Question your opinion on elevators/lifts

[FADEC]

I think about them in the same way I think about escalators: useful for old and feeble persons, for disabled persons and for wheelchairs and buggies, and for something like removals. But dispensable for healthy and fit persons. I don't use them. Most of them are slower than my legs anyway. Especially the city escalators and elevators which help contributing adiposity after people had a lunch at Burger King and are too tired to use the stairs.

Funny: as a kid I liked to jump in them or try to open the door. They always got stuck, if I did just jump and not use the stop switch, and my parents always were afraid :lol:

 

[PennyBlack]

I love elevators. It's not that I'm lazy because I also love running up stairs. I'm the "should have a giant mouse wheel on my wall" type.

Elevators elevate me to new hieghts and give me a buzz, especially when they come to a stop from speed. Like the effects of a ferris wheel as you peak over the top. I know I'm safe in an elevator because of the mechanisms involved that prevents you from dropping. And I'm not worried about being stuck in one either, which happened a few times in a perticular block of flats with just over 20 stories. Funny really, because I didn't live there, nor did I have any friends in the block, but was the tallest building in my city and I wanted to ride it.

That Elevator surfing looks a little to dangerous for me though, I like the outer shell a little to much.

 

[iamwearingpants]

I love elevators. I have horrible physical stamina (I get out of breath walking up my my house's 3rd floor) so elevators are really convenient. I also love the acceleration in them the same way I love rollercoasters.

Escalators are cool too, especially when I get bored and go up the down one :lol:
Once someone called security on me :shifty:

 

[Blacklight]

Elevators and lifts are a godsend to people like me with bad knees.

 

[steph]

no fear of heights for me - it's falling from them that scares me

I still can't figure whether fear of heights equals fear of falling or not. Perhaps it varies from person to person. I love high views and panoramas, but as you, the thought of plunging down from there makes me want to stay well away from the edge. And I can't understand how some people seem to have no problem going right to the edge of a cliff in normal walking mode.

 

[RichWall]

When it comes to flatulence, an escalator is preferred.

 

[garyw]

I still can't figure whether fear of heights equals fear of falling or not.

I have no fear of heights. The ground scares me from time to time as its the 'hello!' with the ground after the fall thats the nasty bit.

 

[mojoey]

i take it you dont like skydiving?

 

[Keatah]

They should put emergency JATO's on elevators...

I don't hear too much about falling elevators. Is this something that is kept quiet? Or is it something that simply doesn't happen often?

---------- Post added at 06:54 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:53 PM ----------

When it comes to flatulence, an escalator is preferred.

..that way you can blow a good one and spread it between two levels. Share the wealth!

 

[Izack]

Share the wealth!

This'll have me laughing all day. :rofl:

 

[diogom]

This'll have me laughing all day. :rofl:

I think I might never ride on crowded elevators/lifts again...

How did a normal topic like this get this hilarious? :rofl: