Hi Wide-O

Yep, even as a healthy child, getting on and off of escalators presents challenges. I used to get panicky getting on and off but loved riding them.

I wanted to be an elevator operator when I was a very young child. I was amazed when I found out they got to ride an elevator all day and got PAID for the fun. By the time I was a teenager, elevator operators were a thing of the past. There went my childhood dream. Now I have a phobia about elevators. HATE being in an elevator now, so I go for the escalator and hope I get on and off without injury.

I do agree that escalators present a physical challenge but my phobia of elevators is even more of a challenge to me these days. I wonder how I went from wanting to ride elevators for a career to now being in fear of them. I guess all it took was a few bad experiences and the topper, ... having learned of a patient being wheeled into an elevator on a gurny in the hospital near my home get killed due to an elevator mishap.