I was going down to the subway yesterday and a guy jumped onto the escalator and then came flying backwards, did a Barry Sanders-like spin move, and got onto the one right next to it and went down into the bowels of the station.
How is it possible to get onto the wrong escalator? Under what scenario does this happen to a human being?
Not to get all personal, but this is my usual response to the presence of an escalator: 1. walk up to it. 2. see which direction the stairs are moving. 3. if the stairs are moving in the direction I want to go, proceed cautiously onto escalator. 4. enjoy the ease and comfort of the moving stairs.
Reasonable enough, right? So what could have happened here?
1. The guy was blind. Or maybe he suffered from rare but dangerous motion-blindness, and isn't capable of sensing the direction of moving stairs. If either one of these are the case, he should, by default, get on the escalator to the right of the other escalator.
2. He had never seen an escalator before. Maybe this was his first experience with one. Evidence for: he jumped backwards off the thing like it had bit him. Evidence against: how quickly he got onto the opposite escalator.
3. He was indeed Barry Sanders and he was just showing off for the subway crowd. Evidence for: truly exceptional spin move. Evidence against: he was white and tall and Barry Sanders never showed off.
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