using escalators.

tkachev

Does anyone have trouble using escalators?I find them so scary.If I step on I am frightened my other leg will get left behind which would be agony,and I am unsteady and slow.
I would rather use the stairs nowadays.
Am I alone in this?
Tkachev

skezier

Hi TK,

I am right there with you on them things..... Mind we don't have them down here..... The only one I knew about was in Woolies and I always took the stairs.

Hey you and I will be useless if they ever make the people carrying foot paths Cris x

debatat

I find escalators very tricky to use, I am unsteady on my feet. I dread them!!! Between my vertigo, stiffness and arthritis it is a miracle I can get on them at all!!

Deb

kathbee

I agree, very dodgy indeed, but for me the steps arent an option, prefer lifts although slightly claustrophobic.

Luckily I dont come across the escalators very often.

Kath

justinbarrow

They are not nice things to use more so when you have the aches and pains aswell. I find that some big tesco stores and have escalators but they are not the step typle more like a convaier belt so you can get your trolly on...much more easier.

lindalegs

I hate escalators and won't use them - I'm afraid of tripping and the thought of getting caught up on metal moving stairs sends a shudder through my bones.

I only use lifts - if there isn't a lift I'll tackle the stairs or not bother. If it was a choice of go on an escalator or die I'd say pass me the gun. :shock:

Luv Legs

wendylou

tkachev wrote:

Does anyone have trouble using escalators?I find them so scary.If I step on I am frightened my other leg will get left behind which would be agony,and I am unsteady and slow.
I would rather use the stairs nowadays.
Am I alone in this?
Tkachev

Hello here is your mate im'e exactly the same on those scary things i stand at the bottom waiting to get on and i say to myself get ready as i watch the stairs going up or down and an tend to give a little jump on after much hesitation i am terified of falling on them especially as my little 3 year old grandaughter had a minute piece of leather hanging of her boot had hold of her mother's hand and even that managed to get caught and she broke her ankle, so you see they are dangerous. Wendylou

woodbon

Hi I've never liked them, especially coming down, looking across the store with nothing much to hold on to terrifies me :roll: And getting on and getting off always has been hard! I remember a sort of moving pavement at Paris airport. We came off a big plane and when we got to the top, the area was to small for all the people and you were pushed into a crowd waiting by the desk - very scary. :shock: Love Sue

page35

Hi
i prefere the escalators to lifts, i am scared the lift will get stuck and no one will know im there,or it will take ages for firemen to get me out. i dont like closed in spaces.
page x

jaspercat

Hi, I haven't had to use escalators since I left London, but I am petrified of them, I used to be scared that one of my legs would get left behind love Jaspercatxx

duskstar

Glad to hear I'm not the only one!! I hate the damn things!

joyful164

Two stores where I live have escalators and they never use to bother me. Like a lot of you I seem to have lost my rythem on them and now start dithering waiting to step on or off.. It's a problems because my ankle keeps locking solid when I walk. I don't know if anyone has this problems. It happened this evening - very painful and sore. Now that has happened a couple of times just as I was about to step off an escalator and it made me miss my step so i went sprawling. Felt such a fool. I would rather risk a lift. I do not like stairs much, I will use them if there is no other way,but they just mess with my hips and they start locking. Not much good am I. Perhaps I shall just not go out.

joy

elnafinn

I use them if I have to, and when travelling on the underground there is often no other way to get onto a platform and out again. I am not too keen on lifts unless I am with someone. At the moment my order of preference are stairs although not kind on my knees, escalators and lastly lifts. I am sure with age and ailments progressing I may well have to review this order of preference.

Luv
Elna x

sharmaine

Hi Tkachev
I don't mind escalators. I have to judge things just right though as I have to hold on the rail and position my walking stick just right. My husband has other ideas and makes me use the lift! He says I'm an accident waiting to happen!!!

I have real problems with stairs - especially coming down.

Sharmaine

tkachev wrote:

Does anyone have trouble using escalators?I find them so scary.If I step on I am frightened my other leg will get left behind which would be agony,and I am unsteady and slow.
I would rather use the stairs nowadays.
Am I alone in this?
Tkachev

tkachev

Well I am certainly not alone.How funny is that?They put them there to make life easier and we poor souls have terrible problems with them.
I used to like them but then started to dither and stutter and now I get all prepared but give up as I just cant get co ordinated!
I also hate lifts unless I have someone with me and even then I am really panicking.It is the stairs for me everytime even when I am struggling and in pain!
Take care all
Tkachev

oneday

tkachev wrote:

Well I am certainly not alone.How funny is that?They put them there to make life easier and we poor souls have terrible problems with them.
I used to like them but then started to dither and stutter and now I get all prepared but give up as I just cant get co ordinated!
I also hate lifts unless I have someone with me and even then I am really panicking.It is the stairs for me everytime even when I am struggling and in pain!
Take care all
Tkachev

Hi
I have a bit of a judgement problem or timing problem when to get on them and i usually miss a couple of steps until i get the rhythm. Also dont like it when they have stopped working and you walk down them as the silver makes my eyes funny.
As for the moving belts you stand on the angle of those hurts my back.

dachshund

Hi i wont even try them as i wobble when i walk and if i have my stick i look bad enough i'm sure people think i'm drunk. i only drink tea and coffee but they dont know that.
and lifts are out unless there is some one else.
the stairs are getting bad.
so i ask at the desk if some kind person will get what ever for me.
joan xx

maud48

I hate getting on ones going down, don't mind them going up. There's some really long ones on London Underground which really frighten me going down, I feel as if I'm going to falll forwards. If I'm with someone I always get them to stand in front of me, otherwise I try to stand behind soemone who is taller than me (as close as I dare without getting arrested!)
maud

maud48

Just thought of a funny story about escalators.
Years ago when our youngest children were 5,4 and 2 we were travelling by plane and had to change at an airport and go down a very long escalator (we'd been living in a very remote place in Africa and they'd never seen one before). We were rushing to catch the next plane but they were terrified, screaming and wouldn't go near it.
We had to sit down on the ground and try to explain to them that it wasn't magic and that it wouldn't eat them.
They still weren't convinced so eventually we had to carry them screaming and fighting onto it, plus all our luggage.
Needless to say we missed the plane
maud

lindalegs

Is it me or do they go really fast these days? :?

Luv Legs

lindalegs

collywobble wrote:

Hi

Legs, don't you think EVERYTHING moves faster these days? :?

I don't mind escalators so much, but the scariest things I ever tried were the paternoster lifts - just an open compartment which goes up and down in a big loop - you step into it as it's still moving!! They used to have them years ago at a place I worked. Don't know if they are still used - I would say they they are a real hazard!

Lynn xxxx

I refuse to get into or onto things whilst they're moving - I even got them to stop the London Eye whilst I got on :oops: :oops: - they must've realised I was royalty

Luv Queen Legs