BF2S Forums Are people insecure or just plain thick?

Zimmer wrote:

Now, I think you may have noticed ( or you do it yourself ) that people are not too sure about someone else's actions. Even if they are concrete and are clear cut actions. I am taking about physical actions here.

I have been in a lift countless number of times ( duh ) and I have noticed that people don't like someone else doing a job for them. A simple one at that.

Pressing the lift button.

I was in a lift with 2 other people - a man and a woman, both in their 30s - and I pressed the button to FLOOR NUMBER 3.
There was a scuffle of feet. Then guess what?
One after the other, they BOTH pressed FLOOR NUMBER 3. Now...is this because they didn't trust the lift recognising a digital code being sent down cable to the motor? Or is it because they were just plain stupid?

Same happens with WAIT buttons on traffic lights. You either don't press them because they are already lit, or press them because they are not lit. But what did the woman do that was behind me? Press it twice. Once I had pressed it. I mean...talk about stupidity.
There are some traffic lights that are permanently lit, yet still I see the same 10 people press them every day.

The same thing happened in reverse today - a woman just stood beside the traffic light and waited. Waited for 10 minutes. I watched her, shaking my head slowly. Then another woman ( this one had common sense ) came along and....PRESSED THE WAIT BUTTON.


It wasn't lit in the first place... I think the woman just hoped, that magically, the traffic lights would change red just for her.


Do you guys see this a lot? Or is it just me in my own fantasy world?

I think people who do this are the ones who have "I am insecure with my life" written across their foreheads.

PspRpg-7 wrote:

The faster you press the elevator buttons, the faster it goes.

crimson_grunt wrote:

I've noticed the same thing on buses.  Someone will press the bell which sounds loudly the entire length of the bus and then seconds later someone else presses it as if the driver won't stop if only one person wants to get off.

Zimmer wrote:

crimson_grunt wrote:

I've noticed the same thing on buses.  Someone will press the bell which sounds loudly the entire length of the bus and then seconds later someone else presses it as if the driver won't stop if only one person wants to get off.

Yup, that just happened 2 hours to go me. But this time it was like 17 times it got pressed.
I wonder what went through the drivers mind at that moment in time.

Last edited by crimson_grunt (2007-05-16 06:57:21)

rdx-fx wrote:

People are creatures of habit and routine, even if the routine involves inane or insane actions at points. 

It would be perfectly obvious to them that what they were doing was insane, if they stopped to think. 
But, really, looking at the way the world works, it's pretty obvious that the vast majority of people do not stop to think unless some outside cause forces them to.

Let me rephrase that for emphasis;
Most people will run on autopilot, unless the outside world hits them in the face with a 'Clue by Four'.