Have you ever noticed when a piece of technology isn’t working correctly, you start pressing the buttons harder under the subconcious but totally useless comprehension that if you press the button harder, then its going to work where a normal press of the button won’t.

I was watching the guy whose having phone problems at present at work. He started pressing the buttons with ever harder force i expect in the hope that if he presses it hard enough then its bound to work. Never mind that the fault was identified in the exchange, just press those buttons and its going to work just fine when you apply enough force.

I realised that this isn’t an isolated incident either. How often do you see crossing at the lights someone who presses the button once and then more faster and faster and often harder and harder in the hope that their increased devotion to sending signals to the little man in the lights will pay off. The worst thing is i am sure when the lights do change of their own accord they think it was because of their efforts and not as is correct because the electronic cycle of the traffic light control said it was time. Admitedly your not going to catch me here, thanks to my on going traffic light button phobia. I needed to press the button today but chickened out and used my hip. Its only hand contact with the button that worries me.

All of this only really occured to me as i sat here after writing my last post as for some reason my website is going really slow for me and having frequent time outs. I was getting frustrated, the thought “post damn it, i’ve got to post” running through my brain as i clicked on the publish button. Every time it was harder and harder to the point that i think i have hurt one of my fingers slightly. Its also given me a new appreciation of how hard the plastic that they use to make a computer mouse is.