to want lifts all to myself

[onemiddlefinger]

I commute to central London with my DS in a pushchair, thankfully the stations I use have lifts (several of them to take each time), and those lifts are slow. So if you miss it, it's another 5 min wait (which is not that bad, but when going home after a long day every minute seems like forever)
AIBU to be annoyed at people who take up space in the lifts when they could be taking the escalator, obviously I'm not talking about the disabled, the ones with young kids (even if walking), the ones with luggage etc, it's the ones that don't have anything wrong with them other than usually being overweight.
Why, oh why do you prefer to queue up for the lift that takes forever rather than stand on the escalator - you don't even have to walk more, if anything it's probably less walking! Is there such thing as fear of escalators and is it very common?
I just don't get it, before DS I had never used a lift in the underground.
AIBU?

Sirzy i did already admit i didn't realise so many people could have health issues that prevent them from using escalators and that are not visible.

You scored the comment out because you knew you were making a dig at fat people being too lazy to use the escalator, don't pretend otherwise!

dexter73 but are they?

I'm sure not all of these people have hidden disabilities or escalator phobia! YANBU to think that those who don't are being selfish/lazy.

Realistically what the heck has it got to do with you why anyone else wants to use the lift?

You'd never know that I have massive pain when I walk...I don't limp...but I can't manage stairs. Stop judging OP.

No they aren't. They have chosen to use the lift instead of the escalator. That is all. It has nothing to do with their size.

Have a few pints of Guinness and a vindaloo the night before and clear the lift with a fearsome fart.

Alternatively get over yourself. It's none of your business why anyone else chooses to use a lift.

Well there's nothing "wrong" with your physical health that would preclude a trip up the escalator either.

Maybe all those fatties are secretly judging you and in a parallel universe there's a thread on another forum all about it.

movingsoon23 i also didn't think so either , and although i have accepted i am BU, but a part of me would still like to know if they really all have hidden disabilities.

Sirzy not so much why, but more that it's just annoying to have to wait for the next one when you don't fit in and makes me wonder why can't they just take the escalator. But yes, now i know possibly why.

So sling the ds and take the escalator.

YABU.

Squoosh's comment made me snigger.

I was also imaging being stuck in a lift with someone with awful bo for 5 mins

Although I dislike your comment about overweight people I sort of agree with you

Although I dislike your comment about overweight people I sort of agree with you

MaryYellan True, and i would happily use it, but i won't risk my child's health by balancing his pushchair on the escalator, which i think is not actually allowed either.

I wonder what they would be saying. "All those babies in buggies are really getting on my nerves using the lift, why can't they just crawl up the escalator! Kids today are just so lazy!"

YABU, there's no rules on who and who can't use the lifts.

Funnily enough DD is scared of lifts, so we always take the escalator

I think the lifts are there for everyone to use. If somebody wants to use a lift then they should. But . I agree with putting your child in a sling and then you can use the escalator and not clog up the lifts.

So all overweight people must be lazy according to you OP. Charming.

So sling the ds and take the escalator.
Do i really need to carry my 18kg DS in sling so i could break my back and then have a valid reason for being in the lift.
(and yes, he is 18kg, but still only 20months old, so not safe to walk on the escalator).

Just had loads of comments saying anyone can take the lift if they want to, but now end up explaining why i should qualify for lift use. I sort of thought that having a kid in a pushchair is pretty fair reason.

The use a sling comments were because you are trying to judge need. You don't need to use the lift because there is an alternative. You can use it because they are available to anyone wants to but the only people who need them are those with disabilities/illnesses which mean they can't use the stairs or escalators

Smoolett
These were not my words. Dexter went digging for offensiveness and my response to him was sarcastic.
But i have noticed that most people who i encountered using the lift (with a possible hidden disability) were overweight - so what?
Is this something that must not be said?

OP, there are lots of lazy arses and fat people who could really do with some exercise and I doubt everyone on the lift has a phobia or a hidden disability as everyone on MN claims.

You know it, they know it. I remember seeing a group of women in high heels (so I doubt they had any back/whatever issues) taking the lift and making a couple of people on a wheelchair. It's really the 'me first' culture and you see it everywhere, even on the buses, etc.

Escalators don't require anymore effort than standing in a lift. So the "fat people are lazy" thing doesn't ring true at all.

But i have noticed that most people who i encountered using the lift (with a possible hidden disability) were overweight

Oddly enough, disabilities can make exercise difficult and people can therefore gain weight. Some medication also causes weight gain.

You'll never know which people are disabled, which are phobic, which are plain knackered and which are - by your reckoning - "lazy", so for the sake of your own blood pressure I think it's probably better not to worry too much about the reasons for other people's actions.