March 25, 2025 • 8 mins
In an unfortunate series of events that led to an old lady getting taken out by Fitzy's luggage, we hear some of your escalator horror stories.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Fitting and Whip with Kate Richie podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I want to talk about I got on a flight
yesterday and something an absolute disaster. So I hate.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
First of all, I've got a surbulence.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
No, I sit in row for sometimes, if you're lucky
enough to sit in row Forslan. No, it's not. It's
the row behind business class you get extra they're charging you.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Now.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I have about all these extra fees you got to
pay now to get seats.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
What do you mean seat selection?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
I'm an extra rows now cost thirty five bars. Yeah,
they've put that up and they've done it with Row
four now as well. But every now and then I
can snag one because I get the extra leg room.
And as the plane landed yesterday and there was a
lady quite posh.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
She was in business and as.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
I got up to go get my bag, she was
staring at me.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
What's she staring up before? Brother?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
And I'm thinking, God, did you vote for Trevor? Who
did you vote for? And she said Merlin? And I said,
I said are you okay? And she said, my hats
up there?
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Do not?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I hope your bag hasn't gone on to my hat?
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Watch my hat?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
So I said, no, your hat's fine here it is
these your hat. It was a beautiful for.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
I don't know hats anyway.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
So anyway, when I was at the airport, right I'm
going up, I make escalators are starting to freak me
out a little bit here as well. So we were
talking about this before escalators go up travelators, let's try
to go across across horizontal, right, but escalators will Tommy,
didn't you just bring up as well that you're not
supposed to wear crocs on escalators or traveler.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah. Particularly it's Sydney Airport. They have a lot of
there's warning signs last year, the particularly kids the crocs
are getting careful of the crocs on there evators. It's scary.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Right.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
So I'm going up an escalator. So I've got my
carry on bag right, and you know you've got the
handle that you pull up that you can actually and
then you wheel you carry on bag. I get onto
the escalator, I put my carry on there with the
handle up. Then I get my backpack out and I
had to put my sonnies in their case in my backpack,
(02:14):
so I put the sunnies in the case, put the
backpack on as I go to swing my backpack back
onto my back. I've knocked my carry on luggage. It's
not tumbling down the escalator and it's on the back
of it, so it's nice and flat picking up speed
and it's going down like a roaring trail. I'm not joking.
(02:36):
There's an old lady about fifteen steps down, and it
was I'm not joking with It's like slow motion. She
could see it coming, and unfortunately she was elderly, so
she just.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Couldn't get out of the way. I've taken it legs out.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Oh no, this was not the woman with a hat
in her carry on. Well, no, I did deliberately throw
your suitcase at a woman because of a incident.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
So she okay, no, Well, I was so apologetic and
I said she was fine. She only needed her left
leg amputated. Right one was fine, and the escalator did that.
And there was a I looked over and there were
so many people that sort of rushed over and said
you okay. She was tough. She was like, no, eveything's fine,
(03:21):
that's fine. And there was this one guy. I remember
as I'm getting up, and I felt so bad, and
I could see this guy in the corner with just
a smirk on his face. He thought it was the
funniest thing he's ever seen. And did you say, not funny, mate,
it's not funny. You should go and.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Try and help it.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Did you video at it because we could win Funniest
Stone videos with that one.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
It could be a bit of coin in it. And
did he did she get wheeled off in a wheelchair?
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Or was she okay? Was she able to walk? Escalators?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
We got to talk about escalators because there's they can attack.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
We had Tash Belling on the phone and on the
show a while ago and she had fallen down one
and the damage to her leg. You know how it's
got those grooves in it, tongue and groove as it
goes around the corner.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
She had those.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Marks all the way down her leg.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Have you unbelievable?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Have you been a tax by an escalator before? What
have you seen on a travelator an escalator? Caroline in ride?
What happened? Caroline?
Speaker 5 (04:19):
So I was going down from escalators during my lunch
breakdown at Braangaroo and my skirt got caught in the side,
so I had to yell out for somebody at the
bottom and suppress the emergency stopped and they came running
through me, but we couldn't release my skirt. As my
skirt was then coming down my legs. I thought I
was gonna lose my skirt. Oh, so someone had to
(04:41):
come out from the shop next door and actually cut
me out. Oh my god, the bottom of my skirt skirline.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
You had underpants on, didn't you.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
Thank God.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
I'm just thinking because you imagine it would have felt
like you were about to be eaten. So it would
have been like, oh my god, if the skirt has
to come off.
Speaker 6 (04:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
Yeah, it was a little bit embarrassing.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Yeah. Wow.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Luckily someone was there to the emergency button, because if
you were down the bottom, it just would have made
straight off Caroline.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
They would have been a great video.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Julie in men I escalator attacks Jewels.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
Yes, I was on the travelator at a shopping center
in South Village and I had a trolley full of
shopping and the wheels didn't lock, you know, the shopping
tooles wheel should lock, didn't lock, so it took off.
