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Come Inside... => Saloon Bar => Topic started by: Pastis on March 22, 2009, 05:04:04 PM

Title: Escalators
Post by: Pastis on March 22, 2009, 05:04:04 PM

A quick bit of research tells me that escalators have been around for about 120 years, so not an entirely new phenomenon then you would think.  ::)
So how much intelligence is required to figure out that there might be someone behind you, and it's really not a good idea to dump your worldly belongings on the floor at the end of the escalator and regroup, causing those behind you to hop, skip and triple jump their way to safety?  evil:
I narrowly avoided getting my foot hooked in the handle of a bag of laundry and flying face down on the floor whilst noticing that the woman responsible for this was looking surprised that so many others were darting about trying to avoid her.
 cussing:

Title: Re: Escalators
Post by: Miss Demeanour on March 22, 2009, 05:06:30 PM

But at least they were not drinking on the move though eh  whistle:

Title: Re: Escalators
Post by: Barman on March 22, 2009, 05:08:03 PM

Grrrrrrrr!

See also: People at 'Arrivals' at the airport, stopping with their trolley to kiss the 'Greeters' and blocking every other fucker in the terminal behind them!  Explode:

Title: Re: Escalators
Post by: Pastis on March 22, 2009, 05:11:28 PM

Quote from: Miss Demeanor on March 22, 2009, 05:06:30 PM

But at least they were not drinking on the move though eh  whistle:

"Drinkers on the move"  rubschin: Now there's a thread  eveilgrin:

TBH it was a minor blemish in an alarmingly interesting day. TFL is not the best at weekends currently... and they lie  evil:

Title: Re: Escalators
Post by: Miss Demeanour on March 22, 2009, 05:13:21 PM

See also : some brain damaged bint in Argos yesterday who had bought a month's worth of shopping in Sainsbury's then popped into Argos to buy a tartan shopping trolley as it was too much to carry home  noooo:

She dumped the orange plastic bags in the middle of the floor whilst taking her package to the corner of the shop to put together ...people were tripping up , kicking her shopping etc . Did she move it - did she heck as like  noooo:

Title: Re: Escalators
Post by: Miss Demeanour on March 22, 2009, 05:14:38 PM

Quote from: Pastis on March 22, 2009, 05:11:28 PM

"Drinkers on the move"  rubschin: Now there's a thread  eveilgrin:
TBH it was a minor blemish in an alarmingly interesting day. TFL is not the best at weekends currently... and they lie  evil:

Weekend travelling in London is a farce - I pity the tourist who looks at the map and think they can go from A to B on one simple trip  noooo:

Title: Re: Escalators
Post by: Pastis on March 22, 2009, 05:18:31 PM

Well, I'm kind of glad that I managed to see ExCel before the terrorists blow it up at the G20 summit. Anyone been there? It's a strange place  rubschin:

Title: Re: Escalators
Post by: Miss Demeanour on March 22, 2009, 09:34:14 PM

Been there once .....mahoosive and disorganised were my abiding memories - not sure if that was me or the venue either  lol: