean anything. Sometimes when I've been somewhere I'm familiar with and there's someone waiting oatientially at a button that is lit but not calling anything I then have to lean past and apologetically push the button to call the lift.

So people push buttons to see if the status of it changes and just not be sure. It's not a mystery. And someone standing waiting is honestly no guarantee it's been properly called.

[BitOutOfPractice]

Thanks Beware

[BewareOfDragons]

I get why children do it ...

But grown ups? Weirdos. Trying to look important.

[angelnix]

To be fair, I was waiting for a lift the other day (joining the queue of people waiting) Waited for a bit and looked to spot that no one had pushed the lift call button!!

[Ttbb]

It makes sone people feel better. Makes no difference though.

[StickThatInYourPipe]

I saw something about this on Twitter the other day. Their explanation was that it was misogynistic - though they were talking about men doing it when women have pressed the button

Oh ffs really? I press it multiple times because I am an impatient fucker and like to feel like I'm doing something to hurry it up. Same reason I press an icon a million times to open something on a computer. It's all about my misplaced logic, nothing to do with who has pressed it first.

Literallly EVERYTHING has to be sexist now, it's belitteling the things that actually are!

[Bambamber]

I think people are just impatient and think if you push it enough the lift will prioritise them. I see it every day, makes me chuckle every time, especially when they've already pushed it but the lift hasn't come quick enough so they press it again 30 seconds later

[PollyFlint]

We all do stupid things like this without thinking about them, either out of habit or just for something to do. For example, most people will wiggle their mouse or around or tap their keyboard harder when their computer freezes, even though it will have absolutely no effect. It's just a harmless outlet for mild impatience that we all feel now and again.

It doesn't bother me when other people do it as it affects me in no way whatsoever. People who press the call button when I've already done it aren't doing it because they somehow think I didn't do it properly, they're just doing it for something to do. It's something and nothing, really.

[BitOutOfPractice]

I do it In my fevered imagination, it makes the lift come quicker. I had no idea it was annoying. Sorry!