Red Button, The (UnReal)

A Tantalizing Thing To Press

Author: Claire V. Gray 
Date: 1997/09/21
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Phenomenon:  the red button, a tantalizing thing to press.

Description:  shiny, candy apple red, round, usually set into some sort of surface.

Explanation:  if you stick a person and a shiny red button in a room, they are more than likely to come in contact sooner or later.  Humans are attracted to red buttons, partly out of curiosity and partly because they want to take a risk.  The shiny red button holds a sense of mystery for the will-be-pressing person.  It has to be pressed.  Shiny red buttons could either kill you, erase you, destroy the universe, send you across the galaxy, change your personality, or make you a very happy carbon based life form.  Shiny red buttons are just plain irresistible to anyone that may come across one and will eventually get pressed.