re: Admit it: You freak out when you're about to step off an escalator

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I generally don't have a problem with them but the down escalators at ATL airport are long and steep and not friendly with roller board luggage.

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I almost killed myself in the Orlando airport doing that

where's the gif of the guy carrying the board on the escalator?

why didn't those people hit the emergency stop button?

guess they panicked

Escalator Story No. 1

In law school, roommate and I are at a department store when a little kid ends up by himself on the escalator, and he falls down. Roommate did a quick rescue that involved going the wrong way on the escalator.

Escalator Story No. 2

There was (and maybe is) an escalator in downtown Houston with angled mirrored surfaces along the bottom. A perv could get a free show if he was on the stairs beneath a hot woman in a short skirt going up the elevator.

Escalator Story 2(a)

They canned a Shreveport security guard for browsing up women's skirts as they rode up an escalator with polished brass angled bases. They also changed to a non-reflective base.

The "base" is the angled part on each side of the stairs. Example:

Actually every year in NYC at least a few people are killed when the elevator unexpectedly closed or drops without the door closing.

Shear forces are powerful and not friendly to human flesh/bones.

I don't freak out but sometimes I find myself thinking about how I'm about to move my feet so that I don't take a face dive.

In this age of technology, how have they not figured out how to make the handrail match the speed of the escalator.

Honestly, stepping on is more freaky, stepping off doesn't bother me.