Eerac and I met up in Barcelona last week, where we climbed lots and lots of stairs. The one time we didn’t, of course, the Metro station totally called us out.
Eric and I are still climbing stairs (now in Poland and Portugal, respectively), where we haven’t yet seen any similar signs. Back in the States, however, Christine in L.A. spotted this rather harsh version in the elevator of a 7-story university residence hall.
related: Buffalo, please use the elevator
219 responses so far ↓
#1
Pandy
If the shoe fits…
May 21, 2012 at 2:02 pm rating: 16
#2
Lil'
I think it would make more sense to direct overweight people to the stairs…well, that is if this weren’t completely out of line.
May 21, 2012 at 2:28 pm rating: 29
#3
TsuKata
Having people exercise in a way that is damaging is not helping their health.
Stairs are the leading cause of personal injury in the home in the US. The only reason they’re not the leading cause of injury in the office in the US is because of the ADA and the subsequent prevalence of elevators. In Europe, where elevators are less common, they’re the leading cause of personal injury in both home and office.
Stairs are not ergonomic. They’re designed for people of average height, and they’re easier/better the taller you are. For people shorter than average, it’s actually flexing the knee and surrounding muscles in a way that is unusual and unnatural, beyond the 90 degree angle which is considered safe for step-based exercise.
So, can I take the stairs to floor 2? Absolutely. Do I choose to when another option is available? Never. There’s just no reason to do so. It’d be like riding a bike that wasn’t designed for me. There are safer ways to get exercise.
May 21, 2012 at 2:40 pm rating: 103
#4
Brian
Sometimes injured people take the escalator or elevator to the 2nd floor. It’s not always laziness.
May 21, 2012 at 2:44 pm rating: 14
#5
Monster
Except some of us have bad ankles/legs/ect. from prior damage that while we are not technically ‘Injured’ going up the stairs puts stress on said old injuries and causes them to hurt rather badly, and lock up.
May 21, 2012 at 2:45 pm rating: 66
#6
QueenLizard
The sign at the college seems to hinge on the notion that being fat is the same as being horrible or disgusting or some other negative idea. It shows nothing but childishness and bigotry. People who think this sort of thing is humorous or appropriate need to grow up and realise just how shallow they are.
May 21, 2012 at 3:01 pm rating: 162
#7
21skulls
I’m wondering what kind of person takes time out of their day to direct disgust at someone they won’t even confront face to face. Good luck in the real world, honeybuns.
May 21, 2012 at 3:37 pm rating: 105
#8
This or That
Wow. There is some serious acrimony in this sign. Bitter, party of one, your table is now available.
May 21, 2012 at 3:55 pm rating: 42
#9
Gecko Hunter
I judge you an illiterate twit for taping half-assed signs in the elevator.*
*Unless you’re seven years old.
May 21, 2012 at 4:19 pm rating: 37
#10
Hane
Hells yeah to all of the above, says this short, klutzy grandmother with the bum knee. I’ve fallen down my share of stairs. Not fun.
May 21, 2012 at 4:31 pm rating: 13
#11
Spooky
What does the idiot do when someone who’s in elite-athlete shape takes the elevator? Because they do, you know….even just to the second floor sometimes.
And I’m not fat, but have Spondylolisthesis, an incredibly painful back condition, especially when coupled with fibromyalgia. I look healthy as a horse, if that horse is grimacing in pain as it tries to climb lots of stairs while its back is acting up. Just try judging me, you twat.
May 21, 2012 at 5:00 pm rating: 64
#12
Mooserepellant
Okay, judge me. Then tell me why the fuck I should care.
May 21, 2012 at 5:50 pm rating: 70
#13
malibu_linda
I judge the signs sexist. The fatty figure looks male.
May 21, 2012 at 5:56 pm rating: 10
#14
Annie
I’m fat, not chubby, but as my doctor calls it morbidly obese. I have been overweight pretty much my whole life. I have also been on almost every diet ever invented, often for years at a time. I have also been on many exercise plans. My parents tried everything there was never any junk food in our house. I have even had surgery to get a lap-band (which was a total failure.) When I was in college I always took the stairs. I took the stairs even when I had sprained ankles. I don’t take the stairs anymore, I can’t, the arthritis and pain from other injuries is too bad. The thing I want to ask is what did I ever do to any of you? I have been called names and ridiculed as long as I can remember, but I don’t call other people names. I spent years working for charitable organizations, and I try to be as considerate to others as possible. Why shouldn’t I take the elevator or escalator without ridicule? How does this injure you?
