It really pisses me off everytime I see a fatass or a lazy person using an elevator at the mall. I’m in a wheelchair and I need to use the elevators but half the time its full of fat bitches or just people who are too lazy to use the fucking escalator. Its a staircase that moves for you! Better yet maybe you wouldn’t be so damn fat if you actually used the stairs.
—Shut out of elevator.
This article appears in Mar 19-25, 2009.
Hey, its not fatty’s responsibility to care about you.
Not their fault you’re crippled either. Pfft.
eh. I was heavier when i had my knee accident, and despite being able to walk on level surfaces, I couldn’t handle the stairs (going up or down). I’d use the escalator, but I’m not ripping my injured knee apart for anyone. I’m sure I looked like I was being lazy, but quite frankly I didn’t care.
Also, why should someone go to the other end of the mall to use an escalator when they need to get to a store by the elevator?
The elevator is for everyone to use, man and until they put a “only strollers and wheelchairs allowed”sign on it, it’s fair game.
They could be fat, lazy, have high blood pressure, fibromyalgia, bad knees, bad feet, bad back, and hey, some of them could be fat from organ transplant steroids for all you know. Or just plain, flat out tired. Most of them would probably defer to you getting on if you politely asked, and you’re still capable of waiting your turn. The elevator will come back, I promise.
Somehow I doubt that the fat people in the elevator are actually suffering from a myriad of health problems. The staircase is right next to the one in HSC and its what, 2 flights? I guess I just wouldn’t be so quick to give these people the benefit of the doubt. They are the same lazy people pushing the wheelchair button instead of opening a door. And if your knee was going to “rip apart” by going up stairs, why would you even risk it by going shopping? Sounds kind of overly dramatic.
I agree with hellakitty. You know the OP isn’t down on those with physical difficulties. He’s specifically is referring to “fat assess and lazy people”.
How ’bout healthy, skinny people who take office elevators up one fucking floor? Those are the people I’d really like to kick in the arse with a steel-toed boot.
Hey OP, run over their fat feet! HA HA .
Why can’t the others (fat, lazy, have high blood pressure, fibromyalgia, bad knees, bad feet, bad back) use the escalator?
Eventually, the world will be overrun with PORKERS – OINK OINK
I agree with the OP , I actually submitted a bitch about the same thing over the holidays. There was no room in the elevator for parents with strollers or wheelchairs, because it was full of people who didn’t want to walk up the escalator(it was not working at the time). Its funny people say what if they were hurt one way or another also, give me a break we all know most of them are just plain lazy period …
you make me sick. some of these fat asses and lazy people you see may have cancer, diabetes or somother under the surface disability that makes them unable to take the stairs. Wheel chair or not. You of all people should have learned not to judge people.
Wow, judgemental, much?
The elevators are for whoever wants to use them, whatever their reason is. Like PK said, until there’s a sign saying they’re for wheelchairs and strollers only, anyone can use them. My god, it’s a mall, the elevator will not take long to come back, are you that impatient to wait?
C’mon people, he’s (I’m assuming OP’s a guy) not hating on injured people, parents with strollers or others with legitimate reasons to use the elevators – only people who are too fat or lazy (and more often than not, both) to use the stairs or escalators.
He’s in a WHEELCHAIR, that’s the only way he can move between floors. Before you go telling him to wait his turn like everyone else, consider how difficult it is to get around already, without having to watch perfectly capable people take the laziest route up one or two flights. Ever hear of empathy? Try considering it before you call this person impatient.
And by the way, why do fat people always take such offense when they are called out for shit like this? “Hey, maybe they have diabetes”, “Some people have different biochemistries and can’t help it”. True enough, but you know what? Most of them are just fucking FAT. Period. And it’s decisions like taking elevators every chance they get that keeps them that way.
That’s an ignorant bitch, no doubt about it.
For the amount of people ragging on fat people, I’m amazed that I’ve never noticed an abundance of fat people on the elevators…mostly young people, families and disabled people. Perhaps people are taking this to far and just using this as an excuse to pick on fat people?
People in wheelchairs want to be treated equally as able bodied people, or so they say.
Bullshit.
Sit and wait your fucking turn, crip. Just like everyone else.
I think its really pathetic that some people would rather stick up for and make excuses for the fat/lazy people than empathize with the person in the wheelchair. Its obvious whose writing these comments. Most likely the fat/ lazy people who hog the elevators!
Redhawt you are obviously an ignorant shit.
Short_cutie, you are obviously a labeler who takes bitches and their responses too seriously
Some people have diabetes and other weight problems and cant control how morbidly obese they may be. So you wheelchair people stop thinking you deserve all the sympathy because there are other people with worse problems out there.
Stop eating cupcakes and take the stairs!
I have kidney failure but I can still empathize with wheelchair people. Its called having a heart.
Hellakitty: different actions move different muscles and put different amounts of pressure on different muscles and tendons/ligaments. I could walk on flat surfaces fine, but stairs, especially going down stairs hurt like fuck. Lifting one’s self up and down via the knee (i.e.: putting more weighted pressure on your knee) puts more strain ON the knee. The fact that I gained 20lbs from not being able to work out didn’t help. Please go rip your ACL and MCL apart and tell me how easy it is for YOU to go up and down stairs. I think you’d be surprised.
