No really.\u00a0 On behalf of grown up children everywhere who worry about their elderly parents, I have to call this one out.<\/p>\n
I was working at the junction the other day. Coming out of the office, I saw a woman in her 70\u2019s in a bike helmet sitting on the concourse floor at the top of the escalators.\u00a0 She\u2019d fallen. \u00a0I helped her 70 + husband lift her up, collect her bicycle and sit her down in the waiting room.\u00a0 She seemed mercifully unhurt.\u00a0 But I had to write a report so I asked them what had happened.<\/p>\n
Apparently having discovered that there were no trains on their line, they planned to cycle to the station they wanted. So far so good.\u00a0 But deciding to see if they could take a short cut through the station, they set out to take their bicycles down the escalators to platform 1.<\/p>\n
“I forgot to put on my brakes and I lost control of it,” she said.<\/p>\n
I was furious.\u00a0 Visions of broken hips and necks danced in my head. Thank God she herself hadn\u2019t made it onto the escalator when she lost control!\u00a0 Thank God there was no one else on the escalator at the time!\u00a0 Didn’t they realize how dangerous it was to take a bike on an escalator? (not the mention against the rules)<\/p>\n
I was a paragon of self-control and did not use the word \u201cstupid\u201d as in \u201cAre you two completely stupid?\u201d once. I probably I didn\u2019t need to.\u00a0 When I suggested politely that next time they use the lifts, they got very defensive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
No really.\u00a0 On behalf of grown up children everywhere who worry about their elderly parents, I have to call this one out. I was working at the junction the other day. Coming out of the office, I saw a woman in her 70\u2019s in a bike helmet sitting on the concourse floor at the top …<\/p>\n