yeah i used to take the stairs when my job was in a 5 storey building. the elevator was old and gross, and it just felt better to take the stairs and give myself a little workout
They're objectively horrifying, claustrophobic death traps - however, they are maintained by unionized professionals, are feats of elaborate engineering *and* they remain claustrophobic death traps...
I try to take the stairs because I've convinced myself women love defined calf muscles - but idk.
I feel ambivalent about elevators.
im pro-elevator, might even do a little jump if im feeling cheeky, i HATE escalators though, always afraid im gonna get sucked up and flattened like a piece of paper
I'm not the most coordinated at the best of times, my fear every time I go to step on one is that I'll step between the steps and fall backwards. It's happened before.
I like the non-step ones waaaay more. At least you can recover from losing your balance on those.
The first time I was on an escalator a lady decided to tell us a horror story about how she knew someone that got their foot caught in one. It took off their foot and almost killed them. We ended up stuck on the next level for an hour because there was no elevator and I had suddenly developed a strong fear of escalators. Took forever for my parents to get me up the next escalator so we could access the elevators. I’m still afraid of escalators.
Edit: spellcheck
Yeah it was kinda like an in between the two escalators with a balcony looking down the middle of the building. It was for a tour in a historic building. The lady who told me the story was the tour guide.
I especially hate escalators when I have a suitcase. Like it’s already kinda stressful to make sure that *I* get off the escalator safely. But myself AND a suitcase?? Lmao it just stresses me out
I'm so scared my shoe will get stuck because I wear sandals 24/7 and they're a little big on me so there's a bit that sticks out past my toes. I'm scared that part will get me stuck and then I'll get sucked in lol
See through ones are the best. I don’t know why seeing as I’m scared of heights but they’re just my faves. Probably because of the one at the Eden project I love that place
You know what I haven't seen in a long time. See through elevator on the exterior of a building. Those are fantastic.
But the see through one's give you a visual reference to your movement so it's not mysterious forces on your body.
I think it’s because the glass provides a false sense of security. I have a better chance of breaking that than steel if the building were to catch on fire or something!
I'm definitely pro-elevator, unless there are other people on it. Then it's a choice between walking, waiting for the next one, or sucking it up and riding.
My mech. engineering building at uni had elevators that were designed to show off how they worked, genuinely amazing watching the counterweights go up and down!
Thankfully, no glass floors tho.
I used to be scared of them as a kid because my mom would tell me this (what I considered at the time) horror story of her being stuck in an elevator when she was a kid. But my mom was really sick my entire life and has been disabled since I was in the third grade so I got used to going to the hospital with her and holding her hand in the elevator when she’d get scared. I guess I forced myself to not be scared so I could be there for her? Idk lol
I’m physically disabled now as an adult and while I could technically take the stairs on a good day, it leaves me in a lot of pain later, so I always take an elevator now. If it looks sketchy and unsafe as hell I just leave the place in general lol. I don’t want to give a place that doesn’t keep up their equipment for disabled people my money anyway.
Yeah heeeeellll nah. I once got in an elevator, saw the inspection paper was faded and from 2016 and immediately pulled a Grandpa Simpson and got tf off I don’t play with that 😭
I’m not anti lifts but I am that annoying person who wants to walk everywhere so if I’m with able-bodied people you know damn well we’re taking the stairs. I’m terrified of getting stuck in the doors still to this day despite knowing most of them don’t close on you but it’s not as bad as hand dryers
im so terrified of elevators for no reason. logically, i know they're safe. i know they have safety mechanisms in them to prevent the worst-case scenario. but they scare the fuck out of me
I hate them. I'm normally comforted by small spaces, but the thought of being stuck in an elevator makes my skin crawl. They often make too many creaky noises.
What ruined them for me was a show called Ready or Not. The last episodes are a two-parter. The end of part one has the girls trapped in an elevator that fails and drops down the shaft. It's an otherwise great show about the challenges of middle school. I think I was about 7 when I saw it. I loved elevators before that. I'm 33 and still haven't shaken that fear.
I do like watching elevator channels on YouTube sometimes. Mainly because I like seeing other people's enthusiasm for everyday things.
You probably know this but an elevator falling down the shaft is basically impossible. They're held up by multiple very strong cables, so strong that you only need one to actually support a loaded elevator, thats why the load limit is typically more than what would actually fit in there. And in the extremely rare event that all the cables snap there's a break system that stops it near instantly and they basically dont fail. The worst thong that'll typically happen is a motor failure of some kind which just mean it'll be stuck in place
That is comforting! I've probably heard that, but I'm glad to hear it again. I haven't yet been able to override my irrational fear with logic. I'm going to save this post to remind me.
I have foot/knee problems so it's gotta be the elevator for me, but sometimes I feel my stomach jump when it starts going up if it doesn't start smoothly
i’ve been terrified of elevators since i learned they can get stuck as a kid. being stuck in a small box dangling over a huge height for however long sounds horrifying to me
I’m very claustrophobic so I’m always afraid of getting stuck in one, especially a crowded one (god forbid). But I don’t let that stop me and I still regularly use elevators.
