Escalator

It is never good when the old hometown gets mentioned online:

it does look long and steep but hard to tell

https://eu.jsonline.com/story/news/2024/06/30/it-just-broke-loose-what-the-brewers-escalator-accident-felt-like/74260968007/

My mother had a phobia about escalators.  I never got the whole story on why but all I know is that she never rode escalators when I was a kid.  When I would go shopping with her to downtown Milwaukee we would always either take the stairs or an elevator at the department stores.

It was no big deal until the folks started taking trips to Europe.  There were some places like airports or train stations where she had to take the escalator - there was no choice - so she finally learned a way to take them.

But she never liked escalators - I can just hear her response in my mind if this had happened when she was alive:

"See ?  I told you"

I can kinda see why people might be squeamish about escalators, all those interlocking metal bits in motion puts me in mind of an industrial bread slicer !

source: https://www.empirebake.com/picomatic-one-table-top-bread-slicer.html

Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm