Standing On Escalators?

Grinderman

Am i the only person why wants, to give people who stand on escalators a good kick up the arse.
I mostly notice on Saturdays/Sundays how poeple race around in their cars as if the world is about to end. I then get to the shopping center to be faced by people who walk at a slooooow 1mph and look like zombies when on the escalators. Of course i get looks of disgust when i say excuse me as i pass. Is it a case of Monkey See,Monkey Do.

Garry

Karoma

Use the stairs and leave them standing on the escalator maybe?
I started standing on escalators and blocking the way when I realised it pissed some people off so much.
This can probably be moved to AH and I can merge it with the dozen or so copies of it.

TequilaMockingBird

I think the practice of standing on the right hand side hasn't quite made it to these shores yet. I get that boiling, going to explode feeling too. You are not alone my friend.

Karoma

sueme wrote: »

I think the practice of standing on the right hand side hasn't quite made it to these shores yet. I get that boiling, going to explode feeling too. You are not alone my friend.

Some people have tried, but foolishly - we should stand on the left.

mukki

i started a thread about this months ago


hate it too, "they are moving at about 1mph, will you move god dam it"

Jules

Why in the name of god did you start this here!

Move to where it belongs, Thanks Karoma!

An escalator goes at a certain speed, there is no need to race up or down one. Just relax and enjoy the trip.

Grinderman

Because these people are Big Girls Blouses

Grinderman

Deleted User wrote: »

An escalator goes at a certain speed, there is no need to race up or down one. Just relax and enjoy the trip.

God gave me legs and they also move at a certain speed also.

Xavi6

The whole point of escalators is that they do the walking for you. As mentioned, use the stairs if you're in a rush. I like to stand in the middle of my step so no one can get past

hiscan

i hate them get outta my way maybe i'll just use the stairs from now on:mad:

Grinderman

Xavi6 wrote: »

The whole point of escalators is that they do the walking for you. As mentioned, use the stairs if you're in a rush. I like to stand in the middle of my step so no one can get past

Do you ever get afraid of gettin pushed, only kidding, I would never do such a thing.

Grinderman

Jules wrote: »

Why in the name of god did you start this here!

Move to where it belongs, Thanks Karoma!

Yeah thanks Koroma.

Toto Wolfcastle

I don't mind people standing on escalators as long as they leave room for people to get past. What I really hate is when people stand at the top/bottom of the escalator looking for something in their bag blocking the way. What the hell do you need that you can't look for on the escalator?

I also hate when people who are clearly scared of escalators spend ages trying to get on it and again block the way. Use the stairs ffs! My best friend hates escalators so she uses the stairs, it works out well!

Grinderman

Grinderman wrote: »

God gave me legs and they also move at a certain speed also.

Then use the stairs and stop complaining.

Karoma

If somebody politely asks to get by, I'll move. If I hear so much as a disapproving tut from behind, I stay right where I am (or accidently slip back on my 'dody' leg to step on their toes. Damned dodgy leg, 'tis why I can't walk up the escalator.)

DEmeant0r

janeybabe wrote: »

I don't mind people standing on escalators as long as they leave room for people to get past. What I really hate is when people stand at the top/bottom of the escalator looking for something in their bag blocking the way. What the hell do you need that you can't look for on the escalator?

I also hate when people who are clearly scared of escalators spend ages trying to get on it and again block the way. Use the stairs ffs! My best friend hates escalators so she uses the stairs, it works out well!

There can't be many escalators in Galway...

Anyways, I hate people who rush up/down escalators, as is pointed out, escalators do the moving for you.

Dave!

i lie down on escalators

Toto Wolfcastle

DEmeant0r wrote: »

There can't be many escalators in Galway...

Anyways, I hate people who rush up/down escalators, as is pointed out, escalators do the moving for you.

There aren't actually now that you mention it, but then I'm a Cork girl really!

Karoma

Karoma wrote: »

If somebody politely asks to get by, I'll move. If I hear so much as a disapproving tut from behind, I stay right where I am (or accidently slip back on my 'dody' leg to step on their toes. Damned dodgy leg, 'tis why I can't walk up the escalator.)