Oh no, pace, sir, And it got to the bottom
and it flipped over and I flipped over the top
of it. But there was glass plate windows at the end,
(05:41):
so I had visions of it smashing through the glass
plate windows. And again luckily there was no little child
or lady. But my kids actually want CCT footage.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Yeah, you know, Julie, I think about that. I think
about that all the time. Even though the wheels lock
up on the trolley, I always hold onto the handles, thinking, imagine,
it's the thing ran there's one hundred kilos of food
in here.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
I can't hold it well.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
I locked it actually locked initially, and I was putting
my phone into my wallet, and yeah, I just sort
of let go for a foot second and it took
off and I thought I had it. I said, my
arms were going and it just got to the bottom
and flipped and I went right over the top of it.
Had I broke my right coat, big coat, and bruised
up the inside of my arm.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
But yeah, the vibe, I mean, it's it worth a
bit of a laugh now, Julia, are we time plus
tragedy equals comedy.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
Definitely definitely made the kids call me unco.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
You know, great, as long as they're ripping into you,
that's good for great story.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Julia dominating Legano.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Let's talk about escalators. What do you got done morning?
Speaker 3 (06:44):
I've had three separate in three separate incidents of kids'
shoes getting stuck in a particular shopping center in Sydney,
both of my kids, five years apart, pulling their shoes
out of me.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
It's got a cross stole shoes.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Pulling them out. Plus I was behind another a seargeil
and it's like shoe and the sock wall stuck and
we're pulling out frantically and everyone's screaming in the middle
of the shopping center and the escalators right in the middle,
and it was just.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
I'm trying to picture how a shoe gets caught in
the escalator.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
That's those little teeth at the end.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
He's got any of the shoes that have those kind
of holes, but the crocs and them like any of that,
because there's like sometimes you can get those kind of
booty shoes, but they still got the hooks and they
get caught in the.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Escalator, right and so not you're talking about just where
the escalator rolls over at the end, or you're talking
about on the sides right when it.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Comes to the end, very bit for the kids, which.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Just goes to show I think the most important lesson
there is that even escalators hate crocs.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Yeah, the escalators are doing their bit for the community
by trying to eat the crocs off the kids.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
They actually program the tram relators to actually eat crocs
as soon as there's another take them. It's in Whipper
with Kate Ritchie is a Nova podcast great shows like this.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Download the Nova Player via the App Store or Google Play,
then overplayer
This is the Fitting and Whip with Kate Richie podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I want to talk about I got on a flight
yesterday and something an absolute disaster. So I hate.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
First of all, I've got a surbulence.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
No, I sit in row for sometimes, if you're lucky
enough to sit in row Forslan. No, it's not. It's
the row behind business class you get extra they're charging you.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Now.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I have about all these extra fees you got to
pay now to get seats.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
What do you mean seat selection?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
I'm an extra rows now cost thirty five bars. Yeah,
they've put that up and they've done it with Row
four now as well. But every now and then I
can snag one because I get the extra leg room.
And as the plane landed yesterday and there was a
lady quite posh.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
She was in business and as.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
I got up to go get my bag, she was
staring at me.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
What's she staring up before? Brother?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
And I'm thinking, God, did you vote for Trevor? Who
did you vote for? And she said Merlin? And I said,
I said are you okay? And she said, my hats
up there?
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Do not?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I hope your bag hasn't gone on to my hat?
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Watch my hat?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
So I said, no, your hat's fine here it is
these your hat. It was a beautiful for.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
I don't know hats anyway.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
So anyway, when I was at the airport, right I'm
going up, I make escalators are starting to freak me
out a little bit here as well. So we were
talking about this before escalators go up travelators, let's try
to go across across horizontal, right, but escalators will Tommy,
didn't you just bring up as well that you're not
supposed to wear crocs on escalators or traveler.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah. Particularly it's Sydney Airport. They have a lot of
there's warning signs last year, the particularly kids the crocs
are getting careful of the crocs on there evators. It's scary.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Right.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
So I'm going up an escalator. So I've got my
carry on bag right, and you know you've got the
handle that you pull up that you can actually and
then you wheel you carry on bag. I get onto
the escalator, I put my carry on there with the
handle up. Then I get my backpack out and I
had to put my sonnies in their case in my backpack,
(02:14):
so I put the sunnies in the case, put the
backpack on as I go to swing my backpack back
onto my back. I've knocked my carry on luggage. It's
not tumbling down the escalator and it's on the back
of it, so it's nice and flat picking up speed
and it's going down like a roaring trail. I'm not joking.