May 21, 2012 at 5:59 pm rating: 177
#15
The White Clouds of Opium
I think I’m going to file this one under Buzzkill.
May 21, 2012 at 6:58 pm rating: 2
#16
vesta44
I’m fat and I take the elevator instead of stairs every time. It’s also no one’s business WHY I take the elevator, nor do I need to justify WHY I take the elevator instead of the stairs. Judge all you want, I could care less – I don’t know you and I don’t want to know judgmental douchecanoes like you. Just be aware that what goes around comes around……………
May 21, 2012 at 9:10 pm rating: 42
#17
weaselby
Hahaha. I stayed in a similar hall one summer while I was a counselor for a summer camp. It IS obnoxious to keep having the elevator stop at the lower floors when you have to go all the way to the top, especially if it’s an old, slower-than-crap elevator.
May 21, 2012 at 10:32 pm rating: 8
#18
Leonna
Ya know, I see both sides of the story. I have an ankle that never healed properly after a break and on rainy or cold days, it hurts so bad that I have issues walking. However, if I’m fine, I will take the stairs, 90% of the time, because it IS the healthier option. It may be the more “dangerous” option, according to someone’s post above mine, but it is better for my body, overall. Those people that will take the elevator one floor or will insist on talking the elevator or escalator down (c’mon now, down is so much easier than up!) are just being ridiculously lazy.
May 21, 2012 at 10:38 pm rating: 17
#19
ladyneeva
I’m claustrophobic and escalators make me motion sick. So unless I absolutely have to, I take the stairs every time.
Still fat. Obese actually.
My husband and I always park at the back of the lot, because it’s quicker to park and walk to the door than it is to circle endlessly waiting for a spot close in to open up.
Still fat.
We go hiking, biking, or swimming for at least two hours at a time a minimum of five days a week when possible, or if the weather is bad we go walk around the mall for three or so hours.
Still fat.
I do a 30 gallon water change on my aquarium every week, which involves carrying 10 gallon buckets of water (80lbs about) over 500 feet out to the back yard to water my garden with them, and after that’s been done three times filling the same buckets at the back yard hose and carrying those back to the tank. Pretty good workout actually.
Still fat.
All these things mean that I’m just as fit as my average weight husband by all *actual* measures of health. You know, silly things like blood tests and the like. Not just some uneducated boob looking at me and deciding that since I killed his boner, it must mean I’m sick and about to drop dead any second.
May 21, 2012 at 10:50 pm rating: 176
#20
Upstairs/Downstairs
People who love climbing stairs are never the ones who are desperately trying to wheeze quietly at the top in their business clothes for 10 minutes while mopping their brow with their sleeves so they don’t look like a junior high kid late to fifth period after running the mile in PE. Elevator, please! See you at the top, suckas!
May 21, 2012 at 11:07 pm rating: 28
#21
havingfitz
I used to work at a snack bar in city hall, where one of my jobs was filling vending machines in the basement. One day I was on the elevator with my cart full of soda cases and candy, and one of our esteemed council members got on. He was apparently upset that he had to wait for the elevator and demanded to know why I couldn’t ‘walk to the other floor’. Well, for one thing, getting all of the junk food down the steps would have been awkward. For another, it would have denied me the chance to tell everyone I knew just what an ass this guy was and cost him votes in the next election. After which, only one of us still had a job at city hall…but at least he didn’t have to be frustrated waiting for that elevator any longer.
May 21, 2012 at 11:17 pm rating: 74
#22
ziblue
Agreed with those who say it’s no one’s business why a person opts for an elevator. I often get vertigo on stairs, so I will avoid them if possible. Escalators are often worse. You might think I look lazy, but I’d rather not inconvenience everyone behind me on that staircase when I’m having to move slowly while clinging to the handrail.
May 21, 2012 at 11:41 pm rating: 37
#23
For_Healing_Only
I seriously hate when you have to use the elevator and there are too many people already crammed in there. At our office you can only have 10 people in the elevator at once.
Now this is average sized people, and if there are 9 average people in there and a really fat person gets on the elevator, the damn thing won’t start. This usually breaks into an arguement about who should get out and usually the fat person refuses to get and so around 4 averages have to get out for a single plus sized person to stay (there is also a weight limit for the elevator).
Due to this I will always take the stairs now, even if it is 26 flights (going down is much faster than going up), as I am sick of the excuses people come up with to avoid taking them (The best one was a fat lady from 5th saying her coffee would be cold by the time she comes back as it would take her over 10 minutes)
May 21, 2012 at 11:50 pm rating: 8
#24
April Q
Sadly, as a chubby lady, I’m always aware that when I take the elevator or escalator that people are only taking notice of that lazy, fat person instead of taking a moment to consider the fact that I have lupus and pretty bad arthritis…
Worse is the fact that there are people who actually give people reason to think fat people are just lazy… at work and at other stores, I constantly see people using the scooters the store provides then just getting up and walking around randomly, proving they have no real disability that requires they use the scooters. We were just commenting on this the other day after witnessing such an incident. I said, I may be fatter than the woman that just walked out to her car after using the scooter, but I still walk my fat butt around the store and the woman that was at the register laughed and agreed, because she was on the chubby side as well.
May 22, 2012 at 2:21 am rating: 15
#25
a-Arialist
Too bloody right! I’m on the eighth floor and it takes flipping *forever* to get to the ground because of all the lazy sods who get in the lift to go up or down one floor. Walk, damnit! Anything three floors or less, I walk, four floors and I get the lift.
Having said that, I have nothing against fat people (being fairly hefty myself), but laziness winds me up.
May 22, 2012 at 3:06 am rating: 11
#26
Halla
Why would I care what some anonymous idiot judges me as? As if someone can ‘judge’ a person fat anyway. “OMG he’s totally using his Fat Judging superpower! Aaargh I just gained twenty pounds!!” Yeah, no.
Take the stairs, take the escalator. Go the wrong way on the escalator and pretend it’s a travelator. Spend half the day going up and down in the elevator and shouting ‘Wheeeeeee!’ like a big kid – it’s none of my business and they’re all perfectly valid methods of getting between the floors of a building.
May 22, 2012 at 3:34 am rating: 46
#27
Dane Zeller
* Other reasons to take the elevator:
You’re an infant.
You and your brother are conjoined twins.
You only get around by shuffling your feet.
You can recognize numerals on a button.
They are stairs built by Escher construction co.
May 22, 2012 at 7:12 am rating: 22
#28
fff
How the hell can you tell someone is injured just by looking at them? Oh, wait, you can’t. If you’re judging someone for taking the elevator by first sight, all you can tell is that you’re a bigot.
I’m fat, but I also have non-fat related problems that zap my energy- without elevators, I couldn’t go to school, because the walk up the stairs would take too much out of me. As I have only ever seen about 10 other people total on the elevator in the 4 years I’ve been attending this school, I know I’m not inconveniencing anyone else. And yet people like you and the majority of these commenters think it’s ok to judge me as a disgusting,lazy slob because I can’t take the stairs. Even if I could, what the hell stake do you have in it? Is your life really that affected by a stranger’s elevator ride?
May 22, 2012 at 7:23 am rating: 25
#29
Isabelle
Just how “healthy” is taking the stairs, anyway? Now, I bike commute year round, am vegan, don’t watch television and do a bunch of other obnoxious, self-righteous things, so I’m definitely on the stair-climbing tip. (And I work in a building where I have to climb a lot of stairs every day.)
Based on my extensive stair-climbing experience, I have to say that climbing the stairs once or maybe twice a day really isn’t that physically significant. I climb the stairs a ton every day, and even then it’s not a significant part of my physical activity. If you’re not climbing a LOT of stairs and you’re not doing it multiple times a day, you aren’t burning many calories or raising your heart-rate or increasing your lung capacity or building muscle. You might as well not bother. That’s why at the actual gym there are stair machines.
So why do we make a big fuss about people climbing the stairs?* I’d argue that it’s one of those dumb “common sense” things that serves as a symbolic gesture and statement of identity – “sure, it doesn’t actually make a real difference to do this, but I will do it to show that I understand and conform to social norms”. And of course, it’s also a good way to maintain the circuit of judgement/guilt that keeps people motivated – “I have to do this, or I might turn into one of those awful people, and then people like me would judge me because I would be awful”.
