Please do not take anything I say in this post or on this blog seriously. Ever.
At some point in time, the escalator must have been the pinnacle of modern technology. What are they to us now? A bad idea.
My point, friends, is that escalators are the epitome of laziness. This is true in more than one way. Here's the first. The escalator was lazy engineering. They literally just slapped a motor on some stairs. Just kidding. The real story is much funnier than that. Here it is:
On March 15 1892, Jesse Reno patented his moving stairs or inclined elevator as he called it. In 1895, Jesse Reno created a new novelty ride at Coney Island from his patented design, a moving stairway that elevated passengers on a conveyor belt at a 25 degree angle.
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Going back on topic, the second reason escalators are the epitome of laziness is obvious, what they do to people. I think that when they originally put the exactor into the first shopping mall or airport, their intention was to get people up faster, not slower. I don't think they were intended to replace the swinging of our lower appendages back and forth entirely if we wanted to move up or down a level.
Also, what's up with elevators? I don't mean to say you're lazy if you use an elevator, only if you use it instead of stairs.You see, I work in an office building. An office building with four floors. Everyone I know in this building works on the second floor. Every day I see people take the elevator instead of the stairs. What's ironic about this is that the elevator is actually a further walk from the parking lot than the stairs are.
Sigh... What is this world coming to?
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Lane Fries (a.k.a. Dr. Freeze)
Yes. People complain that they don't have time to "work out", but they have a "stairmaster" at their offices and can use them for FREE, several times a day!!!!! WOW!. Or how about when you go to the airport and people plant themselves in the middles of the moving walkway and stand there----thus defeating the purpose of the moving walkway entirely. It is there to help you to get to your destination faster----for those passengers who are running late and/or trying to reach the gate to a connecting flight (or maybe just want to arrive a bit early and enjoy sitting w/a cup 'o joe before getting packed into a sardine can for 4 hours!!!! If you walk (or jog) on a moving walkway, you double or triple your time of making it to your gate on time. But what you always run into is the above scenario---lazy people who STAND IN THE MIDDLE of the walkway and refuse to acknowledge that there are people in a hurry in an airport-----"Oh my, really there are people here who came from a delayed flight and are might miss their connecting flight? No way, it can't be true? Well, it's not my problem----they should have left earlier". So MOVE OVER PEOPLE and let people by, thus allowing this great invention to do it's job!!
ReplyDeleteI love your comment about the moving walkways. That's so true.
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