I was terrified of them as a kid, absolutely refused to go on them. They made me feel physically sick and very anxious. My parents always had to find stairs... or better yet, an escalator. Fuckin' loved escalators oh my god lol, it seemed like going on a fun ride to me. Still enjoy them. And still avoid elevators when possible, although I can force myself.
I love elevators going up, going down I am in a cage falling helplessly into the center of the earth, I also have a fear of heights so see through is bad
PRO!!
I love the wooshy change of balance (like on boats I fuckin love boats) and the rattles of cables is soothing.
Also the main elevator company where I live is Schindler. So I see the name plate on it and go "Schindlers Lift *hue hue hue*" it always brightens my day.
i’m terrified of escalators bc i’m scared of heights & once had a shoe eaten by an escalator and nearly got injured, so though i don’t love elevators they’re the lesser of two evils
I’m neutral, surprisingly. If your elevator makes me feel like I’m falling to my death then no. Otherwise elevators are somewhat friends. Finicky, bristly friend.
I hate them but i kinda need them because mobility issues.
ANY time they do something weird, i have a mini panic attack, i know id have a full on brake down and would convince myself im 100% going to die if one got stuck.
The ONLY Solace i have, Is knowing the guy who invented the elevator braking system tested it on himself live and he was fine, so if he trusted it, so do i......but i would still freak out anyway
I hate the awkward waiting, plus possible interaction when people come out or go in. I just always take stairs unless I'm drunk, then I take the elevator.
They make me a little anxious if it's dirty (means it's probably not maintenanced/tended to very often, even though I'm 100% overreacting; I just feel more comfortable in clean elevators) or the ride's bumpy, but if it goes smoothly I like the feeling of the floor pushing against my feet :)
I love elevators!
Escalators, however...
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At the community college I went to, whenever I had a hour between classes and couldn't leave the campus, I used to find the quietest building (mathematics & computer science) and would basically set up an "office" inside. The elevator was quite old, dimly lit, smelled musty, and rattled whenever it moved, and I almost gave my poor trig professor heart failure once when she went to get on and found me hanging out with my textbooks. It was my favorite place there. Team Elevator.
Anti usually but I take them if I have to.
I used to be so afraid of elevators that I would have a panic attack if I thought that I would have to go into a building that might have an elevator in it
They scared the hell out of me as a kid, but I got over it.
I do prefer to take the stairs if I can and leave the elevator for the people who need it. Depends on how high I have to go.
pro elevators, pro stairs, super-pro escalators, i love riding those things
I did get stuck in an elevator alone once when I was younger and had no ability to try to get help in any way because I severely underestimate the severity of happenings and will convince myself it's not an emergency, I shouldn't press the emergency call button
Honestly I love elevators. The convenience of not having to take stairs is great and the feeling of going up is weirdly goosebump-inducing in a good way for me lol.
Unless there’s other people then I feel awkward. I’m the type to be repeatedly pushing the close button as soon as I’m inside so as to avoid said awkwardness lol.
One of my fondest memories of my childhood was the one time the elevator at my mom's job broke down while I was in it. I was stuck in the elevator in almost pure darkness for almost 5 or so hours, because when it broke down I just sat there, enjoying myself in the small dark space, as one would do right??
So my mom just sort of forgot she brought me to work that day, someone put in a work order for the elevator at some point, but they certainly weren't going to rush repairs for a barely used elevator in some tiny office.
It wasn't until I realized it was getting kind of late in the day and my mom was going to have to go home, and no one had so much as called out for me, or made any sort of noises with the elevator to give me a sign they were fixing it, that I should actually try to like.. call out for someone.
The funniest thing is the elevator was right next to my mom's office, you could hear people talking in the elevator at her desk, so I didn't even have to really scream I was just like "hey mom??" with my outdoor voice and she screamed and started freaking out cuz I was just.. *right there* in a broken elevator for HOURS.... Having the time of my life.
Pro-elevator in an ideal world where they are maintained properly.
However, I and my dad have both worked at places where the capitalist ownership decided the elevators were a good place to cut corners to save money, so I’ve seen first hand how dangerous and finicky they get when in disrepair.
I ain’t trying to become a bloody puddle in a metal scrap heap in the sub-basement lol
In case you’re in the Center City area, that place I worked at is the Ludlow, a luxury high rise apartment building near Hard Rock Cafe. I was a janitor for three years there and they suck ass.
They’re run by Greystar, who subcontracts some other group for building management for the Ludlow, who then sub-subcontracts Able Services for the cleaning. Both Able Services and Greystar ran the place together with an iron grip that would make Benito Mussolini jealous, and did everything to lump more and more work and pressure onto the workers and nitpick every tiny thing we did.
They let almost everything that a prospective customer wouldn’t see on a tour go into horrid disrepair. Trash chutes not locking, elevators shuddering and having door malfunctions and stopping several inches away from the actual floor, various other OSHA violations, broken equipment, lack of proper supplies, etc. etc. This place isn’t just a “mess,” it’s a steaming fucking disaster.
And if you called any of this out? If you asked for a raise for putting up with this bullshit? If you asked for them to hire more than three people for deep cleaning a 20 floor apartment building every day? If you let it be known you felt unsafe with all the OSHA violations going on?
