Why are escalators always out of order?

[safcrob]

I don't know if it's just the case with supermarkets but there's always one that's down which is usually the one that goes up, I bet they're switched of deliberately to save on electric.

 

[42]

Theyre Broken crob.

Mind the ones in sainsburys on north hylton have been broke for about 3 months now. Its ridiculous

 

[SupperandCruncher]

I don't know if it's just the case with supermarkets but there's always one that's down which is usually the one that goes up, I bet they're switched of deliberately to save on electric.

Was in Tescos on Friday and it was actually working. I was flabbergasted.

 

[SKP130]

The workings of an escalator are inconsistent.

Lots of ups and downs.

 

[Hettonlass]

I've developed an irrational fear of escalators

I always find myself taking steps to avoid them

 

[ollyboro]

I don't know if it's just the case with supermarkets but there's always one that's down which is usually the one that goes up, I bet they're switched of deliberately to save on electric.

5g masts, 15 minute cities, the Kennedy Assassination, broken escalators.....all part of the Jewish conspiracy, mate.

 

[junglist31]

Asda one in shields was down last week. Must make a 4tune as an escalator engineer fixer dude.

 

[Hettonlass]

My husband always prefers the escalator, whereas I always like to take the lift

I guess we were raised differently

 

[Big Duke Six]

Save leccy.

 

[Harry Gates]

Is it so left handed people can assume an air of normality?

 

[Big Jeff]

I don't know if it's just the case with supermarkets but there's always one that's down which is usually the one that goes up, I bet they're switched of deliberately to save on electric.

It’s so people who have pacemakers fitted are not affected by them.

 

[EDGE]

Surely this has got to be Cox Green under a nom de plume.

 

[RossTheNinja]

They can never break. They only become stairs

 

[BackhouseParkRangers]

cos they’re goosed.

 

[League Wan]

Sainsbury's wessy way are always knackered.

 

[puntilla]

I remember being four or five years of age in a Norwich department store with my Nana, when a old man fell backwards at the bottom of the escalators and a lady pressed the emergency stop button and the introvert in me even then thought. “My God..we’ve got to use the stairs now!”

 

[Boinger]

Because they aren't?

 

[Bagatelle]

Because the little people inside who collect the treads at the bottom and carry them to the top or vice versa get very tired and need a rest

 

[DufraisFTM]

Tory Britain

 

[AyeAyeAye]

Slightly different but I’d say that any one time there are 50% of the worlds lift out of order. Probably about 90% of hotel lifts