I’m sure someone else has pointed this out upthread, but there are also plenty of invisible disabilities out there. I sprained my ankle a couple of years ago, it never healed right and last winter it was kicking up something terrible, and there were a couple of days when I couldn’t do stairs at all. Then of course there are folks with heart defects or folks having a mild MS episode, or folks with sciatica, etc etc etc.
*At my job in a Very Tall Building in a Very Large Research and Medical Complex, it costs something like a dime to run the elevator for a complete floor to ceiling trip, and they implore us to cut use to save money.
May 22, 2012 at 8:12 am rating: 32
#30
JC
This is incredibly fucked up, and if I knew who posted that sign, I’d want to sit on them with my fat ass too.
And guess what geniuses: You can’t SEE every disability either.
I’m fat, but you can’t SEE if I’m having a bad allergy day. Sometimes people are just fucking TIRED.
And people who work hard and DO shit are sometimes entitled to be lazy.
In short, mind your fucking business. Get wound out about something else, because you’re a supreme dick if you get worked up about a fatty taking the elevator.
May 22, 2012 at 8:13 am rating: 30
#31
JC
And just because someone is fat, doesn’t mean they’re ‘lazy’ either. Trust me.
I have a sister who’s not fat, and she’s one of the laziest fucking people I know.
May 22, 2012 at 8:15 am rating: 26
#32
aj
Just a point – in every building I’ve worked in, the lobby stairwell doors are locked. You can get out of them, but not in – security reasons. If some company other than mine has the lower floors, I may not be able to get to their stairwell doors in order to climb the remaining floors to mine. Traveling within our floors, sure – take the stairs. But there isn’t always a choice in some buildings.
May 22, 2012 at 9:40 am rating: 8
#33
lazy
I hate the people at the office who take the elevator up and down from the 2nd floor. Skinny or fat, you ask me to push two and you will get some serious stink eye from me.
May 22, 2012 at 10:39 am rating: 6
#34
yolanda
I’m fat. I usually take the stairs if I’m going less than four floors. I usually walk or bike places. I usually carry things instead of finding help or wheels. I am very very active. I eat healthy moderate portions. You don’t know why I’m fat and it’s none of your business. You don’t know why today was a day I chose to use an elevator. Again, none of your business. Go mind your own business.
May 22, 2012 at 11:15 am rating: 34
#35
redheadwglasses
I remember in college, our dorm was a 10-story building, women’s floors were 1-3, men’s were 4-10. Women who took the elevators DOWN from the first or second floors were shunned by many. One guy would even tell the girls, “The only way you’re getting on this elevator is with a broken leg. Want me to give you one?”
May 22, 2012 at 12:36 pm rating: 2
#36
MandaT
I’m a bit on the fat side, and I take the elevator most of the time. I’m sorry, but the grinding sensation in my knees and ankles from sports injuries over the years (21+ years of playing softball, at least 10 of which were as catcher) is not exactly appealing. I go walking, I swim, and I occasionally run, but there are few things that gross me out more than that grinding feeling. Elevator, please! And if you judge me, I’ll tell you about my ankles and knees, and the polycystic ovaries that keep me from losing weight, and make it easier to gain, as well. People, stop freaking judging based on appearances!!!
May 22, 2012 at 1:16 pm rating: 13
#37
jason
The people in these comments are hella mad. What is it about this note in particular that has struck a nerve so deeply? Almost every note they post on here is a douchey overreaction and this is no different….
May 22, 2012 at 4:20 pm rating: 15
#38
RubySun
Stairs are a menace
May 22, 2012 at 4:34 pm rating: 1
#39
fuzzbutt
Hey LOOK AT ME!!! I look perfectly normal, maybe a little overweight, but guess what?? I’m handicapped! I can’t TAKE the stairs! I have a condition that isn’t visable, so don’t be judging me by the way the way I look! The doctor gave me a handicap parking plaque for a reason, I have to take the elevator for a reason. GOD I hate judgemental assholes who think because you “look” normal that you are just fine.
May 22, 2012 at 4:37 pm rating: 11
#40
me me me
This has to be the weirdest set of comments on PAN in a long, long time.
I started skimming half way through but, seriously, no sarky comments on the punctuation, syntax or grammar?? What’s gotten into your readers?
No outrage at the psychotic tendencies of someone who judges – and dismisses a whole class of people – elevator users – by leaving a note WITH A CARTOON and then tries to qualify their madness with an asterisk.
