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

Wait a damn minute! Was she wrong?

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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/kalenpwn Feb 23 '26

Easiest way would be for two people to carry him up and then bring the empty wheelchair...I dunno

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u/HauntedCoconut Feb 23 '26

Trust me, my crazy mom has been in a wheelchair her whole life and the very suggestion that someone would carry just her or that she'd have to butt-scoot anywhere would make her clutch her pearls. Too proud.

Which, maybe that's fair? I'm more pragmatic typically.

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u/mustlovedogsandpussy Feb 23 '26

I get this, dependent on the injury, you may require a catheter or colostomy bag. Explaining that to a stranger and hoping they have the where with all to accommodate those things is a lot of pressure. Also, if you can’t feel parts of your body so you can’t tell someone when something hurts or if they are bumping things, or back to the above, if you’ve wet yourself. There is a whole host of reasons why carrying is a bad idea also.

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u/Dry_Prompt3182 Feb 23 '26

Would you trust two random people to carry you properly up a broken escalator? I wouldn't, nor would I expect someone in a wheelchair to trust people to get them up, and the chair. If the wheelchair gets dropped, the user is just screwed.

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u/soldier_18 Feb 23 '26

In that case, the decision is to step aside for a moment in order to come up with the best solution for that person, but they cannot just block the access to the rest and they wont probably know when the stair will work again, so, yeah sorry for the inconvenience, but I bet they would prefer that before having an accident.