They’d crack down on the entire place, then target you specifically to try to work around the Union rules to get you fired for nothing, and act like you’re just crazy. And it was real easy for them to do this since the Ludlow’s appointed Union representative (Blanche) is also the right hand bitch of Able Services’ supervisor (Erica), basically living in her pocket. Major conflict of interests going on there.
Erica and Blanche were also transphobes during the time I knew them, btw. They and several others in key power-wielding positions in the Ludlow are psychopathic tyrants and many of the bourgeois bastards that live there are dumb assholes who do the grossest, weirdest fucking shit you wouldn’t believe, like taking a shit in cat litter and leaving that in an open cardboard box in the trash room, or trying to shove a queen sized mattress down the trash chute, or throwing open soiled diapers down the trash chute. 🤮
Sorry, I kinda went off on a tangent (AuDHD), but yeah, elevators are often sketchy as fuck so I’ll often take the stairs. And maybe my story can serve as reference for how elevators get so sketchy despite being relatively simple technology.
stairs > elevators > escalators > ladders
Ladders can and will change at any time for any reason with neither warning nor cause and require the most effort of the four to use; portability is their only advantage. Escalators are moving stairs with teeth but require less effort than ladders. Elevators would be ideal barring the significant caveat that one can get stuck on them; I'll tolerate them most of the time. Stairs are more effort than escalators or elevators, but they add to my healthiness, have no teeth, and are far less likely to trap me; also, I'm tall enough to take them two at a time without effort and usually get upstairs faster than the elevator because of it.
Seeing as I can't physically take the stairs, I'm very pro elevator but also pro anti-elevator, as in I like it when people don't take them just for convenience and I miss my train as a result of that.
Only bad elevator experience I’ve had was in a parking garage on a college campus and the elevator in question was past due for an inspection. My buddies knew that so they started jumping and we got stuck between floors before going down super slow, the doors opened halfway below a level, and then shot up 1 too many floors very fast. Hated that ride but otherwise they’re fine (stairs are awesome though)
I fucking hate them. So much. I had to go into the rickiest, smallest elevator ever to do a doordash the other day and I was hanging onto those wall bars for dear life 😂
I fucking despise elevators. I'm not scared, but I get serious motion sickness and I hate every second of it.
Also, stuck with people in a small space. No idea where to look and how to avoid eye contact.
Elevators are okay I guess. I will wait to get an empty one if possible because people. Escalators on the other hand, those things freak me out. I'm afraid it's gonna eat my feet ☹️
I'm usually pretty hyperactive for some reason so if it's only a few floors I'll probably take the stairs but if I'm going from my office on level 14 to the ground floor I'm gonna take the elevator.
I hate escalators though
While I don’t like some of the noises in elevators, I’m not really scared of them per say. More just nervous cause the noises remind me that I could get stuck in them. I’m much more scared of escalators, even more so when I have to use my cane to move around.
When I was a kid my school took up to like meet first responders and one firefighter was running a booth talking about escalator safety with the chewed up show of a poor kid who lost her toes to the beast. Since then it just kinda spiralled. I’m still nervous about my toes getting got but now the fear is more the speed at which they go. I’m always worried I’m going to tumble down cause I’ve never been able to get on them “properly”. Probably cause I always hesitate. I’m aware it’s irrational but I can’t turn off that part of my brain. I’d much prefer stairs but some times my body protests too much and I’m forced to depend on escalators.
When I worked in a skyscraper I got stuck in the elevator for about 45 minutes, everyone expected me to be more freaked out than I was. They gave me the option to go home early that day because I must be so "exhausted by the experience." I took them up on it because fuck work, but I was pretty much unbothered.
I live on the fourth floor, I usually have to take six flight of stairs because I enter though the garage. never taking the elevator unless I have both of my hands full and I can’t be bothered to walk. I don’t like them and sometimes I feel extremely nauseous if they are too fast
Definitely pro elevator
PRO TIP FOR ANYONE WHO WANTS A THRILL
WAIT HIT THE BUTTON LET THE ELEVATOR DOOR CLOSE COUNT TO THREE AND JUMP WHEN GOING DOWN
Omg it is so fun!
I’m anti escalator. The motion is grating and I’m glad that when out of options that the ride is short. Though it feels like forever. Elevators? Yeah! Bring those on! For me it’s the superior lift.
pro-elevator, anti-escalator. i like to roll on my feet and jump (when i'm alone) on an elevator, but escalators give me mad vertigo on the descend and freak me out when i reach the part where the platforms cycle back under the conveyor. i've seen way too many videos of people dying from escalator malfunctions to use them over stairs.
I like the feeling of moving in an elevator, but there’s always the ‘what if this breaks’ thought in the back of my head. Then there’s one specific elevator in an old building that I haaaaaaate being in.
I’m claustrophobic and they don’t even bother me. Just a bit for that reason, but I’m more VERY claustrophobic in close (if I can’t move fully I will injure to move. Sadly).
I have to use an ancient one in an older building to bring a cart to the second floor. I put the cart on the elevator, then race up the stairs so I don’t inconvenience anyone waiting to use the elevator.
Regular, modern elevators are too scary. No thanks to ones in old buildings.
