Originally Posted by ajax
(I couldn't sympathise with you more.)
Of course these buttons blatantly don't work on the Underground, but that doesn't stop me secretly smiling at the tourists who don't know any better and who seem very satisfied when the door springs open after they tap it a few times...!
One of those tourists, probably, was nobody else but me...
I have sincerely believed that the buttons work on the Tube. Until now.