Really Really Really Lazy!

[Nardpuncher]

I make a commentary during the video, but this is a department store here in Taipei...the line is for the elevator! The sign says that it's a 15 minute wait..yes there are working escalators and the store is only 8 or 9 storeys. Ugh!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuJa528Lizg

 

[RoJoHen]

Wait. People are waiting in line for an elevator when there are escalators there, too?! I can understand some people not wanting or being unable to take that many stairs...but escalators?!

 

[TheKeeper]

I know someone who has a near-phobia of escalators. She has epilepsy though, and says the sight of moving steps freaks her out. She can still use them to get between two floors, but I think she'd wait fifteen minutes for an elevator rather than take eight escalators in a row.

 

[RoJoHen]

I know someone who has a near-phobia of escalators. She has epilepsy though, and says the sight of moving steps freaks her out. She can still use them to get between two floors, but I think she'd wait fifteen minutes for an elevator rather than take eight escalators in a row.

Somehow I don't think all of these people can use that excuse.

 

[TheKeeper]

Somehow I don't think all of these people can use that excuse.

True enough. And it's especially odd given that standing on a series of escalators requires little more effort than standing in line for an elevator.

 

[RoJoHen]

It's so many extra steps!

 

[Nardpuncher]

Don't get me started! There are 2 branches of the gym in this city that have escalators and I'd say about 90% of the people stand still on them!

Also, regarding the original video, it gets worse...I doubt everyone in that line is going to the top floor. Do not be surprised if some of them were going to the second floor!

 

[KimMH]

I know someone who has a near-phobia of escalators. She has epilepsy though, and says the sight of moving steps freaks her out. She can still use them to get between two floors, but I think she'd wait fifteen minutes for an elevator rather than take eight escalators in a row.

Escalator accidents tend to be horrific and terribly bloody - your friend may be the sensible one. I'm not crazy about them - I'd do the stairs - lucky I am healthy. It would be quite a conundrum if you were handicapped.

 

[Captain Shaw]

I don't mind going up a escalator but i hate getting on one to go down.
Also i find the tesco escalator for the trolleys to be a bit steep.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I have absolutely no problems with escalators. I have only ever seen one lady fall on one. She was coming down the escalator when she realised she was about to fall and called out help. A young man going up the other escalator jumped over to her escalator and manged to catch her just before her head would have hit. He held her head up until they reached the bottom.

I have arthritis and I think I would prefer to take a couple of flight of stairs than to wait in line for 15 minutes. Waiting in lin would be just as hard on my knees as two or three flights of stairs. I don't think I would cope very well with 8 or 9 flight of stairs.

Some of those people in the line look quite young and fit.

 

[Lindley]

I try to remember to walk down and back up all 11 flights of stairs at work once a day, to help burn a few calories.

It must be doing something, because my legs always burn afterwords.

 

[RoJoHen]

Stairs are an awesome way to burn calories.

 

[MANT!]

Don't get me started! There are 2 branches of the gym in this city that have escalators and I'd say about 90% of the people stand still on them!

Also, regarding the original video, it gets worse...I doubt everyone in that line is going to the top floor. Do not be surprised if some of them were going to the second floor!

 

[Captain Ice]

Somehow I don't think all of these people can use that excuse.

True enough. And it's especially odd given that standing on a series of escalators requires little more effort than standing in line for an elevator.

Ro me, it would take more energy to patirntly wait in that line than it would to walk the 8 flights of stairs.

I don't mind going up a escalator but i hate getting on one to go down.
Also i find the tesco escalator for the trolleys to be a bit steep.

You have an excalator for your shopping carts???

 

[Nardpuncher]

^^ funny thing is while I was out yesterday I happened to see a special escalator for trolleys! It hooks on and keep the back wheels raised so that as it goes up the incline the trolley stays level. but it was not at the dept store in the video.

The gym I go to is a 24 Hour Fitness too...but not the one in the photo.

 

[Captain Ice]

^I'm just trying to picture how much stuff a grocery store would have to stock to justify that.

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[TorontoTrekker]

I'm normally okay with escalators, but the one leading from the MARTA (subway) station to Peachtree Centre in Atlanta freaks me out. It's ridiculously long, and my perspective somehow flips about halfway, and I feel like I'm moving sideways instead of up or down. I realized back in September that it's probably because the tiles on the walls are aligned to be perpendicular to the escalator, rather than the ground.

(However, the escalator at CNN - which is, if I recall, eight stories tall - didn't bother me at all. But I think that one is open, rather than having walls close by like the one in the MARTA station.)

 

[Captain Shaw]

You have an excalator for your shopping carts???

How do your shops get there carts to the next floor

^I'm just trying to picture how much stuff a grocery store would have to stock to justify that.

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Upstairs in the supermarket is where they sell clothes ,PCs,TVs and all other electrical goods and down stairs is for food toys ect and some have post offices there has well.

 

[Lindley]

You have an excalator for your shopping carts???

How do your shops get there carts to the next floor

Typically stores where you're expected to buy a lot (like grocery stores) have carts and only a single level, and stores where you're expected to buy in a reduced quantity, more targeted fashion (like department stores) may have multiple levels but no carts.

It occurs to me that department stores also often have a distributed checkout system, with many small cashiers scattered throughout the store, to reduce the distance you're expected to carry goods before you can get a bag for them.

 

[Miss Chicken]

At the biggest shopping centre in Tasmania there is only one escalator and one inclined moving walkway. This shopping centre only has two floors. There is no public elevator and no stairs.

Maybe that Taiwanese building needs some of those musical stairs that they have in Sweden (?) and Japan. People can play music with their feet as they go up and down the stairs.