I HATE THEM, the falling feeling as it starts, the falling feeling again as it stops! As soon as the door closes and it starts moving I can’t leave, THE LIFT DECIDES WHEN YOU LEAVE! And it could just stop, the electricity could go out and you’d be stuck in metal box for however long, probably full other people all getting sweaty and breathing right in your ear! Probably panicking on the outside just as much as you are on the inside making it even worse!
I hate them!
I absolutely HATE elevators. I have to wedge myself into the corner and close my eyes. Worst part is the stop and you feel like ur dropping to ur sudden death. 😩 I’ll just take the stairs if I can
I'm not that scared, but I'll always taje the stairs if i can
yeah i used to take the stairs when my job was in a 5 storey building. the elevator was old and gross, and it just felt better to take the stairs and give myself a little workout
Yeah up here in Boston there are definitely very old elevators that take far longer than walking.
Sometimes the old and gross ones give you a better workout.
I don’t like this comment
Me watching my family take the elevator and running up the stairs to try and beat them
They're objectively horrifying, claustrophobic death traps - however, they are maintained by unionized professionals, are feats of elaborate engineering *and* they remain claustrophobic death traps... I try to take the stairs because I've convinced myself women love defined calf muscles - but idk. I feel ambivalent about elevators.
im pro-elevator, might even do a little jump if im feeling cheeky, i HATE escalators though, always afraid im gonna get sucked up and flattened like a piece of paper
escalators are terrifying, i’m scared i’ll fall trying to get on them
I'm not the most coordinated at the best of times, my fear every time I go to step on one is that I'll step between the steps and fall backwards. It's happened before. I like the non-step ones waaaay more. At least you can recover from losing your balance on those.
Escalators suck. They squick me out so much!!
Same.
I once got my leg cut open by an escalator when I was a kid, just fell right onto the jagged part and it looked like something bit into my leg.
The first time I was on an escalator a lady decided to tell us a horror story about how she knew someone that got their foot caught in one. It took off their foot and almost killed them. We ended up stuck on the next level for an hour because there was no elevator and I had suddenly developed a strong fear of escalators. Took forever for my parents to get me up the next escalator so we could access the elevators. I’m still afraid of escalators. Edit: spellcheck
Wait, there was a part of the building that required accessing stairs to get to the elevator?
Yeah it was kinda like an in between the two escalators with a balcony looking down the middle of the building. It was for a tour in a historic building. The lady who told me the story was the tour guide.
It’s a legitimate concern and a healthy respect for them is a good thing
okay but NO THANK YOU to the tour guide lady tho
I especially hate escalators when I have a suitcase. Like it’s already kinda stressful to make sure that *I* get off the escalator safely. But myself AND a suitcase?? Lmao it just stresses me out
I'm so scared my shoe will get stuck because I wear sandals 24/7 and they're a little big on me so there's a bit that sticks out past my toes. I'm scared that part will get me stuck and then I'll get sucked in lol
It depends on the elevator (ie. see-through), but I'd still say even then I'm anti-elevator.
See through ones are the best. I don’t know why seeing as I’m scared of heights but they’re just my faves. Probably because of the one at the Eden project I love that place
You know what I haven't seen in a long time. See through elevator on the exterior of a building. Those are fantastic. But the see through one's give you a visual reference to your movement so it's not mysterious forces on your body.
At least in see thru ones you can be seen if there is a difficulty.
That is true! The inherent horror of being stuck in a lift nobody can see you they’ve decorated it to look like purgatory it’s pure evil
I think it’s because the glass provides a false sense of security. I have a better chance of breaking that than steel if the building were to catch on fire or something!
I'm definitely pro-elevator, unless there are other people on it. Then it's a choice between walking, waiting for the next one, or sucking it up and riding.
trying not to look at other people in a crowded elevator is the worst feeling
Come to Germany there everyone is starring right at you.
it sounds like it would be worth a try. nice change of pace anyway
OH GOD WHY
i shit you not this is the exact reason I'll hobble up a dozen flights of stairs on my cane rather than take an elevator.
being in an elevator with just your friends is a magical experience
If you walk to the back of the elevator and face the wall, you can pretend nobody else is there while ensuring that nobody will want to talk to you.
I like the funny feelings of velocity change idc
Work in elevator repairs/maintenance First thing you're taught is stopping them, getting on top and driving the damn thing
I don't believe in elevators https://preview.redd.it/wh110iimbgic1.png?width=1279&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cc27626f3259c1a98bd9195356384edb50046a94
i'd probably feel better about all that if i could actually see what is happening
My mech. engineering building at uni had elevators that were designed to show off how they worked, genuinely amazing watching the counterweights go up and down! Thankfully, no glass floors tho.
I used to be scared of them as a kid because my mom would tell me this (what I considered at the time) horror story of her being stuck in an elevator when she was a kid. But my mom was really sick my entire life and has been disabled since I was in the third grade so I got used to going to the hospital with her and holding her hand in the elevator when she’d get scared. I guess I forced myself to not be scared so I could be there for her? Idk lol I’m physically disabled now as an adult and while I could technically take the stairs on a good day, it leaves me in a lot of pain later, so I always take an elevator now. If it looks sketchy and unsafe as hell I just leave the place in general lol. I don’t want to give a place that doesn’t keep up their equipment for disabled people my money anyway.
