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Stairway to Heaven
Feb. 4th, 2009 11:39 amI'm in an odd mood today and as such I'm going to waffle aimlessly about escalators. don't worry you can just skip to the poll.
Escalators are great - especially if, like me, you have bad knees and going up and down lots of steps at train stations or in big shops is painful.
Unfortunately Leeds station has only up ones to most platforms* which means you're sometimes faced with having to shove through the torrent people going up the stairs who've just got off the train you're desperately trying to get on. This is cos the bottom of the stairs is closer than the escalator in the scuffle. But sometimes I have to fight my way through people who are coming from platform 17, people who've walked past the escalator. Why is this? it's more prevalent at the beginning of January so I put part of it down to people making new year's resolutions about getting more excercise and using lifts and escalators less.
Then I remember, about 18 months ago, bumping into someone I know in HMV - we were just heading down the stairs and then *bam* cloggage. She was standing at the top of the escalator with her foot hovering over where the top step appeared, for aaaages, trying to will herself to get on or time the correct moment to get on. I didn't ask which it was as she seemed flustered and said she'd always been scared of escalators.
Now when I see people walking up the steps at the station, having clearly gone out of their way past an empty escalator, I wonder if they're scared of them too or just getting fit.
polltiem!
[Poll #1343363]
Any scary/amusing escalator stories or observations? Do comment :) **
* understandable due to lack of space on the platforms - but I sometimes I find going down steps more painful than going up them, depending on which bit of my shonky old knees is playing up. did I mention I'm old? And shonky? And have knees?
** told you I was in an odd mood.
Escalators are great - especially if, like me, you have bad knees and going up and down lots of steps at train stations or in big shops is painful.
Unfortunately Leeds station has only up ones to most platforms* which means you're sometimes faced with having to shove through the torrent people going up the stairs who've just got off the train you're desperately trying to get on. This is cos the bottom of the stairs is closer than the escalator in the scuffle. But sometimes I have to fight my way through people who are coming from platform 17, people who've walked past the escalator. Why is this? it's more prevalent at the beginning of January so I put part of it down to people making new year's resolutions about getting more excercise and using lifts and escalators less.
Then I remember, about 18 months ago, bumping into someone I know in HMV - we were just heading down the stairs and then *bam* cloggage. She was standing at the top of the escalator with her foot hovering over where the top step appeared, for aaaages, trying to will herself to get on or time the correct moment to get on. I didn't ask which it was as she seemed flustered and said she'd always been scared of escalators.
Now when I see people walking up the steps at the station, having clearly gone out of their way past an empty escalator, I wonder if they're scared of them too or just getting fit.
polltiem!
[Poll #1343363]
Any scary/amusing escalator stories or observations? Do comment :) **
* understandable due to lack of space on the platforms - but I sometimes I find going down steps more painful than going up them, depending on which bit of my shonky old knees is playing up. did I mention I'm old? And shonky? And have knees?
** told you I was in an odd mood.
