Escalators

**Dizi** · 04-09-2009 05:16 PM

What is it about walking down a stopped escalator that totally messes with my equilibrium? I have no fear of them. Does that happen to anyone else?

**duckhunt** · 04-09-2009 05:40 PM

its the lines man.

otherwise them steps are bigger than normal ones i think...

**iidrum** · 04-09-2009 05:53 PM

Your brain has been trained to expect it to be moving, so even though it isn't, your mind of correcting for the motion of the steps, so it feels weird.

**wakeup** · 04-09-2009 06:07 PM

Stopped escalators > moving escalators.

At the local mall, I commonly shut them off just to make fat, lazy people walk up them.

**iidrum** · 04-09-2009 06:26 PM

Originally Posted by wakeup

Stopped escalators > moving escalators.

At the local mall, I commonly shut them off just to make fat, lazy people walk up them.

Vigilante personal trainer?

**Cellar Yeti** · 04-09-2009 08:40 PM

YouTube - Play him off, keyboard cat.

**Jerrdan** · 04-09-2009 09:04 PM

When I was little I watched a 20/20 on people getting their leg skin ripped off on escalators. If for some reason I have to ride one downstate or something, I have to jump on and off of them because the lines are pretty freaky.

**Hamkins** · 04-10-2009 08:51 AM

Originally Posted by Cellar Yeti

YouTube - Play him off, keyboard cat.

Man that cat playing the keyboard made me laugh a fair bit more than it probably should have... Cheers though haha

**Archy** · 04-10-2009 11:19 AM

Jayordan, just checking: roughly how many miles would you have to drive from the pinky crack (south, I assume) until you hit your first escalator???

**thokk2** · 04-10-2009 11:32 AM

Mitch Hedberg-

“An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You would never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.”

**Jerrdan** · 04-10-2009 12:47 PM

Originally Posted by Archy

Jayordan, just checking: roughly how many miles would you have to drive from the pinky crack (south, I assume) until you hit your first escalator???

Oh man, I don't know. There is one in the Grand Traverse Resort, but it's broken and it's been broken for awhile. They put in a new casino, so maybe that has an escalator. The only place up here that would have one would be a casino either here, or up north. Umm... maybe Grand Rapids which is 155 miles away and they might have one.

**whatsisname6** · 04-10-2009 02:58 PM

I'm terrified of escalators. Absolutely freaked out by them.
In Mexico, there was a three story tall escalator, with no other way to get up, and I had to ride it. Bricks were shat. I nearly lost it and fell down it. Holy balls.

**Archy** · 04-10-2009 04:18 PM

Originally Posted by Jayordan.b

Oh man, I don't know. There is one in the Grand Traverse Resort, but it's broken and it's been broken for awhile. They put in a new casino, so maybe that has an escalator. The only place up here that would have one would be a casino either here, or up north. Umm... maybe Grand Rapids which is 155 miles away and they might have one.

So you really are safe from the gnashing steel teeth.

I'm moving to the country on Sunday, so I'm gonna put a little more distance between myself and machines made to hoist lazy shoppers.

**Landy's_for_Life** · 04-10-2009 06:26 PM

**Skinart** · 04-10-2009 07:31 PM

Sadly...not awesome truth. Witty, but not truth. Sometimes escalators break in such a way they can't be
used as stairs. Just giant gnashing stairmasters of death.

I have on no less than five occasions been denied access to an escalator because it was broken. Twice, the
escalator was ripped wide open for repair. Once the escalator failed to form a step. The other two in memory
remain a mystery.

Note: Escalators are more dangerous to skaters because we wear grippy soft soled shoes that have been known
to get caught in the grooves of the steps... just from stepping on the escalator.

**Jerrdan** · 04-10-2009 07:37 PM

Originally Posted by Archy

So you really are safe from the gnashing steel teeth.

I'm moving to the country on Sunday, so I'm gonna put a little more distance between myself and machines made to hoist lazy shoppers.

Just "The Country"? The teeth are really scary too! Like, if you were to fall down an escalator you'd come out looking like ... I don't know.. a potato stabbed with a fork a bazzilion times.