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Name: Graham
Location: Oakland, California, United States

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June 7, 2006

Rant - Laziness

I will have to paraphrase here, but this quote from Desmond Crisis really sums up some of the anger(?) I am feeling about lazy people.

"Moving sidewalks [and escalators] are for improving your ambulatory efficiency, not for allowing you to keep your lazy lifestyle."

I was thinking about this quote this morning when I was coming up from BART. Normally there is a nice unspoken agreement (at least during
commute hours) that you stand on the right and walk on the left. There was a person about 6 bodies ahead of me that stood in the middle
with a little rolling briefcase (what is the deal with those?). They managed to block the whole escalator and slowed the mass of people trying to
get on at the bottom.

Now I know that I am not the same as everybody else. I live on the 4th floor of my building and walk up and down the stairs unless I have
something heavy to move. I like to walk up the escalators! Why does the lazyness of one person affect me so much? Maybe it is the
inconsiderate nature that reads as "I don't care what other people would like to do" that gets to me so much. If I had been right behind that
person, I would have said "Excuse me" and walked up past them. As it was, I whas the sixth of many people whose lives were affected by one
lazy thinking and acting person. Ergh.

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