It's the little things in life

You’re on the first level of a shopping centre.

There are 2 escalators. One for up, one for down. One faces North (ish), the other faces South (ish) (Could be East and West, but you get the general idea. Directions aren't really my thing). One is broken, one is not.


Imagine for a moment, if you will, that you are me, and have just witnessed the following scene:

Three people walking up the North facing escalator, grumbling loudly because it isn’t working, then, upon reaching level one, looking across at the top of the South facing escalator and realising that the ‘up’ escalator is fully functional and they just walked up the broken ‘down’ one.

Tee hee.