Seeing Liz’s post made me inspired to blog again. I’m not guaranteeing anything super fantastic, or with any regularity, but here goes for today.
I notice that I use the words annoyed, irritated, bugged and frustrated a lot. To describe myself. Mostly while shopping. I addressed this issue once in a post almost 3 years ago, but I have other things to add. It relates to the concept behind that post, and how I should write a book called Shopping Cart Etiquette (and other things I think the world should already know). Here’s another chapter to add:
Repetitive Button Pushing. This chapter would delve into the idea that once a person has pushed a button there is no need to push it again and certainly no need to push it an additional 44,000 times! For example, I walk up to the cross walk, push the button and stand right next to it waiting for the hand to turn green so I can cross the street. Then, someone walks up and feels the need to push it again. That irritates me SO much! I think it’s insulting – like I’m too dumb to know that I was supposed to push the button and this person feels like they have to pick up the slack and cover for me. To take it a step further, it annoys me even more when someone walks up and presses the button multiple times. Come on people, pushing the button 12 times in succession does not make the light change any faster!
Several months ago, I actually could not stand it and verbally lashed out at someone on the street. I know, I need anger management classes or something. I was at a cross walk by work going over to McDonald’s. I had pushed the button and was standing next to it, like any normal, reasonable person would do. This young kid (and by “young”, I mean 22), comes up and pushes it about 5 times, violating both of the above mentioned principles. I quickly turned to him, gave him the evil eye and said, very sarcastically, something like “yep, that was needed – like I didn’t already push it”. The kid was shocked. I’m sure it wasn’t shock over the fact that he realized the error of his ways, but shock over the fact that some crazy lunatic would ever feel so passionate about button pushing, that they’d actually say something.
My repetitive button pushing chapter will apply similar lessons and principles to elevator buttons.
1 comment:
Ha! You would hate it when I come to a corner then. I do all of those things. Not because I think the other person didn't, but just to DO something. I always think the light needs to know that there are SEVERAL people waiting for it, not just the one, and I always think the light needs to know that we all REALLY want to cross by pressing the button lots of times. I know it doesn't work, but it makes me feel like I'm being proactive.
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