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    When confronted with a choice of taking the stairs or the elevator, which do you prefer?

    I find that I can get to most areas within a building more quickly by taking the stairs, as there is no elevator wait, plus there's the added benefit of exercise.
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  • #2
    Depends on how many floors. One or two, stairs for sure.

    My motivational level is inversly propotional to the number of floors

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    • #3
      I'm with John on this one.
      "Only Nixon can go to China." -- Old Vulcan proverb.

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      • #4
        I hate elevators! I don't give a fukk! For the most part I will use stairs. Sometimes you have to use elevators when you're with a group of people.

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        • #5
          Elevator. Bum knee.
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          • #6
            It'd certainly have to be quite a few floors to be called excercize. Well.. maybe for some you old timers... ;)
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            • #7
              One or two floors, probably the stairs. Any more than that would be cruel and unusual punishment for a septigenarian.
              Able to leap tall tales in a single groan.

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              • #8
                Stairs - hands down as long as it is 7 floors or less.
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                • #9
                  Depends on the building...two flights or less and if I am alone I will take the stairs.....if mini-me is with me, I would sooner take an elevator up three stairs (yes, stairs, not flights of stairs) than to have to wait for her highness to prance up the steps.

                  Also I tend not to like to be alone in stair wells often.
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                  • #10
                    It depends. 3-5 flights, one elevator in the building, it is usually the stairs. Several elevators, floors immaterial, carrying a bike or a full book bag, take the elevator.

                    Just because it's there. I'll walk a mile, completed suited in scuba, if I have to, if there is no camel to carry the stuff. I go where the work needs me to go and I'll take whatever transport there is to get there.

                    ALTHOUGH, having almost been trapped in an elevator, at night, as the sole occupant, where I work during quasi power supply ....... in those situations, 7 floors or not, it's the stairs.
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                    • #11
                      i live on 13 floor, when i go to work, i take stairs down, when i come back, i take the elevator, when i take chucky out, we take elevetor down, but to get back we almost always take stairs up, chucky needs work out, up to 7-8 floor, he is far ahead of me, then, he stops, waits for me, and follows me up to our floor.
                      if it wasn't for him, i'd probably never take stairs up to 13th floor.
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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by THL View Post
                        I tend not to like to be alone in stair wells often.

                        I don't know the statistics, but from a personal point of view, a stairwell might provide more personal protection than an elevator. Meaning, there are many exits as opposed to just one, one can go in either direction quickly and while its easier to loose balance on a stairway, there might be more of a fighting chance. I've passed on elevators with its passengers for the reason the people inside just didn't "feel right" and waited for another to arrive. Then again, it's all personal preference.
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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Debbie View Post
                          Stairs - hands down as long as it is 7 floors or less.

                          7 Floors!!!!! dang I'm impressed!!!

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                          • #14
                            Personal preference is probably right. I don't think the 'system' interprets either one as an escape route, primarily, so the first response would probably be to bring maximum to bear and take him out. The stairs would be more dangerous.....for him. From above, I can take out his knees, face. From below, I can drop and magnifiy the throw.
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                            • #15
                              Four floors up, stairs.

                              (Most of the buildings in the residential areas in my area are not more than four floors. And the builders to save cost usually don't add the lifts (elevator); at least, the older buildings. So, it has become a habit).

                              More, it is the lift.

                              Coming down, most of the times by the stairs.

                              I live in my own bungalow which has only the ground floor, so gardening gives me my exercise!


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