Do you take the escalator, or do you walk up the stairs ?
What a weakling you are for choosing the escalator.
Edit :
It seems that the irony got lost : most people just take the escalator for a mere 50 steps, just as most people would just take the bus if it’s convenient. So all people in this thread shaming her are quite ridiculous.
As for me, I take the stairs instead of the elevator daily (5th floor) and wouldn’t get on the bus because I have strong social anxiety.
Walk because its clear and I can get up it faster than waiting for the morons on the escalator that don’t know how to use steps. Also I often have a bike with me and its easier to just lift that and walk up the stairs.
Or, if it’s so busy that you can’t comfortably do that I take the stairs.
I also take the stairs instead of the elevator at home because it’s only a handful of floors and man, I am already old, decaying and extremely out of shape. My knees would fuse solid otherwise.
No, but unseriously, why shame people for being complacent? Maybe semi-seriously; like, 35% seriously, at best.
Edit: And maybe more seriously but still mostly casually uncaring, you never know what lives other people leave. Also, a campus shuttle is actually amazing if you think about it. Personally, I’d rather be able to do a nice busride to class, but I’m well aware that I can’t waste valuable sleep time with that. And, risk being stinky around other people? No thanks. Also, having to deal with upkeep, storage, and security of a bike? Blegh. It would be cool though to live in a culture that both had the bikes and infrastructure, and didn’t have the thievery.
Also, you gotta remember, a lot of the US is very far apart and is so imbued with car culture and infrastructure. Plus, we, like the rest of humans, just can’t deal with our problems, and just had another major setback existential challenge.
That was meant to be ironic but it got lost it seems ;-;
What I meant was that, If you see stairs next to the escalator, most people just take the escalator. Same as if a bus is going where you are going to, most just take it without thinking.
I wanted to show that shaming her for taking the bus was ridiculous, just as shaming people taking the escalator instead of the stairs was ridiculous.
Man, since you want me at 35% serious I’ll come clean and say that when I poked at Americans I genuinely didn’t think the response would be “greentext isn’t real and she didn’t exist but also she is my cousin and I know for a fact she was disabled and she NEEDS that bus”. I don’t know if I should own the trolling and not acknowledge that the only part of it that worked was the splash zone and not the direct impact.
But also, the OP explicitly says the distance was one mile. I know the US is big, but I didn’t realize it was big because universal expansion had made one mile larger than it is elsewhere. I guess that explains a lot.
It also explains a lot that “a bike chain” is “upkeep, storage and security” and that a ten minute walk is wasted sleep time that makes you stinky.
Alright, alright, let me get back to being somewhat real for a second. I’ve been to the US a bunch and I don’t have a driver’s license, so I walk everywhere and it’s genuinely shocking to me both how poor walking infrastructure is, but also to what degree Americans consider anything not directly next door to be “not walking distance”. I get that it’s cultural, but it’s also deceptively soul crushing. I refuse to leave the house unless it’s on fire and I still find spending time in many areas of the US physically distressing. And Canada, too, don’t think that having competent health care and a few extra busses means it’s different over there.
Escalators really aren’t that common where I live. The architecture is mainly regular stairs and then there’s a lift somewhere nearby for disabled people.
A few malls built in the late 90’s/early 00’s tried emulating the American escalator mall look but it didn’t really take off.
Do you take the escalator, or do you walk up the stairs ?
What a weakling you are for choosing the escalator.
Edit :
It seems that the irony got lost : most people just take the escalator for a mere 50 steps, just as most people would just take the bus if it’s convenient. So all people in this thread shaming her are quite ridiculous.
As for me, I take the stairs instead of the elevator daily (5th floor) and wouldn’t get on the bus because I have strong social anxiety.
Walk because its clear and I can get up it faster than waiting for the morons on the escalator that don’t know how to use steps. Also I often have a bike with me and its easier to just lift that and walk up the stairs.
I walk up the escalator.
Or, if it’s so busy that you can’t comfortably do that I take the stairs.
I also take the stairs instead of the elevator at home because it’s only a handful of floors and man, I am already old, decaying and extremely out of shape. My knees would fuse solid otherwise.
Oooo ByGorou u got f’d uuuup!!
No, but unseriously, why shame people for being complacent? Maybe semi-seriously; like, 35% seriously, at best.
Edit: And maybe more seriously but still mostly casually uncaring, you never know what lives other people leave. Also, a campus shuttle is actually amazing if you think about it. Personally, I’d rather be able to do a nice busride to class, but I’m well aware that I can’t waste valuable sleep time with that. And, risk being stinky around other people? No thanks. Also, having to deal with upkeep, storage, and security of a bike? Blegh. It would be cool though to live in a culture that both had the bikes and infrastructure, and didn’t have the thievery.
Also, you gotta remember, a lot of the US is very far apart and is so imbued with car culture and infrastructure. Plus, we, like the rest of humans, just can’t deal with our problems, and just had another major
setbackexistential challenge.That was meant to be ironic but it got lost it seems ;-;
What I meant was that, If you see stairs next to the escalator, most people just take the escalator. Same as if a bus is going where you are going to, most just take it without thinking.
I wanted to show that shaming her for taking the bus was ridiculous, just as shaming people taking the escalator instead of the stairs was ridiculous.
Man, since you want me at 35% serious I’ll come clean and say that when I poked at Americans I genuinely didn’t think the response would be “greentext isn’t real and she didn’t exist but also she is my cousin and I know for a fact she was disabled and she NEEDS that bus”. I don’t know if I should own the trolling and not acknowledge that the only part of it that worked was the splash zone and not the direct impact.
But also, the OP explicitly says the distance was one mile. I know the US is big, but I didn’t realize it was big because universal expansion had made one mile larger than it is elsewhere. I guess that explains a lot.
It also explains a lot that “a bike chain” is “upkeep, storage and security” and that a ten minute walk is wasted sleep time that makes you stinky.
Alright, alright, let me get back to being somewhat real for a second. I’ve been to the US a bunch and I don’t have a driver’s license, so I walk everywhere and it’s genuinely shocking to me both how poor walking infrastructure is, but also to what degree Americans consider anything not directly next door to be “not walking distance”. I get that it’s cultural, but it’s also deceptively soul crushing. I refuse to leave the house unless it’s on fire and I still find spending time in many areas of the US physically distressing. And Canada, too, don’t think that having competent health care and a few extra busses means it’s different over there.
Escalators really aren’t that common where I live. The architecture is mainly regular stairs and then there’s a lift somewhere nearby for disabled people.
A few malls built in the late 90’s/early 00’s tried emulating the American escalator mall look but it didn’t really take off.