Instead we get a fit v. unfit and fat v. unfat debate as if there was a valid point in the PAN in the first place. Again, weird, I say.
Instead a
May 22, 2012 at 4:49 pm rating: 12
#41
tuqoa
Wow, that’s ridiculous. I’m 108lbs and I still take the escalator/elevator for a floor or two. It’s relaxing! People need to get over themselves and stop caring so much about stuff that is none of their business and have no idea about.
May 22, 2012 at 5:06 pm rating: 13
#42
Greg House
Yeah, everyone needs to mind their own damn business-you don’t need to know why people are taking the elevator or stairs.
May 22, 2012 at 6:26 pm rating: 7
#43
CC
Dear Sign-Maker,
Fuck you and the horse you rode in on, you judgmental illiterate fuck.
May 22, 2012 at 6:30 pm rating: 13
#44
sam
go ahead and judge me.
i really don’t care.
May 22, 2012 at 6:32 pm rating: 6
#45
Sduck
I have days when I’m so sore from exercise that I can barely lift my legs. And yeah, in that case, I’m taking the damned elevator to the 2nd floor. I don’t care if it means some whiner has to ride 30 seconds longer to get their pizza, beer and cheesy bread up to their 7th floor apartment.
May 22, 2012 at 7:08 pm rating: 4
#46
Dana
I am overweight. I have Lupus, and I get dizzy a lot. I also have PCOS, and a bad knee from an injury where I dislocated my kneecap and four years of not fixing it let to nerve damage and now near-non-existent cartilage on the back after surgery to remove the useless mush that was catching on my nerve endings and making my leg collapse. Yes, I try to use the stairs when I can, but some days, I just can’t do it. If you catch me on a bad day and I’m taking the elevator, well, all I gotta say is, if you’ve got a problem with that, you’re gonna get your ass handed to you.
May 23, 2012 at 12:24 am rating: 10
#47
angie
Ah, fat people. The last group it’s socially acceptable to discriminate against.
May 23, 2012 at 5:53 am rating: 13
#48
JC
Someone needs to make another sign for the assholes that don’t get it.
Your shaming of fat people is not going to magically make them ‘do’ something about it.
If they want to do something, they’ll do it on their own time, and not because some stranger was a dick.
May 23, 2012 at 8:14 am rating: 9
#49
Alyson O'Holic
Oh f*ck yes – I totally judge the people who take the elevator from the first to the second floor. Seriously?
May 23, 2012 at 11:40 am rating: 5
#50
T
I don’t LOOK impaired.
But I am.
I have Rheumatoid Arthritis, a debilitating condition where my immune system attacks the healthy tissues in my joints, resulting in irritation, redness, swelling, and extreme pain when weight or pressure is applied to the affected joints.
With a rigorous regime of expensive self-injections, NSAIDs (anti-inflammatory painkillers) and weekly doses of chemo drugs (with their own unpleasant side effects) for the rest of my life, I can, on some days, manage to get around just fine. I can do an hour on the elliptical, and another hour of free weights. Maybe even some yoga.
On flare-up days, it’s nearly impossible to move without wincing. Imagine a larger size of those squishy anti- carpal tunnel balls, rolled in broken glass, and inserted in your knee joint. Walking up stairs can sometimes feel like that. Every step up or down the stairs puts pressure on that joint, and makes me wince in pain, and it was hard enough for me to walk into the building from the parking lot.
Now, I’m no elite athlete. I’ve got more pounds than I should carry on my frame. But you’re wrong when you write me off as lacking in basic motivation. So, when you see me taking the elevator to the second or third floor, your hostile assumption that I am just plain lazy is incorrect, and makes you a HUGE asshole.
And you’re a HUGE asshole when you see me leave my car in a handicap space and assume I must’ve taken someone else’s placard because I’m not visibly limping or in a wheelchair, aka “handicapped enough to satisfy your narrow definition of disabled”.
But most of all, you’re a HUGE asshole for universally equating being overweight with being lazy and lacking in motivation. People can be fat and lazy, but one is never necessarily indicative of the other. Just like some skinny people are dangerously unhealthy.
TL;DR version: Feel free to mind your own fucking business, Little Miss/Mr. Elevator Nazi.
