Escalators

[Mr. Beanz]

Use the handrail or no?

I  don't. I Use it no hands practicing balance. I do feel a little wobbly once or twice along the way but I  make it. 😄

[Wilbur ★]

They don't require hands or brains.  

[dinneR ★]

Anyone know how many escalators there are in the state of WY? 

[Mr. Beanz]

3 minutes ago, dinneR said:

Anyone know how many escalators there are in the state of WY? 

2 ? 😃

[dinneR ★]

2 minutes ago, Mr. Beanz said:

2 ? 😃

bingo

 

[Wilbur ★]

1 minute ago, dinneR said:

bingo

 

One up, one down? 

[dinneR ★]

2 minutes ago, Wilbur said:

One up, one down? 

Ok, four if you count like a Canadian. 

Both are in banks in Casper.

[dinneR ★]

We don't need no stinking escalators.

Alas, they didn't. Understanding the gravity of such journalism, The Atlantic descended on Wyoming and found that there are still only two (well, four, if you count each ascending and descending set of stairs as one). Both bays are in Casper buildings, at the First National Bank and the Hilltop National Bank.

That's 0.000003467 escalators per capita, according to the magazine's run of the 2012 population numbers.

[ChrisL]

It depends but not normally.  When I was traveling recently I nearly ate sheot on the tram as there was no place to stand near a pole/hand rail.  Escalators don’t give me trouble though. 

[groupw]

Sometimes but not normally. 

[Thaddeus Kosciuszko]

3 hours ago, dinneR said:

That's 0.000003467 escalators per capita

That's actually pretty impressive.

I've never seen anyone calculate escalators per capita out to nine decimal places before.

Math is the best!

[Ralphie ★]

So The Escalator of Life is snot a real popular song there ahspose. 

[Razors Edge ★]

10 hours ago, Mr. Beanz said:

Use the handrail or no?

I  don't. I Use it no hands practicing balance. I do feel a little wobbly once or twice along the way but I  make it. 😄

Huh????  Totally confused by this one.  Do you have balance issues to work on?

Escalators have one simple rule - stand right, walk left.  I'm not sure, for people with standard balance, that using the railing is necessary. In the rare situations I am 1) using an escalator (I'll choose the stairs if given an option) and 2) standing on an escalator, I might play with the little fringe near the bottom by using it to buff my shoes   Otherwise it is walk up/down like normal.

[Mr. Beanz]

43 minutes ago, Razors Edge said:

Huh????  Totally confused by this one.  Do you have balance issues to work on?

Escalators have one simple rule - stand right, walk left.  I'm not sure, for people with standard balance, that using the railing is necessary. In the rare situations I am 1) using an escalator (I'll choose the stairs if given an option) and 2) standing on an escalator, I might play with the little fringe near the bottom by using it to buff my shoes   Otherwise it is walk up/down like normal.

No balance issues,  just a little game I like to play.  You never know when they will jersey. Heck, the set at the mall are broken down 3 times a week..😄

[maddmaxx ★]

I put a hand on the handrail and try to see how much faster the hand travels than my feet.

[Further]

A fun challenge is to run up the down escalator 

[Mr. Beanz]

29 minutes ago, maddmaxx said:

I put a hand on the handrail and try to see how much faster the hand travels than my feet.

Ha ha ha I forgot about that one. 

[ChrisL]

6 hours ago, Philander Seabury said:

So The Escalator of Life is snot a real popular song there ahspose. 

Totally forgot about that song!  Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

 

[MickinMD ★]

13 hours ago, Mr. Beanz said:

Use the handrail or no?

I  don't. I Use it no hands practicing balance. I do feel a little wobbly once or twice along the way but I  make it. 😄

I usually use the handrail, particularly when stepping on or off.

[Mr. Beanz]

27 minutes ago, MickinMD said:

I usually use the handrail, particularly when stepping on or off.

 But that is the fun part of the escalators. I usually get in surfboard position for the mount and dismount, no hands.😄

[Kirby]

Not usually, especially the escalators in the subway system.

[12string]

2 hours ago, maddmaxx said:

I put a hand on the handrail and try to see how much faster the hand travels than my feet.

You can control that.  Just by pulling on the rail.  Really hard.  Really fast.  Watch people fall.  You should also lose your balance.  Not from poor balance, but to make it look like it wasn't you.

[dinneR ★]

Two hands works best.

 

[Zephyr]

The real question should be "When stepping on an escalator do you continue to walk up or down the stairs or just suddenly stop and ride it up,  blocking the way for normal people who want to keep walking?"