Stairs or elevator

[Vulcan Princess]

I live in a third floor apartment. I almost always take the stairs, unless I'm injured or carrying something large. I've noticed that most of my neighbors take the elevator.

What about you? Do you take the stairs, or do you prefer the elevator?

 

[Kestra]

I'll take the stairs up to like, five flights. Otherwise it's the elevator for me! Exceptions would be like you said, if I'm carrying something, or if my back is giving me grief and I'm already in a lot of pain.

 

[John Clark]

Typically, I'll take the stairs unless carrying oversized or heavy stuff.

 

[Geckothan]

I don't live in an apartment, but in buildings with elevators, I usually stick with stairs.

 

[Adm_Hawthorne]

I'm lazy. I take the elevator unless the fire alarm is going off.

 

[RoJoHen]

I will go up 3-4 flights of stairs. After that I prefer an elevator.

I will go down many more flights of stairs.

 

[Mallory]

I'll take the stairs if it's only one floor, that's about all I can handle. More than that and I'll be on the elevator.

 

[auntiehill]

Gosh, I lived in a 3rd floor apartment for years, but it didn't have an elevator. I had no choice but to hoof it, on the outdoor staircase, rain or shine. But moving day was a BITCH.

If it's only a flight or two, I'll take the stairs. I lazy as hell but I also have no patience, so it's quicker just to walk. But if I'm tired or my back is out, I'll take the elevator.

 

[Kirby]

I will go up 3-4 flights of stairs. After that I prefer an elevator.

I will go down many more flights of stairs.

^ This.

I currently work on the 2nd floor of a building and the stairs are just faster than waiting around for the elevator.
When I worked in a high rise, I was on the 4th floor, so I usually took the stairs. Sometimes for fun, I would take the elevator to the top floor, which I believe was the 46th floor and walk all the way down. That was actually a good little workout.

 

[Jonas Grumby]

One or two floors, I'll take whichever is handiest to get to.

Three or four floors, I'd probably still take the stairs if there was a crowd waiting for the elevator.

I once lived in a third-floor apartment - no elevator - and trudging up and down three flights of stairs every time I went out did get to be a boring grind.

 

[Nathan_Heller]

I have arthritis in my lower limbs and use a cane. Taking elevators are a must for me.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I also have arthritis. Stairs are the bane of my life. I have more problems going down stairs than going up stairs. If I am feeling up to it I might take stairs up one or maybe two flights. However I always take an elevator down.

 

[JarodRussell]

Why, I usually fly through the window.

 

[M'Sharak]

Going by myself, I'll take the stairs, more often than not. The last few years, though, I'm often pushing a wheelchair, so the elevator it is.

 

[trekkiedane]

3 - 4 flights and I'll look for the stairs, more than five and I'd definitely take the lift.

But it's only on rare occasions that I find myself in a building with elevators anyway.

 

[Kelthaz]

I voted for the first option, but it's really more like 3-5 flights of stairs.

 

[scotpens]

Why, I usually fly through the window.

Sounds like a lot of guys I know from West Hollywood.

I've never lived more than one floor up. In a commercial building, I'll usually take the stairs if it's no more than three floors up or down. It always amuses me to see apparently healthy, able-bodied people waiting around for the elevator when the stairs would be faster. Must be force of habit -- like drivers who'll wait for three light changes to make a left turn when it would take less time to go to the next intersection, hang a U-turn, and then make a right.

 

[B.J.]

I've been living in hotels for the past month or so (business travel), and I would love to take the stairs. Unfortunately, the way most hotels are designed, the stairs are usually in the far corners, and a lot of times they're connected to the fire alarms. Just standing there waiting for the elevator, especially if I'm only a flight or two up, is just annoying.

 

[PlainSimpleJoel]

When I use to live in Sydney, the only option was stairs to a third floor apartment. So it was the stairs. Now I live on a house.

 

[B.J.]

Now I live on a house.

So, are you not allowed indoors?