You are on the first floor of the mall and you need to get to a store on the second floor. How do you get up there?
A. Stairs
B. Elevator
C. Escalator
D. Whichever is closest
If you chose A, B, or sometimes D, that makes sense.
If you chose C, who are you? Evel Knievel?
Pertinent historical fact: I was dropped on an escalator as a child.
A. Stairs. I work on the 5th floor of my building (7 total floors) and I use the stairs as much as I can. It's not a "phobia," but I don't fully trust the elevators and I don't like being in "crowded situations," so it's usually the stairs for me.
shareOkay. I will put you in the column of people most likely to survive their trip to the mall.
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I think I'd rather take the stairs or the elevator...
https://youtu.be/RopMEE2RCFg?si=5M55nnb-aKZ6uPsA&t=2101
Malls typically have escalators handy, so take a guess.
At my local Macy's going to the second floor by anything other than escalator is an inconvenience. I think mall elevators are notoriously slow (and tucked away somewhere and hard to find).
Why the next thing I know, you'll be telling me you're going to jump the Grand Canyon with a motorcycle!
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Just for you, fourlemons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRb7F-WdlZQ
Thank you. All this escalator talk is giving me the vapors.
shareI take the stairs as often as possible for the physical activity. I do the same with escalators; I'll climb them like stairs.
I will take elevators if it's a high-rise or whatnot.
Can you give more details on what happened when you were dropped? That sounds horrifying.
So you climb escalators like stairs. Hmmm. That's going to put you in a extreme daredevil sports category of your own. I'll have to think on the exact name.
It happened when I was a very young child, so young that my recollection is quite vague, but to hear my mother tell the story she was holding my baby sister in one arm and holding my hand as she went down the escalator. I don't remember if she lost her footing or what but she let go of my hand and I went tumbling part way down the escalator. She did not let go of my sister.
Yikes! That does sound scary.
I'm scared of extreme heights -- like being on the top floor of a skyscraper -- so I totally get it. I discovered a few years ago that fear of escalators is actually pretty common.
Have you heard of exposure therapy? Seems to have solid results for overcoming some fears.
https://youtu.be/hkCQy1rchRE?si=C9HOZdOv3I-8Ke-Q
I'm glad you can understand and thanks for that information. 🙂 I am familiar with exposure therapy.
One piece of good news is that there are some escalators I can go up- those skinny ones that are one person wide where I can hold on on both sides- those are fine. It's just the wider ones like you find at shopping malls where I can't hold on with both hands that are terrifying.
As an additional piece of information it is nearly impossible to get out of the Washington DC Metro system without taking a very tall and wide escalator. It's a wonder I'm not still down there to this day, but that's another story. 😂