Escalator etiquette

[redbreegull]

I am an avid stair-runner. Getting stuck behind slow moving people, even just on the sidewalk, is very very annoying. There are a lot of oblivious people in the world who aren't concerned whose way they are in.

[Run To Me]

You ever just run up two stairs at a time but misjudge cause your dumb and trip and bust your chin open lol

[buzzard]

I think I walk quicker on those airport conveyor belt things than I ever do on actual terra firma.

The Paul Walker of pedestrianship for several beautiful seconds.

[reprise85]

Originally Posted by teh b0lly!!1

it drives me crazy seeing how lazy people are - very often i'll see people actually opting to take the handicapped elevator just to avoid going DOWN 10-15 stairs. or people literally squeezing into an escalator just to not take a bunch of steps. what the hell is wrong wichoo?

obviously many people are just lazy but remember that not all disabilities are immediately visible. like i'm a fatass but i take the elevator down when my old foot injury is bothering me for fear of it giving way on the stairs

[FoolofaTook]

I always go upstairs two sometimes three at a time. I think my record is five maybe six. Almost did a split but I made it.

Two meter lyfe yo.

[FoolofaTook]

I AM TALLER THEN ALL OF YOU

[ilikeplanets]

then all of us what?

[FoolofaTook]

Are hobbits

[Cool As Ice Cream]

Originally Posted by smashingjj

The gf recently said that our country was the only one where people just stand wherever, leaving no place for people to walk past them. Is this true? I know in England you stand on one side and walk on the other and it's a big nono if you don't and i wouldn't be surprised if this was the same in the US and Canada. And lol, India.

in belgium people also stand wherever.

[smashingjj]

does that annoy mrs coolasicecream as much as it does annoy smashinghh?

[Cool As Ice Cream]

inderdeed, it does. massively.

i have seen a sign once in a train station that suggested that people stood on the right and walked on the left, but that's definitely not a general thing here. and even with the sign, it didn't work. people don't know and probably don't care either.

[smashingjj]

hahaha. so the Belgians aren't more polite and orderly than the Dutch in every single way after all.

(they are in most ways though)

[Cool As Ice Cream]

hard to say. i'm never sure if people in a train station are actually belgian. a lot of them aren't. they speak funny languages.

[smashingjj]

be aware, those could be foreigners.

[Cool As Ice Cream]

damn fuck shit
i knew it! i should have known it!

[Rairun]

Originally Posted by LaBelle

Where I live no one walks past others on an escalator, it's viewed as kinda rude even if there's room to walk.

My experience in my area of Brazil as well.

In the UK people don't always stand on the right either, I find it's mostly Londoners who get really upset if you don't.

[Cool As Ice Cream]

i find it's mostly french who are in the way.

[cork_soaker]

vrai vrai

[LaBelle]

I once tried running up the down escalator at the mall as a kid and sprained my ankle real bad.

[reprise85]

i remember doing that at a museum and cutting up my knee

[smashingjj]

i was on an escalator yesterday and saw a sign that said 'stand on the right, walk on the left' and there were two railway people standing before me, blocking both positions

I think one of the reasons it's not a very big issue here is that the escalators are never super long

like in London it sometimes feels like you're going down for a mile before you've finally arrived

[vixnix]

Stand left, walk right , here. And in Sydney. In Beijing it was stand right, walk left, and most people did it, and they were annoyed with the massive fatass foreigners standing on the wrong side.

[redbreegull]

Originally Posted by smashingjj

I think one of the reasons it's not a very big issue here is that the escalators are never super long

like in London it sometimes feels like you're going down for a mile before you've finally arrived

Longest escalator in the Western hemisphere is at the train station by my house

[redbreegull]

[teh b0lly!!1]

that escalator seems like it only ends inside a black hole

[smashingjj]

the escalator operates at light speed and it still takes 1,5 hour to reach your destination

imagine a couple of fat americans blocking the way

america fuck yeah

coming again to block the motherfucking way

[LaBelle]

I wanna butt slide down that

[smashingjj]

the westernmost hemisphere is in the trainstation by my house. longest trainstation in the escalator.

[smashingjj]

true story.

[teh b0lly!!1]

Originally Posted by LaBelle

I wanna butt slide down that

too
....easy