My local Bus Station has just one escalator from the lower level to the upper level (or perhaps it's the other way...), which changes directions from Up in the morning to Down in the afternoon. There's also a flight of stairs next to it (as well as an elevator), so people can still go down or up when the Escalator is going the "wrong" way.
One afternoon I was walking down the stairs while other commuters rode the escalator down (they don't walk here in L.A. but rudely stand two abreast so sometimes it's actually faster walking down the 20 or so steps), when a woman approached the bottom of the (currently) "Down" escalator.
She laughed in a bemused sort of way and said to the people coming down the "Down" escalator, "You're going the wrong way." Then I watched incredulously as she tried to push her way between the exiting riders. She wasn't joking, she honestly thought the people coming down the "Down" escalator were riding the wrong way.
She was trying to step onto the bottom of a Down escalator.
As I descended the last couple of steps the woman actually managed to take two steps onto the "Down" escalator before being pushed back the way she'd come. As she stumbled backwards her look of bemusement was replaced with one of complete and utter confusion, and it took her a couple of seconds to realize what she'd just done.
Her subsequent reaction was very typical of people who encounter unexpected change in their life: anger and indignation.
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BWWWAHAHAHAHHA! Reminds me of the people who turn left at the roundabout in my town instead of following it around to the right like they are supposed to.
You can spot these drivers by their inability to follow even the most simple of signs telling them that the area is a one way. Then, when they do turn left, they stop their vehicles sideways-usually across two lanes- and scream at the other motorists to "get out of their way!!" people are great.
You misspelled people are suck.
Amazing set of circumstances there!
Here in West Australia, I still notice people having problems getting through ticket barriers at train stations.
The ticket barriers are new things out here so people have only had 2 years to get used to them.
These people walk to the barriers, lift up their smartcards and put them over the tag-off area and wait for it to beep. To do this, they cock their head towards their machine as if the extra foot will enable them to hear the high pitch "beep" of the tag-off confirming they can proceed.
Me? I just tag-off and walk through the open barriers.
Occasionally, people don't notice the big red X indicating that they can't go through that way and proceed to try. Very occasionally, they try it even AFTER noticing the X.
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