Does it annoy you when you spot?

I doesn't really annoy me, but I feel like telling them that it makes no difference.

People also do it at light-controlled pedestrian crossings. You see them prodding the button continuously until the lights change. Why? Once the first person has pressed, the system knows that someone is waiting. There's no need to press again.

It does annoy me when travelling by bus if several people wish to alight at a stop and every single one feels it necessary to ring the bell. Surely, only the first person needs to ring. It must be so irritating to the driver to have that going on all day.

Funnily enough, having worked in the City of London for what seemed to be an eternity, my long-term affliction from vertigo was compounded by a LIFT(ELEVATOR) phobia.

Straight-up (I kid you not) although retired some 15 years or so - I STILL have recurrent dreams - ABOUT TWICE A MONTH - of being in my long-term employers' office block - going UP when I planned to go DOWN - vice versa - and constantly stepping out on the WRONG FLOOR - and using the stair-case instead.

Dreams - not nightmares - just a dull nagging reminder of those darned BUTTON-PUSHERS, who seemed to constantly confuse/alter the way arrows were pointing.

Yes, it is particularly annoying when they press the button in both directions and you end up having to go up when you wanted to go down (or vice versa). But the worst offenders are the ones who jam the lift completely so that they can do something or other on a particular floor at their leisure while the rest of us wait in vain.

Yes, indeed, I live now in a condo building and the elevator is right across from my front door. I can hear clearly everything that goes on out in the hallway....including the gits who keep pushing the elevator buttons as though it will speed up to get to them.

If I could figure out a way to make the button give an electrical zap to anyone who pushed it more than once, I would do it!

ha ha, yes I see this quite often. No-one has any patience nowadays. The lift will come when it comes and no amount of jabbing the button will make it arrive any sooner.

It's usually people who are in a hurry or very impatient. I've noticed the same thing when I'm at a cross walk waiting for the "walk" sign to come up. Frequently others who come up after me will hit that same button, sometimes repeatedly (even if they witnessed me pushing it) as if hoping it will make it turn faster. And don't call me Shirley!

Yes it annoys me loads... HOWEVER if you hold down the lift button rather than constantly press it, it make your journey the first priority. In other words it doesn't stop to pick other people up, it takes you straight there!

I'm with John on this one , it's akin to the higher you set the thermometer the faster the room will warm OR lol , the harder you squeeze the trigger the further the bullet will go.

It does not bother me as much as it amuses me thinking and smiling to myself the same effect about how the lift would run or not run.

That isn't one of the things I get stressed over but then again there are no elevators in the town I live in.