The useless button to close the door in an elevator (it's just there to
> make people think it's closing on their command)
Apropos of very little: In Palestine, and presumably a number of other places, those things actually work! It took me a while to get used to pushing them again, returning to what had been, in America, a useless habit.
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."