As for the “fat person” element of this bitch, it’s not all sunshine and cupcakes for everyone trying to lose weight. Sometimes our bodies just won’t budge weight wise no matter what we do, and carrying around extra weight would tire anyone out. Sure there are lazy fatties out there, but there are some who are trying and/or don’t stuff their gobb with shit 24-7 who just can’t lose any fucking weight.
I’m so sick of people bitching at fat people for being lazy slobs. Not every fat person out there is a lazy slob; some actually try!
I can also guarantee the OP (or any one of you bitching about fat people using elevators) wouldn’t be bitching, or doesn’t get annoyed when thin people use the elevator. Don’t deny it, fuckers.
I get annoyed when anyone uses the elevator unneccesarily, regardless of whether they’re fat or thin, for the simple reason of wasted time.
The library is a great example, where almost guaranteed if you are on floor 3 or above and going down, you’ll be stopped on the second floor and some lazy ass will step on. The time it took to press the button, wait, hop on, wait, and hop off would be twice what it would take to just walk down the big ass set of stairs right beside you. In the meantime, those people actually descending more than one flight have to wait for your ass to shuffle on and then resume the trip for the final four seconds.
Am I the only one who enjoys walking down stairs? Walking up’s not quite as fun, but at least you feel like you’ve accomplished something.
This bitch is so annoying! And Pretty Kitty is dead right- all this ragging on fat people is so irritating and ignorant.
I have a new baby and as much as I would love everybody to accomodate me all the time, such as when I’m trying to get on the elevator with my stroller, I realize that people have their own situations, their own agendas and are not likely thinking of me. But people usually always respond with kindness if you ask for something nicely- that is all you have to do- like when I was in the mall last Valentines Day:
Me: “Excuse me but the elevator keeps coming full up, and I can’t get down any other way with the stroller. Would anyone mind making some room for me?”
Reply: ‘Oh!! Yeah of course, no problem- go ahead!”
Problem solved.
Scooby Doo’s right: when asked, most people won’t be assholes about letting people with strollers/in wheelchairs go ahead. Instead y’all’d rather bitch about people using the elevator who are fat/lazy/slobs/horrible human beings/etc… who honestly can’t read your fucking mind. People are usually accommodating if you ASK. Don’t expect the general population to read your mind: most of them are too stunned to figure it out for themselves.
Why are people getting so defensive about fat people? The OP said “Fat assess AND lazy people” Lazy people could be anyone. Like me, why just last week I found myself taking the elevator up one flight. I’m probably considered skinny even though my weight is right where it should be for my height. I was so ashamed at the time I almost wanted press a few more buttons higher and walk down. I was up and down those stairs a number of times that day already and shit I just got tired and LAZY. Big deal. 98% of the time I take the stairs. I wouldn’t be getting on that elevator if there was a wheelchair waiting and no room for them for fucks sake. Why is common sense such a challange here?
All of you should quit siding and look at the bigger picture. No matter if your overweight or in a wheelchair, if your elderly or pregnant – or ‘normal’, just fucking make space and be polite to people who need access the most. Jesus.
#@%$ and Dino, common sense is a challenge now because it isn’t as common as you’d like to think.
It is the age of the bubble kids. Most live in their own world which owes them everything and takes nothing from them.
Times they be a changin’
This past holiday season I was waiting in line at the cinnamon bun place at HSC (right next to the elevator). This family (grandma, mom, dad and 3 kids) were out doing their holiday shopping. They were about to head down the stairs when the man said to the grandmother “Here mum, let’s take the elevator down”. He pushes the button and the door opens. She gets on and just as he’s about to get on she puts her hand up and says “You can walk your lazy ass down the stairs Jim, it’s not that far” and let’s the door close in his face. My friends and I lost it and so did the guy’s wife. It was awesome!
I concur with zZz about people living in their own little worlds these days. It is quite a thought to think what the world would be like if common sense was indeed just common sense.
Me too Dino- I’m so busy and tired all the time- like everyone else out there I’m sure; often when I’m out in public I’m busy either thinking about what I need to do next or else I’m daydreaming as I try and get home so I can relax. From what we all hear, things used to be alot slower back in the ‘olden days’. ADD isn’t the only modern day epidemic- impatience is too. And impatience breeds anger- as in anger towards the people and things getting in our precious way and making all the shit we try and do in one day take even longer. I think we’ve become obsessed with the stuff we see as getting in our way as being issues of morality- like: ‘It’s just SOOOO inapropriate for someone to take their double stroller to the crowded saturday market!!!’ (How fucking judgemental is that!!)
Well stroller or not, I’m going to keep taking the elevator if I feel like it- even for only one flight. And if I’m blocking someone who has no other option, they can just ask me to make room and I’ll happily and politely do so.
But let’s think about this – why is any given elevator constructed in the first place? It’s not to give perfectly capable people an exciting new option to travel between floors. It is to a) in the case of tall buildings, provide a quick and efficient way to transfer people MORE THAN ONE storey; or, b) provide a quick and efficient way to move bulky items, custodial and maintenance equipment, and people physically incapable of using stairs ONE OR MORE stories.
If you have no reason to not take the stairs, why would you take an elevator for anything less than two flights? That’s the epitome of laziness, short and simple.
Anyone who clearly NEEDS to use an elevator shouldn’t have to ask, it should be painfully obvious, and embarrasing to stand there beside them on your more than adequate legs.