The following Dodgers have been smited by the JDK for their crimes against Jam:
All the girls! for picking on the JDK and damaging his already delicate self esteem!
The Basserd Who Nicked Copper's Stuff For the offense of nicking Copper's stuff. You are a tw*t, whoever you are and we all hope you get run over by a tram in Nottingham. Or Liverpool. Or whereever else they have trams!
Copper For the crime of playing with her Wii instead of her Jammie pals!
Ever see these people who are apparently freaked out when they get on an escalator? They stand there and watch 3 or 4 steps go by before they carefully merge on to the moving stairs.
There seems to be a specific demographic that's especially prone to this sort of paranoia!
Then there are people like me that jump on so that my feet are split between two stairs and wait to see which stair I end up on when they split apart and "become stairs". I am such a dork
I always used to surf the escalator in my building. It was cool. One escalator going up about 3 storeys. And I looked very cool while I was escalator surfing. Very cool.
NateO wrote: Ever see these people who are apparently freaked out when they get on an escalator? They stand there and watch 3 or 4 steps go by before they carefully merge on to the moving stairs. There seems to be a specific demographic that's especially prone to this sort of paranoia!
I was stuck behind the very kind of person you are talking about the other day coming out of Penn Station - because they had upped our transit system to warning level orange they closed 3 of the escalators so there was only one left going up - and a ginormous line formed (). This woman just could not make herself get on the escalator - you'd see her sort of step forward, then pull her foot back, 3 or 4 times all the while people are getting annoyed behind her. I almost pushed her onto them.
Ever see these people who are apparently freaked out when they get on an escalator? They stand there and watch 3 or 4 steps go by before they carefully merge on to the moving stairs.
I saw this again today! Can't believe it! Blows my mind every time!
Ok, sort of. I don't care about up escalators really, but I will watch a step or two go by on the down escalators before I step on them. I believe this is caused by...
1. My fear of heights.. well, not so much the heights themselves, but more falling to my death from a height
2. When I was a kid, my mother would always yell at me to step off the escalator fast because my shoelaces could get caught and then my feet would get sucked under. (Really... she said it.)
So uh yeah. If I were to ever go on fear factor, they can just forget about the bugs and stuff. Just put me on a down escalator and I'd lose.
I have borne witness to And's escalator fear... but at least she does the rest of us a favor and just takes the stairs - she doesn't sit there debating for 20 minutes
NateO wrote: Rule? I thought maybe she's breaking the rule, in terms of age, at least... So, have you ever just pushed her on to an escalator, then, Jackie? -- Edited by NateO at 23:36, 2005-08-18
No, I'm not that mean - I just ridicule her mercilessly.
Hmmm I just had a thought - Mandie, when I lived on Roosevelt Island - when you came out of the subway station - did you walk up all those stairs or take the escalator?
To get out of that station it was one short and two very long escalators to get out..it's the deepest subway station in NYC
i was in NYC a couple of months ago and rode the tube quite often.. how deep those things went really freaked me out actually.. like you could hear multiple trains rumbling past overhead.. eeep
Hmmm I just had a thought - Mandie, when I lived on Roosevelt Island - when you came out of the subway station - did you walk up all those stairs or take the escalator? To get out of that station it was one short and two very long escalators to get out..it's the deepest subway station in NYC
Escalator most likely. The up escalators don't bother me.
On the way down I don't remember... but I think I was with Eric at the time and he's a lot nicer about my phobia than you :)
). This woman just could not make herself get on the escalator - you'd see her sort of step forward, then pull her foot back, 3 or 4 times all the while people are getting annoyed behind her. I almost pushed her onto them. 
