People using lifts

[Aquarius1619]

I’m actually a bit annoyed at myself for being petty enough to post this.
But this really got under my skin today!! I have an 11 month old who isn’t keen on the pram, will sit in there for 15 minutes or so but as soon as I stop moving she has a meltdown.
So we were waiting for the lift as we were parked on floor 5 in the local shopping mall today and I was stood behind a queue of people waiting to use the lift. People with no shopping, no kids, just didn’t want to use the stairs. And it took 20 minutes for me to get in the lift because each time it would come to my floor it was full of people with no kids, no wheelchairs, no walking sticks so then we’d wait for the next one then one of the people in front of me with nothing to carry would get in it. I know every disability isn’t visible either but FFS I’m talking a load of people here. By the time some of them had eventually got in the lift it would’ve been quicker for them to have walked up and down the whole place! Meanwhile DD is having a meltdown because we’d been stood around for ages. Is it unreasonable to expect people to just use the stairs and free up the lifts for people who actually need them? If I have no pram with me I always use the stairs

If the lifts were there for the sole reason of specific groups, they would be blocked off from public use. Just like some older buildings.

*"Don't wanna keep waiting for lifts?"
Durex🛌

NRFT to all intents and purposes you wouldn't let me in the lift. You can't tell but I need that lift to get to the toilet before I have an 'accident'. I might be quicker using the stairs but I can't because my knees are in horrendous pain and they hurt so badly when I bend them. All you see is the small blonde, suited and booted with hair and make up done not giving you priority access to the lift because you have a kid who doesn't like its pram.

Because they stop those who actually need the lift from using it.
And because it would help solve the obesity crisis.

Um any person can need the left, be that for injury, disability, age, illness or the simply CBF using the stairs, the lift is for ALL
A pram is no free pass to cut the line.

lol or like not, people taking a lift once a week when they shop wont change anything.