ESCALATOR vs STAIRS

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cantbaretowatch
cantbaretowatch

I would run up the stairs and wait at the top of the escalator for the BOBs ( Big Ole Babes) to arrive.

Westcoaster
Westcoaster

Were that located here in the U.S. the building would be sued for discriminatory hate crimes against fat people. A felony that’ll earn you 7 years in the cooler.

IndenturedServant

While I was in high school just outside Madrid, Spain I used to ride the subway (Metro) all the time. There were loads of stairs in these tunnels and on some of the deeper lines they had escalators. On the deeper lines it was not unusual to have to go up or down several escalators or stairs that were 100 yards long. Anyway, my Spanish friends showed me a devious little trick to pull when the tunnels and stairs were crowded. If you pulled on the escalator handrail just right it triggered a pressure switch which shut down the escalator cold. Once I learned that trick I rarely failed to employ it just before stepping off the escalators.

Llpoh
Llpoh

Young IS needed his ass kicked.

TE
TE

@Llpoh, with all the new science confirming, IS was just doing the Spaniards big health favors by making them move.

Laziness and non-movement are two of the biggest detriments to long life and health. IS was just helping out his fellow man 😉

IndenturedServant

Oh yeah, I definitely needed my ass kicked! I was hell on wheels and partied my ass off continuously! Spain was paradise for a hellion like myself!

Llpoh
Llpoh

I lived in Spain a while. Those folks could not walk fifty yards without stopping for a rest and a smoke.

IS – I was pretty wild myself. And got my ass kicked a time or two. Did not slow me down, tho.

IndenturedServant

TE says:
“@Llpoh, with all the new science confirming, IS was just doing the Spaniards big health favors by making them move.”

Actually, most Spaniards were pretty damned fit. Everyone walked everywhere. I’ll bet I walked 20 miles a year in subway tunnels alone. My friends and I could walk across town faster that a bus could get us there. Everyone walked to socialize in the evenings when it cooled off and each neighborhood was set up with practically everything a person could ever need. Although cars were numerous, gas was expensive and walking or riding bikes was ubiquitous.

If that picture above had been taken in Spain when I was there, the only people on the escalators would be little old ladies and old men. We used to sprint up the stairs or even the escalators when they were empty. Gawd I miss that life! I had so much fucking fun over there that it almost seems like a dream instead of real. I easily had several lifetimes of fun over there and I was always smart enough to step back and drink it all in for my later years. It’s almost as if I knew life would never be that good again.

Gubmint Cheese
Gubmint Cheese

Notice the pole in the center of the escalator entrance.

Is that a sizing device to keep the real fat fucks off or just to block dumb asses with wheel chairs, Rascals and Hoverounds?

IndenturedServant

That pole is to stop the real dumb-asses from attempting to ride escalators in scooters and wheelchairs because yeah, they are that dumb.

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