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An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sor
by arkanciscan 6y ago
An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
Mitch Hedberg
- mschuetz 6y agoThey can fail quite spectacularly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1SjQfwLieU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1SjQfwLieU
- deleted 6y ago[deleted]
- anticensor 6y agoWe have a much shorter expression in my mother tongue, Turkish: we call stairs "merdiven" and escalators "yürüyen merdiven", so "Escalator Temporarily Stairs" becomes "yürümeyen merdiven".