Elevators and escalators
Back to Others#41 techboy
my old school's elivator made me nurvus, everytime it would move I'd hear a click. also the doors scare me
#42 khalil2009
I don't really care. just as long as I get to where I need to go and safely
#43 starchild
well, my strategy with things like escalators is to listen for when it ends. I usually try to make my self as small as possible as not to get in the way
#44 marchoffmann
Well, I kinda get a good feeling of when it ends, it's really not as dramatic. And when I feel like it ends, I get ready to go off, lifting my legs up and forward just a little little bit. And elevators, some are old and can creak, or do other things. I prefer them anyway. It is more fascinating to me.
#45 starchild
I remember this one time I was at this hotel in colombia. the elevator was so old,, it jamd once or twice a day and you could hear all the old rusty hydraulics
#46 marchoffmann
Was probably very fun riding that thing,
#47 blindflatearther2
sounds stresful emagin having to ggo some ware and then getting stoped not by trafic but by a elivater
#48 fire_fly
I find elevators boring, escalators are more nice. :D
#49 Jacobww3
Oh? I find that it depends on the elevator that you are on. In those highrise places you can really feel the speed of them as you go up and down. And you would really enjoy going on those mine shaft hoist. Because when you move fast, you can feel the wind as you move so you can really tell how fast you are going.
#50 marchoffmann
Escalators are more boring, heh. You just step on them, wait like 10 seconds and step off.
#51 Jacobww3
Quite right. Plus Escalators are easier to fall from them. That's why I don't take them. Elevators are safer.
#52 fire
I know so mutch about elevators it wood be imposible to write it all in a post
#53 marchoffmann
Um? Ok so how can you fall off an escalator. You'd need to climb up the rail which goes at least up to where your arms start or higher, a bit hard to explain but they're high enough unless you're an unstable shaky 2 metre tall person heheh.
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Quite right. Plus Escalators are easier to fall from them. That's why I don't take them. Elevators are safer.
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#54 Jacobww3
Falling off an elevator is extremely rare. It has happend but that's only because the elevator was not installed right. So Elevator also have an emergency phones. escalators don't have a phone incase of emergencies. There was a time where a child got cot between the gap of the escalator and the floor. So elevators are easier to help with that.
#55 marchoffmann
In general though if you're not stupid this rarely happens, and if the escalator stops you can just climb it further up/down yourself. Not defending them cuz they're boring but your points are a little bad.
#56 Jacobww3
Well here is a good point about elevators. No matter what disabillity you have, elevators can be used by everyone If you are in a wheelchair, you can't use escalators. So that's why when I see an elevator, I know that the building is disable friendly.
#57 marchoffmann
Not always. It could have bad structured places, none of your braille buttons or voices, etc. Don't you expect a high hotel building for example to have an elevator simply because it's a lot of stairs from bottom to top?
#58 Jacobww3
Og right I forgot about the braille buttons. THose are the things I look for when I do my accessabillity acessements. Good point
#59 fire
I also hope there is a braille control panel in elevators ware ever I go but sometimes there just isant
#60 supremekiller
That sounds scary tbh.