On behalf of my other half.
When travelling in front of a crowd of people on an escalator or other moving walkway, basic logic should tell you that if you suddenly slow down when you leave then several of the aforementioned people will plough into the back of you.

They cannot slow down, for their speed is determined by the machinery on which they stand. You are familiar with this machinery. It has deposited you where you now stand. Note that I typed 'stand', which is what you are doing when you should be getting out of the accursed way.

Do not, therefore, contrive to appear wronged when you are shoved bodily out of the way, hopefully into some form of mincing apparatus.
(ThomsonsPier consumes, Tue 6 May 2008, 14:18, Reply)