Thursday, September 28, 2006
I know we have all done it. Most of us have even done it more than once. But to the impatient lady at the crosswalk of the busiest intersection in town, GET A FRICKEN LIFE!!! I promise you, you are not that important! What on earth would posses you to push the walk button that many times? I would love to know what you are thinking. Do they need to post rules on the walk buttons now?

Push button one time.
Wait for the word WALK to appear.
Walk across the street.



Pushing the button over and over again does not make a bit of difference. The walk sign will appear when the traffic lights change. No sooner than that! You are not tricking the light! Pushing the button 100 times does not make it think that there are 100 people waiting to cross. Nor does it think that you are in a really big hurry so it better change now. You can not fake out the light by pushing the walk button to go both ways. It knows you only want to cross one way. It knows this is driving you crazy. It will just make you wait. Ahhhh yes, keep pushing the button! Its not helping though is it? The only thing you have accomplished is the laughter in my car and the many other cars waiting at the light. Yes, we are laughing at you! So is the person who reviews the tapes of the camera at the top of the lights designed to catch those who break the law! With out you, their day may have been quite boring. But I guarantee you, they are laughing too.

On a brighter note, I have to give you props. At least you are out in the unusually warm weather getting some sort of exercise while I sit on my lazy bum in my nice cool air conditioned car! Kudos for you!

Word to the wise! When you get to the cross walk, and you press the button. Once is all it takes. Two or three times, we will let slide! But if you keep pushing that button, I promise you, the only thing you are doing, is providing the rest of us our humor for the day, and perhaps a funny story we can share with our family!
 
posted by Lisa at 7:51 PM |


9 Comments:


At 2:46 PM, Blogger Ramblins of a middle-aged goddess

You know it is the same thing as trying to push the word enter on your computer more than one time...it just confuses the computer even more and after awhile it gets so confused that it just hangs itself UP!! We creatures are just in too much of a hurry. I try to remember that I need to slow down!! Nothing is going to work any faster than it was made to work.
I am feeling much better now with the BIG DRUGS from the doctor. I get this awful stuff about twice a year here in the South East. It gets so bad that I get close to pneumonia. They keep a close eye on me...lose my voice and it goes down into my lungs. Thanks for stopping by my blog...

 

At 3:12 PM, Anonymous Anonymous

Or like how you keep pressing the remote control buttons harder and harder when you know the battery is dying.

 

At 9:21 PM, Blogger Unknown

I think Blogger must have been laughing at me this past Thursday, I kept hitting enter over and over again on the word verification, and it kept coming back with that's not it, try again!

 

At 11:24 AM, Blogger Frances D

My printer was out yesterday - so I'm pressing and pressing the button. Finally I just used the other printer for the rest of the day. Today when my business partner fixed it - it printed about a bazillion copies nonstop - and we tried pressing the cancel button over and over - but it wouldn't stop. Buttons are high on the enemy list today round here.
Thanks for sharing and visiting.
Have a great weekend.
Frances

 

At 2:19 AM, Anonymous Anonymous

that is irritating! i only do push a button repeatedly during video games - which happen very rarely.

 

At 7:12 AM, Blogger Trinity13

Ha, it's the same way with elevators. Why do people think that if they press the up/down button several times that the elevator with skip the other floors and move faster for the impatient people?! :-)

 

At 6:16 PM, Anonymous Anonymous

You saw me at the light pressing it more than once didn't you?

 

At 8:49 PM, Anonymous Anonymous

LOL, I am SOOOO one of those constant button pushers!

 

At 5:52 AM, Blogger Pixie

That is so funny! I was watching the crossing guard at oldest's school yesterday doing that & I thought to myself, how is that going to make the walk sign come on any faster??