How boring! You want to get ahead? Ask 'em to move, lie if necessary. "Bathroom emergency" will clear any pathway.

How about a debate on the extra power the escalator motors have to use to push against a walker's effort? How about some videos of women spinning on the handrails? C'mon Woot!

tgentry wrote:What I want to know is why people are freaking out when I use the escalators as a proxy treadmill. I'm getting fit here people. I'm part of the solution.

While you are getting fit perhaps you can design a shirt that assists with your fitness goals...you know what I'm talking about.

an escalator is obviously stairs since that's it's default state... an escalator left to its own devices will eventually become stairs unless well maintained... so it's only fitting that you walk up them...

sure, if they're the narrow kind then don't feel obligated to move over... but if it's the wide kind then stay to one side... especially in a busy place...

sure, those few seconds don't always get you anywhere except waiting sooner, but often they let you catch that elevator or plane door just before it closes...

and who the hell puts an escalator in an office building? I don't want fat lazy people working around me... start walking before I flip that red switch at the bottom and make you all into the whiners you are...

bsmith1 wrote:I like to walk on the moving sidewalks because I feel like I'm super-fast! (I tried to clock the speed with GPS app once, but no reliable signal indoors)

See, that's my feeling about moving sidewalks and escalators: they make me feel like a superhero or a demi-god of some sort when I walk on them. I recommend walking on them simply for the illusory sense of power.

I avoid escalators entirely. Ever since that time I was on one, and it broke down... I was stuck on that thing for hours and boy did I have to pee!

At least if the elevator breaks down you might have some privacy with which to relieve oneself... But nooOOOOOoo, not on an escalator. You're just hanging it all out for people to see then.

And, they all just stand around snickering at you and laughing as the repair guy pushes his way past you while climbing down the broken ensemble to reach the base and fix it. At this point I never know if I should call OSHA or not to help the guy out. He'll set up these barriers to keep people from falling into the pit beneath the escalator, but he wears no safety harness himself when traversing a non-working unit. He doesn't even off you a safety harness to wear until he fixes it!