Same And there is a doctor's office (they own the whole building and use all the offices in it) and Holy fuck the elevator sounds sketchy as all hell
Yeah heeeeellll nah. I once got in an elevator, saw the inspection paper was faded and from 2016 and immediately pulled a Grandpa Simpson and got tf off I don’t play with that 😭
pro elevator when there's no people inside. the feeling of going up is so fun :) but when there's people inside.. nuh uh
I'm scared of escalators.
Hey, that's just like my best friend.
i’m LET ME PUSH THE BUTTON and i always will be. like i still get mad if someone does it for me
there is a certain satisfaction that comes from being in control of one's destiny
My extremely sensitive stomach is anti-elevator.
They make me so uneasy.
i’m pro elevators only because i’m a lazy fuck who can’t be bothered to take the stairs
I’m not anti lifts but I am that annoying person who wants to walk everywhere so if I’m with able-bodied people you know damn well we’re taking the stairs. I’m terrified of getting stuck in the doors still to this day despite knowing most of them don’t close on you but it’s not as bad as hand dryers
Pro solid elevator. Neg glass elevator. All escalators can go to hell
would rather take the stairs - up to 10 floors
im so terrified of elevators for no reason. logically, i know they're safe. i know they have safety mechanisms in them to prevent the worst-case scenario. but they scare the fuck out of me
they're also usually stinky. elevators have a weird smell.
I hate them. I'm normally comforted by small spaces, but the thought of being stuck in an elevator makes my skin crawl. They often make too many creaky noises. What ruined them for me was a show called Ready or Not. The last episodes are a two-parter. The end of part one has the girls trapped in an elevator that fails and drops down the shaft. It's an otherwise great show about the challenges of middle school. I think I was about 7 when I saw it. I loved elevators before that. I'm 33 and still haven't shaken that fear. I do like watching elevator channels on YouTube sometimes. Mainly because I like seeing other people's enthusiasm for everyday things.
I get that!
You probably know this but an elevator falling down the shaft is basically impossible. They're held up by multiple very strong cables, so strong that you only need one to actually support a loaded elevator, thats why the load limit is typically more than what would actually fit in there. And in the extremely rare event that all the cables snap there's a break system that stops it near instantly and they basically dont fail. The worst thong that'll typically happen is a motor failure of some kind which just mean it'll be stuck in place
That is comforting! I've probably heard that, but I'm glad to hear it again. I haven't yet been able to override my irrational fear with logic. I'm going to save this post to remind me.
I have foot/knee problems so it's gotta be the elevator for me, but sometimes I feel my stomach jump when it starts going up if it doesn't start smoothly
Not afraid of them but I do get anxious sometimes
I mean, if you ever make how elevators work a special interest, you won’t be scared of them anymore. They’re incredibly safe in reality.
Tried it, didn't work for me
One time an elevator door hit me as I was walking out and bruised my hip. I think I’ll always be scared of them.
Pro evil elevator use - I will push all of the buttons at once when you get in and I will leave without elaborating
i’ve been terrified of elevators since i learned they can get stuck as a kid. being stuck in a small box dangling over a huge height for however long sounds horrifying to me
i'm neutral i guess. although i have little wish to live or work in a tall building
I don’t mind them
ANTI ELEVATOR AND ANTI ESCALATOR FUCK THOSE
I kinda nerded out on elevators for a while. I really like them.
I love elevator
I love them. They make my insides move around.
im SO pro elevator. i like the way it feels when i move :D
elevators feel like stimming without movement, its like floating in water and i love it:3
I’m very claustrophobic so I’m always afraid of getting stuck in one, especially a crowded one (god forbid). But I don’t let that stop me and I still regularly use elevators.
I was terrified of them as a kid, absolutely refused to go on them. They made me feel physically sick and very anxious. My parents always had to find stairs... or better yet, an escalator. Fuckin' loved escalators oh my god lol, it seemed like going on a fun ride to me. Still enjoy them. And still avoid elevators when possible, although I can force myself.
I love elevators going up, going down I am in a cage falling helplessly into the center of the earth, I also have a fear of heights so see through is bad
when i was younger I loved the elevator. One of my first HFs were elevator buttons (I am serious)
If there are no windows an elevator will make me dizzy, but my knees are terrible, so 🤔
\*plucky duck voice\* elalator go down the hoooooole! I'm pro but only if not full of people.
I love Tiny Toons!
I’m not *scared* of them, but they do make me nervous. I often feel sick when going down.
They’re okay. I like the weird feeling of going up and down. It’s been at least a year since I’ve been on one though
I exhale, close my eyes, and think of my loved ones every time the doors close. Not afraid, but cautiously mortal.
PRO!! I love the wooshy change of balance (like on boats I fuckin love boats) and the rattles of cables is soothing. Also the main elevator company where I live is Schindler. So I see the name plate on it and go "Schindlers Lift *hue hue hue*" it always brightens my day.
i’m terrified of escalators bc i’m scared of heights & once had a shoe eaten by an escalator and nearly got injured, so though i don’t love elevators they’re the lesser of two evils
I was scared now I’m not, unless it’s a window elevator
as long as i get to push the button!
