Re: The WTF thread
I came across a "WTF Thread" in another forum somewheres, and thought there should be one here, too. So, this is a thread for people to vent their issues: things that are like "WTF!"
For instance, WTF is up with crosswalk buttons? Who in their right mind invented such things? You walk up to one just before the allotted time to push it before the traffic light cycle changes - like literally half a millisecond - and you're expected to have to wait for an entire cycle before the crosswalk signal changes again, even if it is perfectly safe for you to cross the street? Really?
Or, you see someone standing there at the corner as you approach, and, of course, you're wondering, did the other guy press the stupid traffic signal button or didn't he? For all you know he forgot. Or he's waiting to cross the other way. Or he's just standing there. Who knows? And so you have to be a tool and press the dumb button again just in case he didn't. Of course, the next person who comes along does the same thing, lol. And the next, and the next - everybody at the corner having unnecessarily pushed the stupid WTF button.
Alternatively, you could have gone ahead and asked the person standing there if he had pressed the button or not. Of course, though, that would freak him or her out. I mean who actually recognizes a random stranger's existence by actually talking to them? Only crazy people. I mean, can you imagine the conversation? "Hey, buddy, did you push the button, eh?" "Umm. Huh?" "The crosswalk button. Did you push it or not?" Uhhh..... yeeeessss.......".
So what else do you do? What if you just don't want to be a tool and push the !@$#-ing button again unnecessarily? Well, you just stand there, saying nothing, hoping he pushed the WTF button. But did he? No, of course not. He's just standing there. And so just as the cycle ends and the white man doesn't light-up and you realize he didn't push the button, what do you do? You go ahead and press the bloody thing, like 50 times, all pissed-off, and you do it even though you know it's too @#%ing late and you're going to jaywalk anyway!
Because after all that, there's no way you're going to just stand there like a twit for the next half a @#$%-ing hour. And so now guess what happens...?
Yup, you jaywalk and either get ticketed or you almost get run-over by some twit driver who's relishing being able to tell you off for not pushing the bloody WTF button.
And the worst is, there doesn't even need to be a @#!$%ing WTF crosswalk button to begin with! It's a completely useless thing. I mean, when you drive up to a traffic light, do you have to get out of your car and push a button to start the traffic light signal cycle? Nope. And why not? Because the traffic lights cycle AUTOMATICALLY!
The crosswalk signal could be calibrated to cycle automatically, too, and do so in tandem with the traffic light cycle. How do we know this? Because this is pretty much how EVERY OTHER CROSSWALK SIGNAL WORKS PRETTY MUCH EVERY OTHER $%^-ing PLACE ON THE $%*$-ING PLANET!
I mean, WTF? Who invented the crosswalk signal???
And they actually got paid for this @#$%?
W - T - F?
