There are some that you can clearly see are in a rush, but I want to stop them sometimes and ask them if they really think pressing the button 50 times rapidly is going to get them across the street sooner. Maybe they actually have some belief that built in to the system is a counter and if it thinks that a lot of people want to cross then it should hurry up and let them cross. Is it actually possible that people have this belief?
Let's say they're not that delusional, and pressing the button is just a sign of their own anxiety and the circumstances that they are dealt. In that case I would like to tell them that waiting at the signal is exactly the time to chill the eff out and just wait the 20 seconds for the signal to turn. They could take that time to observe numerous other things, like people acting foolishly, to make them feel better about themselves.
It's exactly these times that make me glad I'm part alien.
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I'm one of those people. Something irrational in my brain has told me that if the button detects my impatience, then it will change faster. Something only-slightly-less-irrational tells me that there may be a particular time, during which the button presses are registered for the next light. If I hit it hundreds of thousands of times per second, I'll be sure to nail that band of time.
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