(02:36):
There's an old lady about fifteen steps down, and it
was I'm not joking with It's like slow motion. She
could see it coming, and unfortunately she was elderly, so
she just.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Couldn't get out of the way. I've taken it legs out.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Oh no, this was not the woman with a hat
in her carry on. Well, no, I did deliberately throw
your suitcase at a woman because of a incident.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
So she okay, no, Well, I was so apologetic and
I said she was fine. She only needed her left
leg amputated. Right one was fine, and the escalator did that.
And there was a I looked over and there were
so many people that sort of rushed over and said
you okay. She was tough. She was like, no, eveything's fine,
(03:21):
that's fine. And there was this one guy. I remember
as I'm getting up, and I felt so bad, and
I could see this guy in the corner with just
a smirk on his face. He thought it was the
funniest thing he's ever seen. And did you say, not funny, mate,
it's not funny. You should go and.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Try and help it.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Did you video at it because we could win Funniest
Stone videos with that one.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
It could be a bit of coin in it. And
did he did she get wheeled off in a wheelchair?
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Or was she okay? Was she able to walk? Escalators?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
We got to talk about escalators because there's they can attack.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
We had Tash Belling on the phone and on the
show a while ago and she had fallen down one
and the damage to her leg. You know how it's
got those grooves in it, tongue and groove as it
goes around the corner.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
She had those.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Marks all the way down her leg.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Have you unbelievable?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Have you been a tax by an escalator before? What
have you seen on a travelator an escalator? Caroline in ride?
What happened? Caroline?
Speaker 5 (04:19):
So I was going down from escalators during my lunch
breakdown at Braangaroo and my skirt got caught in the side,
so I had to yell out for somebody at the
bottom and suppress the emergency stopped and they came running
through me, but we couldn't release my skirt. As my
skirt was then coming down my legs. I thought I
was gonna lose my skirt. Oh, so someone had to
(04:41):
come out from the shop next door and actually cut
me out. Oh my god, the bottom of my skirt skirline.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
You had underpants on, didn't you.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
Thank God.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
I'm just thinking because you imagine it would have felt
like you were about to be eaten. So it would
have been like, oh my god, if the skirt has
to come off.
Speaker 6 (04:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
Yeah, it was a little bit embarrassing.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Yeah. Wow.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Luckily someone was there to the emergency button, because if
you were down the bottom, it just would have made
straight off Caroline.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
They would have been a great video.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Julie in men I escalator attacks Jewels.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
Yes, I was on the travelator at a shopping center
in South Village and I had a trolley full of
shopping and the wheels didn't lock, you know, the shopping
tooles wheel should lock, didn't lock, so it took off.
Oh no, pace, sir, And it got to the bottom
and it flipped over and I flipped over the top
of it. But there was glass plate windows at the end,
(05:41):
so I had visions of it smashing through the glass
plate windows. And again luckily there was no little child
or lady. But my kids actually want CCT footage.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Yeah, you know, Julie, I think about that. I think
about that all the time. Even though the wheels lock
up on the trolley, I always hold onto the handles, thinking, imagine,
it's the thing ran there's one hundred kilos of food
in here.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
I can't hold it well.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
I locked it actually locked initially, and I was putting
my phone into my wallet, and yeah, I just sort
of let go for a foot second and it took
off and I thought I had it. I said, my
arms were going and it just got to the bottom
and flipped and I went right over the top of it.
Had I broke my right coat, big coat, and bruised
up the inside of my arm.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
But yeah, the vibe, I mean, it's it worth a
bit of a laugh now, Julia, are we time plus
tragedy equals comedy.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
Definitely definitely made the kids call me unco.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
You know, great, as long as they're ripping into you,
that's good for great story.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Julia dominating Legano.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Let's talk about escalators. What do you got done morning?
Speaker 3 (06:44):
I've had three separate in three separate incidents of kids'
shoes getting stuck in a particular shopping center in Sydney,
both of my kids, five years apart, pulling their shoes
out of me.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
It's got a cross stole shoes.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Pulling them out. Plus I was behind another a seargeil
and it's like shoe and the sock wall stuck and
we're pulling out frantically and everyone's screaming in the middle
of the shopping center and the escalators right in the middle,
and it was just.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
I'm trying to picture how a shoe gets caught in
the escalator.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
That's those little teeth at the end.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
He's got any of the shoes that have those kind
of holes, but the crocs and them like any of that,
because there's like sometimes you can get those kind of
booty shoes, but they still got the hooks and they
get caught in the.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Escalator, right and so not you're talking about just where
the escalator rolls over at the end, or you're talking
about on the sides right when it.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Comes to the end, very bit for the kids, which.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Just goes to show I think the most important lesson
there is that even escalators hate crocs.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Yeah, the escalators are doing their bit for the community
by trying to eat the crocs off the kids.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
They actually program the tram relators to actually eat crocs
as soon as there's another take them. It's in Whipper
with Kate Ritchie is a Nova podcast great shows like this.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Download the Nova Player via the App Store or Google Play,
then overplayer
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