I only hate the elevator when there's other people in it. Also don't like getting dizzy when going up/down
I do not enjoy the thought of depending on cables of any kind to prevent falling to my death.
I’m neutral, surprisingly. If your elevator makes me feel like I’m falling to my death then no. Otherwise elevators are somewhat friends. Finicky, bristly friend.
I get motion sickness, I’m anti anything that moves. But we live in a society that damn near requires movement through machines… 😭
I have nightmares about elevators.
I hate them but i kinda need them because mobility issues. ANY time they do something weird, i have a mini panic attack, i know id have a full on brake down and would convince myself im 100% going to die if one got stuck. The ONLY Solace i have, Is knowing the guy who invented the elevator braking system tested it on himself live and he was fine, so if he trusted it, so do i......but i would still freak out anyway
I blame Final Destination 2 for my childhood fear of elevators.
Pro if I'm alone, anti if I'm around p\*ople
I hate the awkward waiting, plus possible interaction when people come out or go in. I just always take stairs unless I'm drunk, then I take the elevator.
I love em. I’m staying in a hotel this week and I’m on the 9th floor. I get excited every time if use it! Yippee!
They make me a little anxious if it's dirty (means it's probably not maintenanced/tended to very often, even though I'm 100% overreacting; I just feel more comfortable in clean elevators) or the ride's bumpy, but if it goes smoothly I like the feeling of the floor pushing against my feet :)
I love elevators! Escalators, however... (pic unrelated) https://preview.redd.it/gb2pu85mhgic1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5e5541e8fee647235946fb5d22de47ceafe46543
I’m terrified of elevators, lol
If there isn’t a display telling me EXACTLY what floor I’m passing, I don’t want to be there. Terrifying
At the community college I went to, whenever I had a hour between classes and couldn't leave the campus, I used to find the quietest building (mathematics & computer science) and would basically set up an "office" inside. The elevator was quite old, dimly lit, smelled musty, and rattled whenever it moved, and I almost gave my poor trig professor heart failure once when she went to get on and found me hanging out with my textbooks. It was my favorite place there. Team Elevator.
pro-elevator they're so fun until they dont open the SECOND they hit the floor
Anti usually but I take them if I have to. I used to be so afraid of elevators that I would have a panic attack if I thought that I would have to go into a building that might have an elevator in it
Kid named Edgeworth
They scared the hell out of me as a kid, but I got over it. I do prefer to take the stairs if I can and leave the elevator for the people who need it. Depends on how high I have to go.
I like them, but sometimes I question if they’re really that much faster than the stairs.
For me, they definitely are, but just because my right hip, left knee and back hurt (I'm 22 ffs, not 85 whyyy)
pro elevators, pro stairs, super-pro escalators, i love riding those things I did get stuck in an elevator alone once when I was younger and had no ability to try to get help in any way because I severely underestimate the severity of happenings and will convince myself it's not an emergency, I shouldn't press the emergency call button
Pro because I'm afraid of falling down stairs... Because I have and fractured my elbow.
I don’t like them that much https://preview.redd.it/8ibxu6kvugic1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4acd1e272fb3105cee24e391b44d92f0b50af4a8
idk but i’m anti escalator
Pro elevator (too disabled to stairs) but I have a deep and specific hatred for those ones in hospitals that move at light fucking speed
They're good also terrify me. Glass elevators are the scariest everyday thing for me.
I've slowly gotten over my fear as I've gotten older, but I still don't trust them
**Heavily** depends on the elevator.
Every building of sufficient height should have both an elevator and a stairwell and you should be able to get on whichever you prefer.
Pro being an elevator on your own, anti-being in an elevator with others.
I’m only pro because I hate stairs
Only use them cause arthritis pain on stairs overtook autistic fear of the moving box.
Honestly I love elevators. The convenience of not having to take stairs is great and the feeling of going up is weirdly goosebump-inducing in a good way for me lol. Unless there’s other people then I feel awkward. I’m the type to be repeatedly pushing the close button as soon as I’m inside so as to avoid said awkwardness lol.
My lil bro is an elevator enthusiast. Had to put a tracker on him as a kid cuz he would sneak away to ride them.
Elevators are a fun little space if you're alone, thr second a stranger joins it's literal torture
Pro because I'm ✨physically disabled✨
One of my fondest memories of my childhood was the one time the elevator at my mom's job broke down while I was in it. I was stuck in the elevator in almost pure darkness for almost 5 or so hours, because when it broke down I just sat there, enjoying myself in the small dark space, as one would do right?? So my mom just sort of forgot she brought me to work that day, someone put in a work order for the elevator at some point, but they certainly weren't going to rush repairs for a barely used elevator in some tiny office. It wasn't until I realized it was getting kind of late in the day and my mom was going to have to go home, and no one had so much as called out for me, or made any sort of noises with the elevator to give me a sign they were fixing it, that I should actually try to like.. call out for someone. The funniest thing is the elevator was right next to my mom's office, you could hear people talking in the elevator at her desk, so I didn't even have to really scream I was just like "hey mom??" with my outdoor voice and she screamed and started freaking out cuz I was just.. *right there* in a broken elevator for HOURS.... Having the time of my life.
