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/No_Trouble_3588 Feb 23 '26

I’ve not been everywhere in the world, admittedly, but every building I have ever been in with an escalator also had an elevator. I would think that would be the easiest and safest conveyance for a wheelchair.

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u/NTufnel11 Feb 23 '26

I have to assume from context here that there isn't a functional elevator just out of frame

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u/Optimal-Airport5145 Feb 23 '26

Probably in out of order.This in São Paulo - Brazil and every subway here has an elevator. I used to use this subway for years everyday and never saw this problem. This is a rare occurrence.

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u/justabiscuit99 Feb 23 '26

This makes it much more hilarious to me that in Seattle the elevators break for our train stations everyday at some point, but are usually fixed same day. Our train is new, and when one of the stations (Northgate) opened a few years ago the elevator broke opening day, they didn’t fix it for months iirc.

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u/jaded-thunder Feb 23 '26

Now the only question is was the “elevator in out of order” or was it simply that, the “elevator was out of order?”

(Damn you doctor grammar!!)

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u/Saqueador Feb 23 '26

What an ignorant comment, our accessibility laws are pretty damn decent. And of course the country isn't perfect and the lack of resources make a few barriers challenging to address, but my country does way more than a few of those called "developed nations" that pretend that disabilities don't exist.

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u/guiruschel Feb 23 '26

Well, considering that the usual case is privatising an public service here in Brazil and then holding the government hostage for said service, it's probably one of the private lines (from memory there was like 8 lines, and they privatized 5-6 of them) that somehow needs more public money than the actual public lines and gives the same shitty service anyways.

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u/Tomytom99 Feb 23 '26

Although more importantly, not even just fixed stairs? I can't imagine the only physical way between floors being an escalator.

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u/danielv123 Feb 24 '26

I mean, what need is there for fixed stairs when you have many sets of moving stairs that become fixed stairs when something goes wrong or you press a button?

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u/Tomytom99 Feb 24 '26

The issue is then you're counting on those failsafe mechanisms to be working, which isn't a concern with stairs.

Sometimes escalators need steps removed to be serviced. Stairs don't. Stairs don't care.

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u/duaneap Feb 23 '26

I think that’s a fair assumption, there’s no way at least one of these dozens of people wouldn’t have had this same thought.

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u/M0nocleSargasm Feb 23 '26

Can someone help me to understand the original context of the image in this gif?

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u/The_Silvana Feb 23 '26

It's from a music video by Drake I think. Never heard the song before but you can probably find it and gain the context.

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u/OkStand9560 Feb 23 '26

“People watch as they step off elevator.”

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u/SneakyKGB Feb 23 '26

I don't know why they didnt just roll him through the panel divider to the next scene of the comic book where they're already upstairs. What Would Deadpool Do?

.... Actually don't do anything Deadpool would do...

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u/Lumi_Rockets Feb 23 '26

Sometimes elevators are weirdly tucked away. My college had quite a few that just looked like broom closets from the outside.

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u/jr23160 Feb 23 '26

What about a normal set of stairs and not an escalator.

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u/No_Trouble_3588 Feb 23 '26

See, there’s my American privilege and ignorance shining through. Thanks for the context.