It ATE it!

[badseed1980]

So there I was, on the B line, going to work. My train pulled into Government Center station, my stop. I put away my knitting and got off the train. I headed for the escalator. As I am generally an impatient person, I jogged up the escalator. When I reached the top and stepped off, I felt my left sandal slip off my foot. I went to pick it up, but saw that the toe of it was caught in the gap between escalator and floor. WTF??? I tugged and tugged, but couldn't get it out. I went over to the token booth and announced, "The escalator has eaten my sandal!" The woman there called up an inspector. Before the inspector could arrive, a nice man managed to pull out my sandal. The toe was shredded, but it would at least stay on my foot. When the inspector came, I assured him I wasn't in any way hurt, and flopped off to work.

I think what happened is that the sandal, slightly loose, slipped forward as I was lifting my foot to clear the gap, and it stayed there while my foot went up. Bah. Now I have to go to DSW and get a new pair. I just hope to god there's something decent left there at this point in the season!

Comments

[tisana.livejournal.com]

Perhaps it was going for your toes but only got the shoe? In which case, give that gallant shoe a special place above the mantle. Evil people-munching escalators. Stairs are better...I only ever trip on them.

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

Perhaps. Evil.

I like escalators because if I run up them, I'm moving the fastest out of all the options.

[cypherpunk.livejournal.com]

Heh. I was going to say something similar. I'm always paranoid of being that guy who gets eaten by the escaltor, like my parents assured me I would, were I to fuck around on there.

-C-

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

And if you kept making faces like that, your face would stay that way. Right?

[cypherpunk.livejournal.com]

Of course. And Santa was always watching and waiting... watching and waiting...

God. Santa was such a fucking communist.

-C-

[p-firesinger.livejournal.com]

Nah, Santa is a peeping tom stalker.

Hungry Hungry escalators

[dee-cee.livejournal.com]

A few months back, I dropped my work badge on the State Street Escalator, right at the top, and it got jammed in there. I, too, did the tugging, and nothing happened. Someone else stopped the escalator so we could at least get the badges off the lanyarnd. I called the T when I got to work, but they had no log of a stopped escalator. In any case, the next day it was working again, the lanyard was gone, but there's still a few strands of fabric from where it was stuck...

Re: Hungry Hungry escalators

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

I just got the exact same pair of shoes that got ruined! They were on sale! Admittedly they were half a size smaller, but the old ones stretched.

escalator madness

[giffin.livejournal.com]

These beasts must be stopped! An escalator in Roma took a chomp out of my toe. Scared the crap out of Monica when I came back bleeding all over the place.

Re: escalator madness

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

Yikes. Ok, I got off easy. I even managed to replace my sandals with a new pair of the exact same kind, on sale.