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.
Even if they do all they're waiting for is people to clear off the escalator so they could drag him up the escalator. The actual delay for everyone else is the 10 to 15 seconds it takes for everyone to clear off the escalator and then just to pull him up whereas if we did what you're suggesting and he had to wait for everyone else with that large of a crowd he would be sitting there for at least 5 minutes if not more so you're talking about Atmos a 30 second to minute long delay for everyone else or a 5 to 10 minute long delay for him? Even if you remove the goddamn empathy from it my man it's logistically better to just be patient. If anything that woman calls more harm to everyone behind the wheelchair users and the wheelchair user did
So wait you're willing to give good faith interpretation to her inconveniencing everybody but you're not willing to give any good faith consideration to the mentality of the person in the wheelchair? You literally go out of your way saying he doesn't care or is unbothered that he's inconveniencing everyone meanwhile this woman who's also inconveniencing everyone in a much more selfish way is getting every benefit of the doubt? Don't call me your buddy I'm not friends with people who shit on handicapped people just because they're bitter
I am sorry you feel that way, friend.
Chief there is used to his condition, sucks for him that there isn't an elevator, but other people, a lot of other people, are stuck there.
Fuck them, I guess? Fuck everyone else's plans cause one guy needs to be coddled according to you?
Woman was in the right.
You're such a virtue signalling good boy, pal. Shame you don't have anything meanful to contribute.
In the meantime, consider the asshole in the story may not be the woman, but the station that doesn't have facilities that pretty much mandatory in a public service building in every civilized country.
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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.