Escalators
Does this count as irrational?

I have a deep and abiding belief that escalators are supposed to speed up moving through crowded areas. I think that if you are stood on one, you should walk up the steps instead of waiting for the machine to haul your fat ass to the next floor.

I know that 90% percent of people would rather just stand there, right in front of me, while I fume and tut and roll my eyes and sometimes let out a little exasperated groan (I don't go shopping very often), but somehow I can't shake the belief that the device would be pointless if all it did was move people upstairs at half their normal walking speed, and therefore (surely) you're supposed to walk up them.

Worse is when you're stood on one of the extra-wide ones like in my local Marks & Spencer, and the person in front of you has his hands on both banisters (and is bending down a little to do this) even though there is nobody ahead of him, so you tut and groan and call him a cunt under your breath but just loud enough for him to hear, then he turns round and it turns out he's the manager, and even though he sheepishly lets you go past, somehow you feel like the cunt just because you've put your perceived efficiency of moving through a department store above the feelings of another human being.

Yeah, I fucking hate that.
(leviticus no longer likes the cut of your gib on, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 15:21, 8 replies)

what about the cunts on travelators at airports who think they were designed for people to have a rest while walking??
Just stood there like idiots with their bags blocking the way past. Shower of shits the lot of them.
( sneep used to date Freddie Starr's hamster, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 15:24, closed)

Travelators are for walking backwards on, so that you go nowhere.
Never fails to amuse me.

I'm really not sure what their true purpose is. Couldn't they just have built less airport?
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 15:44, closed)

Less airport lolz
hahaha. I'm totally stealing that.
(leviticus no longer likes the cut of your gib on, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 15:50, closed)

It makes some people feel sick.
I can't walk on them. If I have to use them, I stand stock still. I figure people would rather have to wait behind me (or walk past, as they often do because I leave a gap) than be covered in my vomit. =p
( vix0r was not Matthew on, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 16:13, closed)

I know what you mean
and don't get me started on ones that go down...
(An Alien sneezed on Bill Oddies binoculars, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 17:44, closed)

Yes, yes, yes
Quite often on the underground there are crowds of people queuing to get onto an escalator comprised of only around 20 sodding steps. Queuing. They'll wait 10 minutes patiently in line rather than simply walking up the fucker.
( rofl harris, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 16:47, closed)

I once saw a stand-up comedian who was talking about moving to London
and the thing that weirded him out most was people walking up escalators - as far as he was concerned, escalators take you there anyway, while London people use them like mushrooms in MarioKart
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 16:56, closed)

I still laugh at my missus who was about 28 the first time she experienced a travelator
she got all scared and really didn't know what to do and for the first 5 or 6 times took a bit of a run up and jumped each time she used one. Lol rofl pmsl etc
(Wagane, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 17:06, closed)