May 23, 2012 at 5:33 pm rating: 17
#51
Tatterdemalion
Plus five points for the footnote about people who are injured, in a wheelchair or carrying something heavy. Minus ten points for assuming they’ll know whether someone has an injury or not. I’m a size 8, under 30 years old, and get plenty of dirty looks for taking the elevator up to the second floor… and I also have an invisible systemic problem with my connective tissue. I REALLY REALLY want to exercise more, and I do when I can. But a too-long walk carrying so much as a laptop bag can lead to a debilitating tension headache, so I’ve learned the hard way that I need to be careful about how much I do.
May 23, 2012 at 7:37 pm rating: 7
#52
notolaf
My first thought was, “Pretty good handwriting for a drunken, callow ass.”
May 23, 2012 at 10:03 pm rating: 4
#53
Amy
Just an FYI, the mom from the book and movie “We Need to Talk About Kevin” used to talk shit about overweight people all the time. Did she create a bias in her son about overweight people or people who weren’t good enough? Hmmm… Something to think about.
May 23, 2012 at 11:10 pm rating: 0
#54
Mantis
This thread is full of sanctimonious hypocrites. We all judge others at first sight. We’re genetically programmed to do so; pattern recognition is critical to survival. You can pretend you aren’t judgmental, but that just makes you a big fucking liar. Maybe you don’t harshly judge fat folks, but I know there’s some other type of person the mere sight of which makes you cringe, laugh or seethe.
The problem isn’t that we have biases, but that so many of us are unable to see past them to what truly matters.
May 24, 2012 at 7:52 am rating: 12
#55
Beev
Fat people deserve ridicule and embarrassment. Daily.
Sure, it’s their choice to be fat. They have every right. I’ll still deem them worthless.
May 24, 2012 at 9:58 am rating: 4
#56
H for Toy
I feel like I know you all much better now. I know who’s 252 pounds and who’s 108. I know which of you has lupus, RA, asthma, weak ankles, and possibly, genital warts. I feel much closer to you all now, and I’d like to thank PAN for the opportunity to get to know you all, much, much better.
May 24, 2012 at 11:01 am rating: 11
#57
Comocat
What we really need is a PA note about fat people smoking in their poorly parked cars. That should easily break some records.
May 24, 2012 at 12:28 pm rating: 12
#58
Hopea
I’ll admit I’m fat. It’s not like I could deny it anyway… It is rather obvious.
And I take the stairs.
What do you say to that?
May 24, 2012 at 2:18 pm rating: 1
#59
Dana
My cat is fat. She takes the stairs at least 15 times a day. At top speed. She’s still fat, though.
May 24, 2012 at 3:25 pm rating: 19
#60
AlfaCowboy
You can’t judge me. Only God can judge me. Look, my neck tattoo says so. Stop being such a hater, you trick ass bustah.
May 24, 2012 at 3:39 pm rating: 1
#61
Nikita
I used to live on the 8th floor of a highrise (high rise by Winnipeg, MB standards anyway,…) and I took the stairs up to my apartment everyday,…
)
I’m also,… dare I say it,…. OH EM GEE…. ….. fat! (not morbidly, but I do okay
Why is it socially acceptable to be thin out of shape and lazy, but to be healthy relatively fit and overweight so offensive?
I’ve never had the urdge to comment or yell at underweight people for being “unhealthy”, yet it is proven to be much more dangerous as far as the impact on physical health,….
I guess I just don’t get it.
*shrug*
May 24, 2012 at 7:51 pm rating: 7
#62
anon
Because this nation doesn’t have an epidemic of skinny people that’s costing society millions of dollars in health care problems, that’s why.
Realistically, the number of people who have health problem correlated with/from being skinny is much, much less than those who have problems correlated with/from being fat.
May 25, 2012 at 9:12 am rating: 6
#63
Jenn67
When you have relapsing-remitting MS,
when you have a knee that randomly goes out on you while walking,
when you have 11 lesions in your brain,
when you have a lesion in your spinal column that can lead to paralysis,
when said lesions cause stumbling and balance issues,
when temperatures over 95 sap you of all energy, and
when walking DOWN the stairs to get to your car totally exhausts you,
ONLY then can you judge me for taking the elevator up or down a floor. Otherwise, STFU.
May 25, 2012 at 3:43 pm rating: 6
#64
El
One semester in school I had to take the elevator up single floors. No one at my university does this unless in a wheelchair/on crutches or carrying big loads. People looked at me like I was the worst.
