Moderately Confused by Jeff Stahler for February 17, 2023

Analogue staircase?

Needs a file clerk.

Seeing this strip, I can’t help but think of the MTA/LIRR escalators, which are often dysfunctional, sometimes for weeks, even the extra-long new ones in Grand Central Madison have been broken already. Strange that the 100-plus-year-old oak escalators in Macy’s Herald Square still work fine.

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That is one heck of a name for a band.

Is that the corporate weasel word for stairs….

Going up the down staircase. An old movie, you wouldn’t understand.

Back in my Air Force days, I was working airlift out of a small, remote airfield in Korea about 1/4 inch from the DMZ (on the map at least). When I got there, there was a stack of pallets on the ramp where I needed park some incoming aircraft.

I contacted my Korean counterpart and conveyed to him that I needed them moved. I expected that he would find a forklift and move them. Instead he came back with a dozen ROK privates. They got on the sides of the pallets, squatted down, got a grip and on the count of whatever Hangul for three is, stood up. They then shuffled the off to Buffalo or at least the side of the ramp.

This impressed me on how mechanically minded Americans and Europeans are. When we need heavy lifting, we get a machine to do it. Asians use bodies.

I’ll never forget being stuck on one of those things during a power failure at the mall. The most harrowing twenty minutes of my life!

I think acoustic will be my favorite adjective for awhile.

Moderately inconvenient.

LOL!

“Escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.”

— Mitch Hedberg

Funny how those stairs are hard to use manually, the pitch is just wrong.

Yet, still useful. And some prefer it.

Elevators become traps when power removed – escalators just become stairs. After being trapped twice in elevators in two months, I nearly always take the stairs. No claustrophobia, just not getting planned activities done while stuck there.

“Unplugged”

Old school!

Called “stairs”.

‘Sounds’ like work to me, and I’m allergic to that!

Very clever!

Abstruse. Or maybe recondite.