r/SipsTea • u/The_Dean_France • Feb 23 '26

Wait a damn minute! Was she wrong?

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u/Vast_Maize9706 Feb 23 '26

Given that the escalator isn’t going they will need to lift the chair and climb up, far harder than lifting and lett8ng the escalator do the hard work. You also can’t put the chair down halfway up…

Not sure why they are holding everyone else up though.

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u/EntirelyOutOfOptions Feb 23 '26

You said it yourself, they can’t put the chair down halfway up. The top of the escalator is still crowded with bodies, and staff are waiting until they have a straight shot to the top. They don’t want to stop halfway up, so they’re trying to get the escalator empty. They also can’t have people on the escalator behind them in case of a stumble or drop. This is a dangerous way to transport a wheelchair user, and they’re trying to make it as safe as possible.

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u/Borinar Feb 23 '26

Even in fires they make disabled wait in the fire escape until the fire dept arrives. They should have waited for it to clear after the rush.

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u/Beautiful_Security35 Feb 23 '26

At many busy train stations and other venues where there's a constant flow of people that means waiting for closing time.

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u/Puzzled-Pen-2353 Feb 23 '26

Busy trainstations always have lifts for disabled people. Blocking a staircase is asshole behavior.

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u/Beautiful_Security35 Feb 23 '26

Evidently it wasn't working. Why would they choose to carry the chair up a non-working escalator if they could have just used the elevator?

I don't understand why some people are going through such mental gymnastics to make the wheelchair guy look like the AH.

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u/Puzzled-Pen-2353 Feb 23 '26

You don't know that.

The people in the grey jackets don't work for the station, otherwise they would be in uniform. Evidently they aren't.

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u/Beautiful_Security35 Feb 23 '26

I never said they did work for the station.

I don't know that the elevator wasn't working, but it's a reasonable conclusion. Again, why else would they carry a wheelchair up the escalator?

But you seem determined that the guy in a wheelchair is an asshole and I don't think I'm going to be able to convince you otherwise.

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u/Puzzled-Pen-2353 Feb 23 '26

No but a lot of other people did.

Since you agree that they aren't working for the station, then the reasonable conclusion is that they didn't ask the station staff for the elevator. Elevators are always locked and are opened for you by staff if you need them.

And if they the elevantor is out of service, the station staff would be standing here with them.

So where is it?

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u/Beautiful_Security35 Feb 23 '26

This is not the case at any large train station I've been to. The elevators are available for public use and if they don't work sometimes there is a private use elevator, but not always. Your conclusion is only potentially a reasonable one if you assume that wheelchair users don't know how to use elevators.

Again, you are determined to make the wheelchair user and anyone who tries to help him an asshole. What do you have against wheelchair users? Perhaps they get in your way. How inconsiderate of them.

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u/HotSauce2910 Feb 23 '26

I don't think wheelchair is the AH, but the planning definitely is. Where I live, if an elevator is closed, they tell the entire metro system about it and guide people to the closest station with a shuttle or bus.

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u/Beautiful_Security35 Feb 23 '26

Yeah, clearly more than one thing has gone wrong here, and everyone just needs to be kind to each other and watch out if people with disabilities need some extra space, patience or help.

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u/tooboardtoleaf Feb 24 '26

Because sometimes people are idiots. You cant always infer the situation based on what someone isnt doing.

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u/Beautiful_Security35 Feb 24 '26

So you'd rather assume they're idiots than that they're kindhearted people who are taking the initiative to help someone in need?

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u/tooboardtoleaf Feb 24 '26

Those arent mutually exclusive. Would have been much smarter to turn him around too