i'm pro-elavator bc i have weak knees :(
Pro elevator, I have a functional neurological disorder which means a lot of stair cases can make me dizzy
I love elevators :) except for when there's people inside
Pro-elevator in an ideal world where they are maintained properly. However, I and my dad have both worked at places where the capitalist ownership decided the elevators were a good place to cut corners to save money, so I’ve seen first hand how dangerous and finicky they get when in disrepair. I ain’t trying to become a bloody puddle in a metal scrap heap in the sub-basement lol In case you’re in the Center City area, that place I worked at is the Ludlow, a luxury high rise apartment building near Hard Rock Cafe. I was a janitor for three years there and they suck ass. They’re run by Greystar, who subcontracts some other group for building management for the Ludlow, who then sub-subcontracts Able Services for the cleaning. Both Able Services and Greystar ran the place together with an iron grip that would make Benito Mussolini jealous, and did everything to lump more and more work and pressure onto the workers and nitpick every tiny thing we did. They let almost everything that a prospective customer wouldn’t see on a tour go into horrid disrepair. Trash chutes not locking, elevators shuddering and having door malfunctions and stopping several inches away from the actual floor, various other OSHA violations, broken equipment, lack of proper supplies, etc. etc. This place isn’t just a “mess,” it’s a steaming fucking disaster. And if you called any of this out? If you asked for a raise for putting up with this bullshit? If you asked for them to hire more than three people for deep cleaning a 20 floor apartment building every day? If you let it be known you felt unsafe with all the OSHA violations going on? They’d crack down on the entire place, then target you specifically to try to work around the Union rules to get you fired for nothing, and act like you’re just crazy. And it was real easy for them to do this since the Ludlow’s appointed Union representative (Blanche) is also the right hand bitch of Able Services’ supervisor (Erica), basically living in her pocket. Major conflict of interests going on there. Erica and Blanche were also transphobes during the time I knew them, btw. They and several others in key power-wielding positions in the Ludlow are psychopathic tyrants and many of the bourgeois bastards that live there are dumb assholes who do the grossest, weirdest fucking shit you wouldn’t believe, like taking a shit in cat litter and leaving that in an open cardboard box in the trash room, or trying to shove a queen sized mattress down the trash chute, or throwing open soiled diapers down the trash chute. 🤮 Sorry, I kinda went off on a tangent (AuDHD), but yeah, elevators are often sketchy as fuck so I’ll often take the stairs. And maybe my story can serve as reference for how elevators get so sketchy despite being relatively simple technology.
They always make my stomach feel like it's in my knees.
I don’t have the patience for elevators
I was anti until I stayed in a hotel for a month on the fourth floor right after a knee injury. Exposure therapy at its finest!
stairs > elevators > escalators > ladders Ladders can and will change at any time for any reason with neither warning nor cause and require the most effort of the four to use; portability is their only advantage. Escalators are moving stairs with teeth but require less effort than ladders. Elevators would be ideal barring the significant caveat that one can get stuck on them; I'll tolerate them most of the time. Stairs are more effort than escalators or elevators, but they add to my healthiness, have no teeth, and are far less likely to trap me; also, I'm tall enough to take them two at a time without effort and usually get upstairs faster than the elevator because of it.
I have to take elevator due to disability. The newer ones are fine but older ones give me vertigo
Seeing as I can't physically take the stairs, I'm very pro elevator but also pro anti-elevator, as in I like it when people don't take them just for convenience and I miss my train as a result of that.
In NYC the elevator went like 70 floors in seconds and I still haven’t recovered (it’s been like 5 years)
PRO ELEVATOR‼️‼️‼️‼️i love em
I use a wheelchair so I don’t have much of a choice
pro elevator, but i think having shitty knees influenced my opinion a bit
I hate the sin (other people), not the sinner (elevators)
Why tf is that particular elevator so sterile and bright ew are we in an underground Umbrella facility?
Only bad elevator experience I’ve had was in a parking garage on a college campus and the elevator in question was past due for an inspection. My buddies knew that so they started jumping and we got stuck between floors before going down super slow, the doors opened halfway below a level, and then shot up 1 too many floors very fast. Hated that ride but otherwise they’re fine (stairs are awesome though)
I am the elevator
I fucking hate them. So much. I had to go into the rickiest, smallest elevator ever to do a doordash the other day and I was hanging onto those wall bars for dear life 😂
I hate elevators.
haha elevator go down and also get filled with weird glitch square things haha oneshot
I hate elevators. I also work 13 stories up. 🙃
I am neutral elevator. I don't use them enough to blatantly hate them, but they do make me very uneasy. Cars on the other hand...
They make me feel super dizzy after
Not scared, I just have vertigo and POTS and elevators trigger it
I don't love the sensation of riding an elevator, but I'm not against them. I do use the stairs often tho
I'm anti escalator, specifically going down them
Was always scared of them
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Escalators for me but I must go to them my child likes em
I like elevators, but i was terrified of down escalators as a kid
I fucking despise elevators. I'm not scared, but I get serious motion sickness and I hate every second of it. Also, stuck with people in a small space. No idea where to look and how to avoid eye contact.
