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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2011 21:28:13 GMT
I saw exactly the same thing in Sun City, South Africa, with a tribal African woman, who was fascinated and terrified. I really wanted to help her go up, but I just didn't feel authorized to do so.
But we really need to help any of these people that we encounter.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on May 15, 2011 7:39:20 GMT
I have a 37 years old niece who will not use them...shopping expeditions can get quite tiring as we have to plod up stairs or wait for lifts (which imo are worse)
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2011 10:31:06 GMT
I remember reading some anecdote about the very first department store escalator at the end of the 19th century. I think it was in London (but it may have been New York). Nobody dared take the escalator, so the store paid a peg-legged man to ride up and down the escalators all day, but people still were not using the device. It was finally noticed that a peg-legged man was perhaps not the best advertisement when a mother was overheard telling her child "see what happens to you if you get on those things!"
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Post by onlymark on May 15, 2011 16:26:22 GMT
On arrival at Amman airport last week I followed through the arrival hall a group of Sri Lankan girls/women who were being led by a Jordanian man. At the first escalator we came to the man told the group to take it if they knew how to use it, otherwise take the steps.
They all took the steps.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 17, 2011 3:25:50 GMT
Oh, I wanted to clap for the poor guy!
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Post by Don Cuevas on May 17, 2011 16:22:01 GMT
As a kid, I enjoyed walking the wrong way on the escalator. Like Up on a Down escalator. Now I just hold tight to the rail.
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