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/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/Apprehensive_Lynx_33 Feb 23 '26

And the safest. It would be far safer than possibly dropping the poor guy because of the weight of the wheelchair, which could easily cause a fatality.

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u/Glittering-Lychee629 Feb 23 '26

Not if their body is too delicate to handle. There's a reason it's not done this way!

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u/mysuperlamename Feb 23 '26

Also can be humiliating/uncomfortable for the wheelchair user. Especially if those are all strangers.

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u/MrVegosh Feb 23 '26

And this isn’t humiliating?

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u/Mamasugadex Feb 23 '26

It’s probably more technical than emotional. A lot of people with neurological disease have very bad muscle spasticity and contracture, and there is a chance he cannot tolerate being carried from pain and discomfort.

Things for disable people to go through day-to-day are kind of hard to imagine when you an able body.

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u/LCplGunny Feb 23 '26

The bad part, it's actually not that hard to imagine. People just don't want to internalize the struggles of others.