However I had been in a major car accident that summer where I was flung from a vehicle going 70 miles an hour. I broke my coccyx and I severed my ACL in my right knee. Looking at me I looked fine (I’m about 30 pounds over weight but most of that came from not being able to walk much anymore much less exercise over the summer, since January I have lost 20lbs because I got my knee fixed) but actually I was in a ton of pain and had been told by my doctor to take the stairs as little as possible.
Appearances can be deceiving, but mostly it just plain isn’t anyone’s business.
May 26, 2012 at 1:02 am rating: 8
#65
Sorcha
You know, I have to say that despite the occasional douchey comment in here, I found this thread very heartening. At a lot of sites, the comments would be just as full of fat-shaming and meanness as the original note, but not here. As a fat person with multiple chronic conditions that prevent me from doing more than taking the occasional walk, the “you don’t know what someone’s health is like” and the “it’s none of your business” comments make me feel better about humanity. That’s usually the opposite of what happens when you read comments on the Internet.
May 26, 2012 at 2:47 pm rating: 13
#66
mostlynotfat
just because the apartment you found is on the second floor doesn’t mean you have to pretend you live in a crappy walk-up. take the elevator. are others so lazy they cant wait for the doors to open and close?
May 26, 2012 at 10:16 pm rating: 2
#67
Snoofy
So instead of making a sign, why didn’t the PAN-writing idiot *take the freaking stairs?*
First time post here. Hi everybody. Want some delicious cheese?
May 27, 2012 at 3:37 am rating: 1
#68
Shaydie
I don’t appreciate this. I look young and fit but have pulmonary fibrosis/sarcoidosis of the lung/rheumatoid issues and will take an elevator one floor in a flare up. Nice to know there are people silently judging. Same people who let me stand on a 40 minute bus ride even though I have a disability pass because my legs are fine.
May 27, 2012 at 11:38 am rating: 1
#69
Person
Elevators are just fun! I d0n’t come across them often so when there’s one, use it even if it’s only a floor and i’m perfectly capable of taking the stairs.
May 27, 2012 at 2:28 pm rating: 1
#70
vegangeekgirl
Actually people who are really overweight shouldn’t take the stairs because it doesn’t help that much and can create havoc on their knees (I got that from a doctor and are not just making things up) a
nyway I don’t see the big deal if somebody for whatever reason don’t want to take the stairs.
I sometimes take the stairs but not that often, my balance is off and well let’s just say I fallen down and up quite a lot of stairs in my days.
We live on the 4th floor and most of the time I can’t be bothered with the stairs.
Also in some houses that where built before there was a law that said that you need to have an elevator in houses with a certain amount of floors the elevator and shaft is installed after the house is built which means that what little is left of the stairs really sucks and most people avoid them at all costs.
May 27, 2012 at 8:40 pm rating: 3
#71
Snoofy
My dorm had six flights and no elevator. It was built before the laws. The hike wasn’t fun in summer. There was no air conditioning in any of the buildings either.
So why didn’t the note writer take the stairs?
May 29, 2012 at 12:32 pm rating: 1
#72
acheyknees
Kindly keep your judgements to yourself. I may not be visibly disabled or injured, but if the osteoarthritis in my knees could talk, it would be screaming at you to fuck the hell off.
Jun 12, 2012 at 2:43 pm rating: 1
#73
Skippy
I have congestive heart failure, but am quite thin. You would not know it to look at me that it is impossible for me to walk up 2 flights of stairs on some days. So what would this person say to me? That I’m lazy? Yeah, the old “walk a mile in someone else’s shoes” fits here. They can keep their opinions to themselves IMO.
Jun 22, 2012 at 6:12 pm rating: 0
#74
Sass
I wouldn’t say people are fat because they take the elevators to floors 2 or 3, it just seems lazy, especially if you’re a perfectly healthy looking young person. Especially because waiting for the elevator can take longer than walking up to the second floor of some buildings…
Jun 28, 2012 at 5:08 am rating: 0
#75
Sez
I live in Christchurch NZ where stairwells are often cracked to pieces. Every time I have to decide between a lift and a staircase, I imagine another earthquake hitting and which one I’d rather be in. The lift always wins somehow.
Jun 28, 2012 at 4:38 pm rating: 0
#76
red
FUCK that bitch. I have asthma.
Jul 9, 2012 at 2:12 pm rating: 0
#77
beepershairstudio.com
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Nov 17, 2012 at 8:44 am rating: 0
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