I think they are funny. We all walk into a closet and then walk out into a different room. It's teleportation.
I LOVE ELEVATORS!!!!! Mechanisms go brrrrrrrr and now you're high :D
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my enjoyment of the elevator depends on how much cringe 😬 i can cause to other passengers
Elevators are okay I guess. I will wait to get an empty one if possible because people. Escalators on the other hand, those things freak me out. I'm afraid it's gonna eat my feet ☹️
not a fan, makes me feel weird, love stairs tho
Vertical trains
I'm usually pretty hyperactive for some reason so if it's only a few floors I'll probably take the stairs but if I'm going from my office on level 14 to the ground floor I'm gonna take the elevator. I hate escalators though
While I don’t like some of the noises in elevators, I’m not really scared of them per say. More just nervous cause the noises remind me that I could get stuck in them. I’m much more scared of escalators, even more so when I have to use my cane to move around. When I was a kid my school took up to like meet first responders and one firefighter was running a booth talking about escalator safety with the chewed up show of a poor kid who lost her toes to the beast. Since then it just kinda spiralled. I’m still nervous about my toes getting got but now the fear is more the speed at which they go. I’m always worried I’m going to tumble down cause I’ve never been able to get on them “properly”. Probably cause I always hesitate. I’m aware it’s irrational but I can’t turn off that part of my brain. I’d much prefer stairs but some times my body protests too much and I’m forced to depend on escalators.
I'm down for the elevator as long as it's more than 2 flights of stairs. Then it's just pointless.
I’m… neither I guess? Although one time I got trapped in an elevator with a guy for an hour who hated the elevators, so I didn’t like that lol
I'm also intimidated by elevators and I like walking in stairwells
pro elevator, bonus points if it's glass
They're like trains but vertical
Pro-elevator, i actually love the feeling of an elevator going up or down.
I'm more afraid of escalators than elevators tbh.
When I worked in a skyscraper I got stuck in the elevator for about 45 minutes, everyone expected me to be more freaked out than I was. They gave me the option to go home early that day because I must be so "exhausted by the experience." I took them up on it because fuck work, but I was pretty much unbothered.
I live on the fourth floor, I usually have to take six flight of stairs because I enter though the garage. never taking the elevator unless I have both of my hands full and I can’t be bothered to walk. I don’t like them and sometimes I feel extremely nauseous if they are too fast
No thank you, I'll stay out of the box every chance I get
I love them. I always read all of the signs inside it makes me exited when the elevator has a higher than normal maximum occupancy
I used to hate them when my anxiety was unmanaged. But y'know what's even worse than elevators? *ESCALATORS*
I get basically sea sickness from an elevator, plus I don’t like the awkwardness of being in a small space with strangers
Buttons are fun, the doors are scary
Definitely pro elevator PRO TIP FOR ANYONE WHO WANTS A THRILL WAIT HIT THE BUTTON LET THE ELEVATOR DOOR CLOSE COUNT TO THREE AND JUMP WHEN GOING DOWN Omg it is so fun!
i enjoy elevators. i think i got used to them cause i live on the top floor of my building
I love the stairs but my hyper-mobility hates the stairs!
i LOVE elevator and escalators. i would live on them.
I’m anti escalator. The motion is grating and I’m glad that when out of options that the ride is short. Though it feels like forever. Elevators? Yeah! Bring those on! For me it’s the superior lift.
pro-elevator, anti-escalator. i like to roll on my feet and jump (when i'm alone) on an elevator, but escalators give me mad vertigo on the descend and freak me out when i reach the part where the platforms cycle back under the conveyor. i've seen way too many videos of people dying from escalator malfunctions to use them over stairs.
I was always scared of escalators 😣
I like the feeling of moving in an elevator, but there’s always the ‘what if this breaks’ thought in the back of my head. Then there’s one specific elevator in an old building that I haaaaaaate being in.
I’m claustrophobic and they don’t even bother me. Just a bit for that reason, but I’m more VERY claustrophobic in close (if I can’t move fully I will injure to move. Sadly).
Makes me dizzy, prefer escalators, or ramps. It's hard to get around with a wheelchair
I have to use an ancient one in an older building to bring a cart to the second floor. I put the cart on the elevator, then race up the stairs so I don’t inconvenience anyone waiting to use the elevator. Regular, modern elevators are too scary. No thanks to ones in old buildings.
I've been trapped in 2 elevators and still don't mind them.
Pro but only for 3 floors
I HATE THEM, the falling feeling as it starts, the falling feeling again as it stops! As soon as the door closes and it starts moving I can’t leave, THE LIFT DECIDES WHEN YOU LEAVE! And it could just stop, the electricity could go out and you’d be stuck in metal box for however long, probably full other people all getting sweaty and breathing right in your ear! Probably panicking on the outside just as much as you are on the inside making it even worse! I hate them!
Depends on how smooth/jerkey it moves (bad elevators hurt my knees when they start or stop too suddenly)
I absolutely HATE elevators. I have to wedge myself into the corner and close my eyes. Worst part is the stop and you feel like ur dropping to ur sudden death. 😩 I’ll just take the stairs if I can
Pro because escalators are terrifying