Ah the old dodgy leg routine. I do enjoy using it on the escalator. In Galway on Saturday some guy in his 20s started berating me for not walking up the flat escalator in Dunnes. I proceeded to grasp both sides and refused to budge. He tried to push past and I beagan to groan. An old war injury I told him, to which he repleid "you can't be more than 23. What war were you in?" I told him my story of a childhood spend living in La Bezhaktinsatan. Brought a tear to my eye.

The guy

Grinderman wrote: »

Am i the only person why wants, to give people who stand on escalators a good kick up the arse.
I mostly notice on Saturdays/Sundays how poeple race around in their cars as if the world is about to end. I then get to the shopping center to be faced by people who walk at a slooooow 1mph and look like zombies when on the escalators. Of course i get looks of disgust when i say excuse me as i pass. Is it a case of Monkey See,Monkey Do.

Garry

They don't move quickly down the escalators to use their precious time to make a topic about it on boards.ie

Toto Wolfcastle

Deleted User wrote: »

Ah the old dodgy leg routine. I do enjoy using it on the escalator. In Galway on Saturday some guy in his 20s started berating me for not walking up the flat escalator in Dunnes. I proceeded to grasp both sides and refused to budge. He tried to push past and I beagan to groan. An old war injury I told him, to which he repleid "you can't be more than 23. What war were you in?" I told him my story of a childhood spend living in La Bezhaktinsatan. Brought a tear to my eye.

Ah travelators are a different story! I can't stay still on them, I have to walk. Although I got stuck behind a wagon today who stopped her buggy at the top of that one in Dunnes.

But if someone tried to push past me like that and gave out there's no way I'd be budging. If he wanted to walk could he not have gone out into the shopping centre and used the stairs?

janeybabe

janeybabe wrote: »

Ah travelators are a different story! I can't stay still on them, I have to walk. Although I got stuck behind a wagon today who stopped her buggy at the top of that one in Dunnes.

I find if I start walking on them I end up going far too fast and come to a screeching halt at the bottom barely staying up or I grab on at the end to steady myself and end up hurting my self.

janeybabe wrote: »

But if someone tried to push past me like that and gave out there's no way I'd be budging. If he wanted to walk could he not have gone out into the shopping centre and used the stairs?

I would have galdly moved if he had been polite, but I was tired, carrying a number of bags and had a terrible migraine. All I wanted was to be left alone.

Predhead

Don't mind the standing on escalators, as long as they're to one side. But standing on travelators?! C'mon people move it!!

I have a me on a escalator phobia. I once panicked so much I froze and didn't step off.
The escalator came to a sudden shuddering halt and I sent a group of loud american tourists behind me flying.
It was carnage.

For your own safety OP Chillax.

The guy

Mitch Hedberg: "I love Escalotors, they can't break, they can only become stairs.

Sorry for your convenience"

You try standing on the left on an escalator on the London Underground!
If it's rush hour, they'll kill you.

demanufactured

Stairs are for walking , escalators are for standing , if you tried to push past me , i'd kill you there and then.

jester77

Is there no escalator etiquette in Ireland? You'd get your head bashed here, or more likely run over, if you stood still here on the left hand side!

A few strange observations I've noticed regarding escalators, a lot of the non-movers decide to walk about 4-5 steps from the top and not when it reaches the top, why is that? Then there are the morons who decide to stop at the exit of the escalator thus blocking others from getting off, wtf is that all about!

Heisenberg.

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4Xcut

The worst is people stopping to check if someone is still with them at the top of the escalator or stopping for any other reason. When i used to work in a well known department store on Dublin, some moron manager thought it would be a good idea to have someone standing about 6 feet from the top of an escalator and give out free samples of perfume and have a nice crowd build up at the top of an escalator. The levels of stupidity that people display have ceased to amaze me now though.

Kensington

I don't mind people standing on the escalotors. Its the ones who are on them in front of you though, reach the top (or bottom) of escalator and then meet a friend going down the other way/mobile rings/shoelaces suddenly become untied and they stop dead at the end. Unfortunately, they don't quite understand that just because they've stopped, the escalator they've just got off doesn't stop with and so proceed to dish out filthy looks and torrents of abuse as everyone starts to push into them from behind.

