jmcquown wrote:
I find it amusing that people who appear to be
> perfectly capable of walking take the "moving sidewalk" in airports. Okay,
> maybe they're tired.


Reasons able-bodied people use moving sidewalks in airports: They have
luggage. Capable of walking, they're not in perfect shape for carrying.
The sidewalks are fun and novel. The world glides by in a way it
otherwise doesn't. You don't have to watch where you're going. Also,
being in an airport and flying in general are annoying. There are
people who don't mind flying, but I don't know anyone who enjoys it.
Everything about the process is a hassle. It is hard to put a word to
this feeling, but flying and being in airports and going from one flight
to another leaves me somehow vaguely wanting my money's worth. If the
moving sidewalks are there, I'll use them because I have a right to.
Airports do that to me.


--Lia