#2 Run up an Escalator the Wrong Way

I remember the husband doing this in Top Shop once. I nearly died laughing. It looked hard and the husband is considerably fitter than I am. And he was going down an up escalator, which is the easier half of the deal.



In doing many of these 'things' I have discovered that I am in fact a bit of a scaredy cat and am frightened of situations which might get me into trouble. So I didn't fancy following the suggestion the book gives of using an Underground escalator - way too many people and the escalators are, like, really long on the Tube. So, instead I chose a really short escalator in a little used entrance to the Oracle shopping centre in Reading....

It is all of 5 steps in length. I squared up to it, watching the grey metal relentlessly roll towards me, and made a bid for it. I underestimated how much the exercise would mess up my sense of balance. Regardless of the effort of running up a down escalator, made worse by much laughing, my eyes, legs and brain were all registering different things. It made me feel quite seasick and I tumbled towards. This freaked me out immensely as I was wearing my hair down and was gripped with a terrible dread of my hair getting sucked under and some truly gruesome events unfolding. Also, someone was coming towards the escalator, clearly wanting to descend. I was in the way and going nowhere fast. So, I gave up.

Yes, I know I technically shouldn't get a star or a tick for this one, but I did give it a go and I figure, if I couldn't do it there I wouldn't be able to do it anywhere. And I really did try, it's just that it's really hard!

So, I'm giving myself a star anyway, so there....