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From: Paula.Mack@f6.n377.z1.fidonet.org (Paula Mack)
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Subject: Re: using escalators
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Date: 21 Sep 90 15:14:57 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

 WW>          I have always been against taking a dog on an 
 WW>        escalator.  I TG>     understand that most schools now 
 WW>  do this training and that TG>  they have new escalators that 
 WW>  do not have that big opening at TG>  the top and bottom, but i 
 WW>  still feel better not using them, TG>  unless there is no 
 WW>  other way to get to where I need to go.
 WW>     I'd like to respond to your message and give you my ideas, 
 WW>  but you pretty well summed it up in your message!

Hi,

I don't mean to be redundant, but this issue has bothered me for a
while.  the first time I went to GEB they said that we should never take
a dog on an escalator even if we had to carry the dog instead.

the second time I went, their tune had totally changed.  However, I
still didn't feel comfortable with it and still don't.  It just seems
that the way they teach you to sort of hurry and push the dog off at the
last minute wasn't safe.  it was as if they were saying, "Well, I guess
you must know how to do this, but hurry and get it over with when you do
it, because it's not really safe.

As a consequence of all this, I still avoid escalators like the plague.

Paula

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