At my school's dorms, there is one crosswalk that leads us into campus. Meaning, every single day we go to school, we have to cross this crosswalk stoplight thing. Now, it's almost the end of semester and it amazes me at how people still don't understand the mechanics of it. There are several different types of people that piss me off.
1) The people who can't figure out when the light is going to turn green. Let me explain it to you, because it's really NOT a mystery. The go sign comes up and is green and it beeps 7 times. Then the red hand comes up and flashes 8 times, and then the light for the cars turn green and the cars go. It's a never-ending process. I see people walking on the 7th flash. Then it turns green for the cars to go and the pedestrian is in the middle of the street with this dumb look on his face and is like , "Whaaaaa"¦.?" I mean, come on jackass, lets try to ACT like we go to college and aren't brain-dead. You can get a high school diploma but can't figure out the mechanics of the spotlight crosswalk.
1.5) When the light starts to flash red but they still have at least six seconds left to cross the road but they just stop there and wait. It doesn't directly effect me but im like "GO MOTHER FUCKER!"
2) I know you've seen one of these types of people. The ones that go trigger happy on the button. I walk up and see people like playing a tune out of it. Here's a tip to save you from getting carpel tunnel syndrome. ONE TAP WILL WORK JUST FINE! Even seeing people touch that sucker twice gets me. What's the second tap for? Good luck? Do you REALLY think that any more than one tap is going to make it go faster? If you are one of these people, please stop reading and start studying, because you obviously need to keep up with the rest of us you grabass.
3) Cats out of the bag, I hate this one the most. I will be standing at the light with about 10 other people and someone else will walk up and hit the button. What's going through your brain? Were you born with the natural reaction to hit every one of those buttons regardless of it has already been activated? Or maybe you were doing me and the 10 other people a favor because maybe we FORGOT to hit the button. Mayyyyybe it just slipped our minds and we forgot to hit the button. I have half a mind next time this happens to shake their hand and say, "Thank you, without you I would have never remembered to hit that button and I would have been late to class."
3.5) If I am standing on one side with my friends, and someone comes up from the other side, why do you have to hit the button too? I obviously already triggered it. Maybe I'm trying to pull a prank on you and didn't hit the button in the first place so you will be waiting there for hours on end. Or maybe if both sides are activated then it will go faster, right? WRONG! And you know we already pressed it, and everyone on my side knows what you are trying to pull"¦when you walk up all slow like and slowly fall backwards so your backpack hits the button. Why don't you just trust us"¦bitch? We know what you're doing. Try not to act all shy. How about next time you just walk into traffic?
4) I don't even need to explain this one. I'll just tell you a conversation me and someone else had.
Person : Hey, did you already press the button?
Me : What do you REALLY think?
5) Well"¦every stoplight in the country has a pattern that it follows, it isn't just random. At our school it goes as follows: It is shaped like a "T". The top of the T is the traffic on the main street through campus and the "I" part of the "T" is to and from the dorm parking lot. So the top of the "T" goes first, then when that goes red, the "I" goes, then the pedestrians can cross from the left side of the "I" to the other side and go into campus. The only exception is that if there are no cars waiting for the "I" part then it just goes from the top of the "T" to pedestrians. Here's the issue that students have. They forget that there are cars in the "I" part so they walk when the "T" part goes red"¦thus making it so that the "I" part almost hits them, or has to wait there and then it goes red for them and they just wasted like 3 minutes of their life because they have to wait for the whole process to go again. I hate those people, when they do it and I'm the car I honk and hold it there for at least 3 seconds to show them just how pissed I am.