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white_shadow · Joined: 28 Mar 2005

I was just wondering, but do you guys/gals walk on an escalator or just stand there and enjoy the free ride like me.

I've always grown up to let the escalator do the work for me. But I've noticed that almost half of the people I've seen walk the escalator.

Wangja · Joined: 17 May 2004 Location: Seoul, Yongsan

Down yes, up no. Wink

Free World · Joined: 01 Apr 2005 Location: Drake Hotel

I always walk.
It drives me crazy when two people stand beside each other instead of leaving a lane for people to walk up or down.

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

I prefer to stand and let the machine do all the work. Besides, it gives me an opportunity to see if the hand rail thingie is in synch with the floor. A lot aren't. Life is just full of surprises.

hypnotist · Joined: 04 Dec 2004 Location: I wish I were a sock

I use the stairs whenever I can. It's usually faster.

Grotto · Joined: 21 Mar 2004

my favorite thing about escalators is when you have someone who gets to the top/bottom and stands there trying to figure out what to do next and then you run over them and they give you that wounded puppy look Rolling Eyes

PolyChronic Time Girl · Joined: 15 Dec 2004 Location: Korea Exited

I take my princess time waiting on the escalator and my husband will hoof it up the stairs...always. He'll even run up those ghastly stairs that are a mile high at Itaewon station.....what, does he want to be healthy and fit or something!? Wink

Zyzyfer · Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 4:58 am Post subject:

I've actually taken to reading my book on escalators. Both of the stations I frequent have several escalators, so I start reading going down to the train and finish reading when I come up the last escalator.

Obviously I don't walk on the escalators if I'm doing this.

hypnotist · Joined: 04 Dec 2004 Location: I wish I were a sock

Bulsajo · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

I like to stop just before I get on an escalator and decide for a few seconds if I really want to go in that direction.

You may have met me before- I'm also the person who likes to have conversations in the middle of the only doorway, and I like to leap into the elevator as soon as the doors open, before the people who are getting off have a chance to get out.

PEIGUY · Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Location: Omokgyo

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

Most Koreans are pretty good in the subway about obeying the "stand right, walk left" rule. Sometimes you get the clueless old person or the attached-at- the-hips young couple who refuse to stand single file.

If the stairs are not like the stairs in the line 7/2 Konkuk transfer I'll actually take the stairs. It's added exercise. If the stairs are a real brutal climb, I'll take the escalator and walk left.