Tabnabs

No way I'm observing escalator etiquette like the underground. We didn't suffer 800 years of oppression for nothing!

humanji

I hate people who just stand still in lifts. God gave you arms, for f*cks sake. Just climb, you lazy b*stards!

joeybloggs

sueme wrote: »

I think the practice of standing on the right hand side hasn't quite made it to these shores yet. I get that boiling, going to explode feeling too. You are not alone my friend.

I love that system. Damn those Londoners were the Left side speed walking.

phantom_lord

Deleted User wrote: »

An escalator goes at a certain speed, there is no need to race up or down one. Just relax and enjoy the trip.

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uptherebels

Deleted User wrote: »

You try standing on the left on an escalator on the London Underground!
If it's rush hour, they'll kill you.

nearly happened to me last year.Went to visit the cousins in London,on the underground,for some reason didnt realise that I was the only person standing on the left hand side,cousin pulled me in just as a guy in a suit(umbrella,briefcase and hat)passed us doin about a hundred.If I hadnt been pulled in I would have beem knocked down at the top of a very very tall escalator.

watna

I was walking in to Pearse the other day to get the Dart home. There was a very large, very strange (as in not right in the head kind of strange woman) standing in the middle of the escalator. Every time someone walked past her she shouted at the top of her voice "there's no rush for the train". Everyone just ignored her and squeezed past. If you've ever got a dart at 5.30 you'll know they can come in at any time and there is a rush for the train. Plus I knew it was due in 2 minutes I was meeting someone on the first carriage (they were getting on at the next stop) so I did really need to get past her to leg it down the end of the platform.

So annoying, it was rush hour ffs. There IS a rush for the train, you big freak.

Dinter

I often stand on escalators and walk backwards to the direction of travel. I keep glancing at my watch and muttering about how long my trip upstairs is taking.

DaveMcG

DaveMcG wrote: »

i lie down on escalators

quality. I face the direction i've just come from and move my heels up and down while still keeping my toes on the escaltor, giving the impression that I'm moonwalking.

the whole year inn

your talking about stage right, that would make it my left


I am so smort

The_Minister

sueme wrote: »

I think the practice of standing on the right hand side hasn't quite made it to these shores yet. I get that boiling, going to explode feeling too. You are not alone my friend.

I came across that when in London.
It was a breath of fresh air, and I wish we had it over here.

_Whimsical_

How sophisticated we have become as a nation... an entire thread on the subject of escalators and not person has made reference to it as the "moving stairs".

staker

escalators have nice shiny stringers either side so i always wait til its empty so i can slide down one leg either side of the steps. works best with leather soles. admittedly time lost in the waiting can be annoying

Overheal

An escalator flight takes up, what, 30 seconds of your life?

Seriously if you want to do some lifehacking, look elsewhere, like the toilet.

Having said that the moving floor (its not REALLY an escalator as theres no escalating involved) in airports: thats just too much fun not to run across

Mr. CooL ICE

I like to walk into shopping centres with a pile of blocks over my shoulder and a wheelbarrow full of mortar. When it gets quiet and nobody is on the escalator, I build a wall at the exit and sit back and watch, all for poos and giggles

echter

Grinderman wrote: »

Am i the only person why wants, to give people who stand on escalators a good kick up the arse.


Garry

if you want to get up faster run up the stairs, the escalator is reserved for us lazy people

Grinderman

Predhead wrote: »

Don't mind the standing on escalators, as long as they're to one side. But standing on travelators?! C'mon people move it!!

Did you just make that word up
If you mean the sloped moving ramps (or flat ones)
I love coming down the sloped ones, can get up to 15mph on a long one, pain to anyone in my way.:)

Grinderman

chilly wrote: »

How sophisticated we have become as a nation... an entire thread on the subject of escalators and not person has made reference to it as the "moving stairs".

I did a spell check on escalators
Did you do the same with sophisticated
Dont tell anyone:)

Have ya ever sat on an escalator before? it's so much more fun. Especially when you race someone.

Grinderman

humanji wrote: »

I hate people who just stand still in lifts. God gave you arms, for f*cks sake. Just climb, you lazy b*stards!

I find it funny when people have shared a lift with you and havent said a word, then they say "See Ya" when getting out. I feel like saying, what's your name again.