Stairs

[marni]

actually climbing stairs, or rather my lack of ability to climb four flights of stairs of a parking garage were the the final slap upside the head that made me realize that I either had to lose weight and get my life in control of just give up and veg in a recliner eating chocolate covered cherries until I died.

6 years and 130 pounds later, not to mention endless hours at the gym and over 3,000 miles a year on the bike I am thankful for that lesson.

marni

[jessmarimba]

I take the stairs because elevators make me motion sick.

I do use escalators and people movers when available or necessary (at airports, primarily) but it drives me UP the WALL when people get on them and just stop. I guess if you have a rolling suitcase, walking up the escalator doesn't work very well but I just hate not moving on my own power. I'll walk rather than take trains or buses between terminals when I have the option - sitting on the trains/monorails (at DFW, especially) just makes me edgy.

[Crankin]

Ha, MissJean, I took the train to Porter Square 2 days week for the last 3 years. I could always judge my health by how well I climbed those stairs. I admit, I didn't always use the stairs there, but if I was on the escalator, I would run up.
I always wondered just how steep of a grade that is. If you look up from the bottom, it's frighteningly steep!

[goldfinch]

I would take the stairs if I had some stairs.

I was on the 8th floor of our building. Our office entrance was on the 7th. I would slowly lumber up the one flight of internal office stairs to my office.

One of my secretaries was afraid of elevators. She always took the stairs. She would go up to the office in the morning and almost always leave for lunch, so that was twice a day she used the stairs to go 8 floors. Plus she was up and down the interior staircase numerous times a day. Her phobia had some value. However, she ended up taking another job where she only had to go up three flights.

[Eden]

I always take the stairs at the hospital, but when I work in the research building I do believe the stairwell doors are one way -you can get into the stairwell, but the only one that isn't locked to go out is floor 1, so you can only walk down.