It's such a PSA on safety I think.
It used to annoy me because only old people use stair railings on staircases in reality.
Although I admit it does look like quite a dangerous staircase
I'm wearing a tuxedo for no apparent reason.
When I see the Brady kids holding onto the railings I think of hand sanitizer. Was that popular back in the '70s? I don't recall seeing it, but that doesn't mean it didn't exist.
Fun alternatives would have been:
1. A chairlift
2. Going down the stairs in a laundry basket (though this is very painful)
3. Having the boys challenge each other to climb up the back side of the stairs (more fun than that chinup bar!)
Bobby makes it all the way to the top, but can't get down. Mike is summoned from his den and is visibly annoyed at the boys for the zany hijinx. Alice gets the ladder and saves the day, all the while apologizing to Mr. Brady.
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Well from what I've seen in my life so far is that I don't see many children holding onto handrails when using stairs.
And I also see lots of parents telling their kids NOT to use the handrails because of germs and disease exposure. None of my younger cousins use the hand railings and they are aged from 10 as the eldest and 3 as the youngest. They just go up and down and hope for the best
"And I'm wearing a tuxedo for no apparent reason."
I never held the stair railing until the time that I fell down some stairs and sprained my ankle, now I always hold the railing.
shareI fell hard the stairs at my school as a kid because I wasn't holding on to the railing. I now do it every time and make sure my kids do too. It takes one falls to learn that lesson.
shareYeah. It was winter and I was leaving a friend's house and slid on some ice that had accumulated on their porch and slid down the concrete stairs, hitting ever stair on the way down with my posterior region. Not fun...
shareKids especially back then would have been sliding down the railings.
shareMaybe in your house growing up you didn't but when I lived in a two story apartment as a child I always used the railing to balance my descent.
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