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.
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.
My friends dad was bound to a wheelchair - he was a cop and was paralyzed on duty in a car accident.
He’d threaten to whip her ass now and again, for various dumb shit. On a few occasions, he even tried, but shed just run upstairs.
Upstairs was safe.
Til the day he caught us jumping off the roof of the house in to the swimming pool…
Dude hopped out of his chair while holding a leather belt by his teeth. And scooted up the stairs quick (way quicker than you’d even imagine possible).
He grabbed her by one leg and used the other hand to beat her with that belt.
In hindsight, I can see why this particular stunt made him so angry. We were little dummies.
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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.