And by that I apparently mean Jesse!

I do this with street crossing buttons. Because, at least in Rochester, there are actually lights that don't change unless you press the street crossing button! And I once stood there like an idiot for like 10 minutes, so I want to make sure it takes!

How about the people in the lobby who, upon seeing that the "up" elevator button is lit, push the button repeatedly as if they think it will make the elevator arrive more quickly?

Also irritating. But the "pressing the 1 button" is my new pet peeve.

I made the Rice Krispy Treats O'Doom last night to take to the daycare people at the gym. I make them by melting Milky Way bars with some butter and then adding the Rice Krispies. Then top them off with some melted Hershey bars. I'm glad they're boxed up and ready to deliver.

It's odd. I don't remember putting CRACK in them.

I have the day off, but it's raining. Which totally throws the wrench in my plan of gardening all day.

This is how easily distracted I can be. I went to the grocery store and decided while I was there that I was going to make roast chicken with garlic, rosemary, and potatoes. I bought the potatoes, but forgot the chicken, rosemary and garlic.

Mystery of the day: Why does having 2 toaster waffles fro breakfast only lead to me being hungry an hour later, but when I eat three waffles, I'm full for hours?

Pushing the button repeatedly makes it go faster.

In the elevators where I work, pushing a button (even one that's already lit) will cause the doors to close sooner than if you just wait. Granted, it saves maybe 2 seconds, but the effort expended is also pretty small.

The annoying thing with the elevators in my office building is that only one elevator answers a call, and it's not always the nearest one - this is a major hassle after, say, a fire drill or a large meeting on another floor. They don't auto-return to the first floor, either.

I believe my elevators work as Strega's do, when you're going down. But at the lobby level, it's a whole crazy system of waiting and then people have all of these methods they think make it go faster, like hitting the top floor button, none of which work.

My usual elevator pet peeve is when people wait so long to exit that the elevator doors close in my face as I'm trying to get on. Make it snappy, people! MOVE MOVE MOVE.

I think that Jesse and shrift need to conduct a not-scientific experiment and start a rumor in their respective buildings about [something] that makes the elevators go faster. Then see how long it takes for the rumor to infect their workplaces. E.g., tell people that pressing the button to the beat of the first verse of the Itsy-bitsy Spider can make it skip floors and come direct.