Put a Hong Kong person near a lift, and they will jab compulsively at the buttons.
Outside the lift they will press the button to go up or down (probably both), even if someone has already pressed it. They even press the button when the light goes out because the lift door are about to open, because, well, you never can be too careful, right?
Once they get inside the lift they will push the button to close the doors the very second the last person leaves the lift.
Yet, put the same people at a pedestrian crossing controlled by traffic lights, and they will stand there like zombies waiting for the lights to change. What’s the difference?
Ordinary Gweilo 
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