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[toddytodd]

Have people become even more lazy in the past few years? On the elevator at work, people use it to go up and down one flight. Many times, it is the people who need to walk the stairs. Of course, there are those who can't walk the stairs. I find it hard to believe everyone of these people can't use the stairs. Also, my work has handicapped doors - push a button an the doors open slowly. There are a few people in my building that require this. For them, or for people that have their hands full (vendors, maintenance guys, etc) these are great. I have lost count how many times I have had to stand behind someone with no handicap and empty hands, while the door opens slowly because they don't want to physically pull open the door.

Perhaps it is just the area I live in....?
Any thoughts?

[The Comrade]

toddytodd wrote: Have people become even more lazy in the past few years? On the elevator at work, people use it to go up and down one flight. Many times, it is the people who need to walk the stairs. Of course, there are those who can't walk the stairs. I find it hard to believe everyone of these people can't use the stairs. Also, my work has handicapped doors - push a button an the doors open slowly. There are a few people in my building that require this. For them, or for people that have their hands full (vendors, maintenance guys, etc) these are great. I have lost count how many times I have had to stand behind someone with no handicap and empty hands, while the door opens slowly because they don't want to physically pull open the door.

Perhaps it is just the area I live in....?
Any thoughts?


it's kind of sad.


at the college here there's the original college which is now called sheldon hall(it's circa 1700 or something) and they recently put in an elevator. it's three stories tall, but the stairs go up to the second floor(huge marble stairs like the capital building)stories and according to a professor i know a ton of kids wait on the third floor for five minutes for an elevator to take them one floor. now i don't know about everyone else, but i can walk three blocks in a minute if i walk normal. i could be out of the building and in my next class by the time those kids get their elevator.


it's really sad what's happening to the world of late.

[VBach37]

The elevator is required for handicap access. But you're right, those kids are lazy. I live on the fifth floor of my dorm, and it baffles me the number of people who take the elevator to the 3rd floor. I always take the stairs down, unless I'm carrying something heavy. I usually only take the elavator up if it's already on the ground floor, waiting for it takes almost as much time as taking the stairs, expecially since our elevator s*cks.

[agentkgb]

I heard of someone once who took an elevator up five stories to get to a gym to use a stairmaster.
I use the stairs unless I'm carrying something heavy or it's some huge building and I need to get up to a floor way up.

[mODULAR mAN]

toddytodd wrote: Have people become even more lazy in the past few years? On the elevator at work, people use it to go up and down one flight. Many times, it is the people who need to walk the stairs. Of course, there are those who can't walk the stairs. I find it hard to believe everyone of these people can't use the stairs. Also, my work has handicapped doors - push a button an the doors open slowly. There are a few people in my building that require this. For them, or for people that have their hands full (vendors, maintenance guys, etc) these are great. I have lost count how many times I have had to stand behind someone with no handicap and empty hands, while the door opens slowly because they don't want to physically pull open the door.

Perhaps it is just the area I live in....?
Any thoughts?

Same thing happens in my building. Stupid people. Most of them are fat, or sloppy.

Now, maybe some of them are fat because they have some injury, but if not...
TAKE THE STAIRS, FATSO!!!! :evil:

[Protostar]

I'm one of these "lazy" elevator taking people. If the elevator didn't work at Harrelson hall at my uni, I would seriously contemplate not going to class. Screw walking up those mountain of stairs. I also get a strange satisfaction of occuping the elevator by myself. I've also been known to use the handicap access buttons on buildings because opening the door takes to much work.

[micfranklin]

Eh, I'm not one of those people who refuses to take the stairs, but however this morning I refused to go to my first class, on account of me being sleepy.

[mathurin]

oh man, i have a class on the 4th floor
doesnt sound too bad, and shouldnt be, but these stairs are killer, i have no idea why but these are the worst stairs i have ever gone up, i really dont get it

im not fat, but i have put on some extra weight, i go out of my way to park farther away, just so i walk more (dont give me no crap about not driving, i live 10 miles from the nearest town, at least 3 miles of which is gravel)

[patrickt]

Lazy usually means someone doesn't want to do something you do want them to do.
A doctor asked me once if I exercised. "Only if it's incidental to doing something I enjoy." My wife thought I was lazy because I didn't want to spade and cultivate and weed "her" garden when I got home from work.

Where is the line between convenient and lazy? I cook my oatmeal in a crockery bowl and then eat out of it. That way I have to wash only one bowl and a spoon. I don't have a dishwasher--human or machine. Is that lazy or convenient?

I haven't written a letter in years. Email is so darned convenient, or is it that I'm lazy?

[LostSoul3412]

I'll respond later...

[The Grandmaster]

Patrick does have a point. What is lazy, and what is convenient?

[LostSoul3412]

The Grandmaster wrote: Patrick does have a point. What is lazy, and what is convenient?

Lazy is... meh.

