Escalators---parents beware!

[Mermaid]

Loose Shoelaces! You don't want an escalator eating them either.

 

[savvytangerine]

Escalators have always freaked me out a little. No real reason - they just do. One time I was riding an escalator after a stuffy subway ride and about halfway up --- some stupid kids (actually older than me at the time) pushed the emergency stop button!!!

So - the escalator was full and everyone did their best impersonation of a set of dominos. Luckily no one fell completely on their face - but a bunch of strangers bumping into each other was awkward to say the least.

Now --- it is Then I was...

 

[potatovixen]

Not to make light of the situation, but this thread reminds me of a scene (Actually a few scenes) from Mallrats, one of my favorite movies. Jason Lee's reaction to the kid on the escalator is hilarious. Listen closely at the end to the security announcement.

 

[Beach Runner]

Escalators have always freaked me out a little.

My Mom's best friend when I was growing up absolutely refused to get on an escalator. That was back in the day when everyone in Atlanta shopped at the downtown Rich's and ate lunch at The Magnolia Room there (chicken pot pie and nut pound cake -- yum). Mom, her friend, friend's daughter, and I shopped together quite frequently. It was always annoying to have to take the elevator with her -- so much slower.

 

[savvytangerine]

They just don't seem quite right - quite natural. I know that is a crazy thing to say when so much is machanical in this world. But there is something about the way I "feel" on an escalator that gives me pause.

Hey - I'll get on one. But I might be nervous all the way up/down.

 

[steele mama]

I always make Grayton Kid stand in the middle. Of course he is running up and down. :shock:

 

[audie]

the only escalator we have in town at a dept store ate my friend's elderly grandmother one time, the edge of her long coat got caught in it somehow and it was a mess. blood and everything...

 

[Smiling JOe]

They just don't seem quite right - quite natural. I know that is a crazy thing to say when so much is machanical in this world. But there is something about the way I "feel" on an escalator that gives me pause.

Hey - I'll get on one. But I might be nervous all the way up/down.

I agree. In today's mechanical world, mostly for liability reasons, we tend to see nothing but clean and safe lines of machines such as these. Look at the elevator as an example. We see nice doors from the outside, and when we step inside the cage, some of them are really fancy looking, with Mahagony panels and soft lighting. The escalator still looks like we are seeing all of the parts which should be hidden from view, those same parts which also make it look dangerous. Those grooved steps also look like jagged edges which could do some real damage to your lower mandible if you were to fall.

 

[ktmeadows]

A little 5 year old girl lost her foot in a similar escalator accident at a downtown department store here in St. Louis about 15 years ago. I think of that nearly every time I get on an escalator.

 

[ShallowsNole]

OMG!! SN!!! I have the same thing. (I don't think the incident I witnessed helped at all...but) I can't stand them! Sunkist and the whole family and most of my friends make funn of me because I will seek out an elevator every time! I break out in a cold sweat! When I went to Vegas, I was horrified to see that you can't get anywhere there without riding an escalator. I solved this issue with vodka.

I'll have to try vodka. So far I've just used deep labor breathing. It also doesn't help that I am not graceful , and getting on and off an escalator "smoothly" is a challenge for me. Maybe vodka wouldn't be helpful after all...