Motion-activated escalators. Yes, you read that right. Of course, you might have already encountered these but this girl? Newly acquainted. I mean, I get the reasoning behind it, conservation of energy and all, but. BUT. If a business installs a MOTION-ACTIVATED ESCALATOR, they might want to post a freaking NOTICE. Then people like me who are uncoordinated and klutzy on their best days don’t approach the unmoving escalator and…wait. You know what? Let’s just do it this way:
Step 1: la la la, I need to hit the upstairs portion of the KMCC, oh, here are the escalators!
Step 2: How strange! This escalator does not seem to be moving! Oh well, a little stair action never hurt anyone!
Step 3: Here I go, placing my foot onto this STATIONARY DEVICE!
Step 4: La l…WHOOOAAAAA WTF! WHAT IS GOING ON!
Step 5: (Rapid flailing whilst trying to maintain balance)
Step 6: Is this…motion activated? What the hell?! Did anyone see me? I feel like laughing sheepishly. Ha ha ha.
You can be assured that when it was time to utilize the down escalator, a little ORM was applied. Seriously, though. A sign. I am klutzy.
This has been such a busy week! I shipped my car, , , ….
Hmm. Actually maybe it wasn’t such a busy week. I can’t think of anything else I did. It FEELS like it’s been a busy week, okay? I did ship the car though, and got a rental for the remainder of my time here. It’s a German-spec VW Passat wagon and holy CRAP does it drive nice. I don’t want one or anything but man it doesn’t even feel like I’m driving. And it goes SUPER fast, like 0-900000 in one second. ALSO, it has backup sensors, which is annoying but I’LL ADMIT helpful for me the inattentive backer-upper.
Another thing I did this week was drop my iTouch in water, and now the touch screen doesn’t work. Everything else works, up to and definitely including the alarm, which now goes off at least every hour on the :45 mark for a LONG TIME. Fortunately it is the the ‘Ascending’ alarm and not the
…oh ooops. I just had one of those times when I get up to do something and forget I’m in the middle of a post. Anyway so what I was saying is it’s a good thing it’s the ‘Ascending’ alarm and not the ‘Alarm’ alarm because it would be even MORE annoying than it is. I’m hoping once it dries out it will work, and right now I have it in a bag of uncooked rice to absorb any moisture per the forums (all of them). Of course these forums include posts like:
“o kno u guz i dropped my ituch n da water n da screen went wite it sux whut cn i do? i wiped it off nd at da smetim tryn 2 switch it off…please..hw cn i turn it on n when will it work or how 2 make it worK!! please..sme1 help!!!”
So we’ll see how that goes. FYI: writing like that is stupid.
ALSO. We (well, John) did a little thing yesterday called closing on our mother-f’ing HOUSE. So exciting! I’ve been doing a lot of (online) shopping for refrigerators and washer/dryers, and for a replacement sink. I can’t wait to move in!
So we went to the Heidelberg zoo today, Lindsey, Taylor, Lexi, James and I, and had a kick-ass time! It was a lot of fun, even though it was cold and cloudy and wet and muddy. It took us about four hours to see the whole compound, with additional time spent in the monkey house. Where we were ATTACKED BY A MAD CHIMPANZEE! Yes, it’s true, and I have video. Which most of you have probably already seen via my Facebook, but JUST IN CASE:
Does that work? Did I actually get something to work in my blog? It looks like it works from here…Hot damn! Four + years later, I might be figuring this stuff out.
Anyway so this guy was just chillaxin in his little monkey hut, and as we were watching he got up and walked over to the play area and grabbed a ball. ”Oh look!” I said, “He’s dribbling that ball! Awwww!” The rest you can see for yourself but trust me when I say that in the video, our reaction seems toned down. Which it was not.
Afterwards he went to his original location and started kissing the window. I would put my hand up to him and he would put his there too, and we made faces at each other for awhile until his faces started looking slightly menacing. At this point we weren’t messing around when this guy started looking pissed so off we went.
On the way home we were all tired and cold and boy the drive really sucked for me but look! We all made it back alive somehow with no issues. Really.