Convenient is... whatever.

[Red Flag]

I firmly believe that the technology we use breeds laziness, and apathy. Look at yourself right at this moment, typing away on a machine that really serves you no purpose besides entertainment... and maybe knowledge in some very RARE cases. If we were living like true animals then we would be hunting for a major part of the day. Running through fields, scaling rocks and chasing wild beasts. You'd see no obesity back then.

[The Grandmaster]

Red Flag wrote: I firmly believe that the technology we use breeds laziness, and apathy. Look at yourself right at this moment, typing away on a machine that really serves you no purpose besides entertainment... and maybe knowledge in some very RARE cases. If we were living like true animals then we would be hunting for a major part of the day. Running through fields, scaling rocks and chasing wild beasts. You'd see no obesity back then.

Then what you are doing posting on this forum, calling those who would do so lazy when you now must be the same thing?

Get off the computer, sell your house, car, go live in the woods, eat grasshoppers and s**t, and wipe your ass with leaves then. Otherwise, you must be lazy.

[F'losrix]

toddytodd wrote: Have people become even more lazy in the past few years? On the elevator at work, people use it to go up and down one flight. Many times, it is the people who need to walk the stairs. Of course, there are those who can't walk the stairs. I find it hard to believe everyone of these people can't use the stairs. Also, my work has handicapped doors - push a button an the doors open slowly. There are a few people in my building that require this. For them, or for people that have their hands full (vendors, maintenance guys, etc) these are great. I have lost count how many times I have had to stand behind someone with no handicap and empty hands, while the door opens slowly because they don't want to physically pull open the door.

Perhaps it is just the area I live in....?
Any thoughts?
Just because someone looks like they're fit enough to climb stairs or open a heavy door, that doesn't mean they are. I get this crap all the time from people who tell me "You're still young, you should take the stairs", etc. You can't tell an asthmatic by looking at them. I don't wheeze all the time (thanks to daily medication), but a walk up a flight of stairs is enough to get it started. I'm still trying to train my boss to understand that just because I'm out of breath, it doesn't mean I'm agitated or upset about something. It just means the elevator is out of order, or that I momentarily forgot that I can't move as fast as I did in my youth.

My sister has nerve damage from being hit by a car and struck by lightning (twice). The upshot is that there are certain arm movements that cause her intense pain. But to look at her, you wouldn't initially think she has a reason to use the automated door button.

I'm not saying there aren't lazy people out there. Just asking that you think twice, three and four times before making judgments like this based on appearances. The person you might think is in perfect health may in fact have physical problems that aren't readily apparent and that they don't go around publicizing.

Edit: Oh, and some of those people you think are fat? They just might be having weight issues due to stereoid or other medications. A friend of mine had thyroid cancer last year and she has balooned, allegedly thanks to her meds.

[Red Flag]

The Grandmaster wrote: Red Flag wrote: I firmly believe that the technology we use breeds laziness, and apathy. Look at yourself right at this moment, typing away on a machine that really serves you no purpose besides entertainment... and maybe knowledge in some very RARE cases. If we were living like true animals then we would be hunting for a major part of the day. Running through fields, scaling rocks and chasing wild beasts. You'd see no obesity back then.

Then what you are doing posting on this forum, calling those who would do so lazy when you now must be the same thing?

Get off the computer, sell your house, car, go live in the woods, eat grasshoppers and s**t, and wipe your ass with leaves then. Otherwise, you must be lazy. Dude im not saying I don't love technology, im just telling everyone what would happen if it wasn't there to begin with.

[LostSoul3412]

Red Flag wrote: Dude im not saying I don't love technology, im just telling everyone what would happen if it wasn't there to begin with.

We'd all be dead without technology.

[mathurin]

Red Flag wrote: I firmly believe that the technology we use breeds laziness, and apathy. Look at yourself right at this moment, typing away on a machine that really serves you no purpose besides entertainment... and maybe knowledge in some very RARE cases. If we were living like true animals then we would be hunting for a major part of the day. Running through fields, scaling rocks and chasing wild beasts. You'd see no obesity back then.

i dont know about you but i learn alot on this forum
and computers have done incredible things for human advancement in all fields

for me, possible obesity is a small price to pay for effectively removing ourselves from the food chain

[The Grandmaster]

Red Flag wrote: I firmly believe that the technology we use breeds laziness, and apathy. Look at yourself right at this moment, typing away on a machine that really serves you no purpose besides entertainment... and maybe knowledge in some very RARE cases.

Oh, I forgot to mention. All computers are are entertainment and fun huh? That's odd. I pay my rent, electricity, gas, cable, insurance, and eat, because of what I do on a computer.

Seems like paying the bills might be another purpose those glorified playstations are good for.

[ieatfood]

What's wrong with being lazy?

Capitalism is about freedom. People should have the freedom to be as lazy or as hardworking as they want. Who the hell are YOU to judge them?