When you have the choice, would you choose stairs or elevator?

Now that is an interesting point too! I think some stairs are made so steep that when you are going down them, if you don't have size 6 feet or smaller, your foot is so large and the steps are so steep, you completely lose your equillibrium. It can be scary. Are those the type of stairs you mean are scary to come down?

Tehehe...I once knew a guy, he was a volunteer firefighter and VERY energetic. He was lead maintenance guy at the apartment community where I worked, and he had a saying that you may like ~ He would say (about himself) "give the laziest man the hardest thing to do and he will find the easiest way to accomplish it." Of course, he wasn't lazy, but he was funny. Do you think that way, too?

okay, so how many flights of stairs is too many flights for you? What would be the maximum that you would be willing to walk up? Are you not convinced that the more stairs there are the better it is for your heart and that your heart actually requires exercise for optimum results, or is that just something you take for granted? I'm not judging, I think we all take it for granted.

That is something that many of us probably know but rarely think of, the joint thing. Stairs are the more healthy choice, I know. and I don't mind them if they aren't closed in. Thanks for your post.

And are you weight concious? I don't really know that taking the stairs every occasionally will keep you from gaining weight, but certainly if you ran stairs for 30 minutes every day you would boost that metabolism. This is an interesting point, though. Does anyone know for sure?

AHA! And was that fear induced by too many movies with frightening elevator scenes or just your own vivid imagination? Do you find it interesting that your answer is completely unique. That out of 10 other respondents, only 2 people so far have said they would take the stairs? I find it very interesting. Well, I'll keep reading and see if it averages out. Thankss for your post.

As I suspected, so far the majority of us go for the modern convenience of the elevator. We are willing to trust this machanism, put together by the hands of moral men (as the first poster pointed out so graphically) to function properly and get us to the place where we want to be, and we do it without much thought at all, I think. So far, convenience over health has the lead.

istanto, you are certainly not alone in your decision. I really thought that more people would choose the stairs, due to the more health concious society that we are suppose to be living in now. But I'm beginning to think we are only health concious if it takes little to no effort to be that way. ;~) Istanto, are you health concious? do you choose healthy foods?

And do you actually think about the exercise part of it when the choice is there, or do you just take the elevator and then once you're on it and the doors are closing, then think, "Hmmm, I could've taken the stairs, I guess." That's probably more of what I would do. I would think of the stairs but usually only as an afterthought.

We have all become very lazy. You are certianly not alone in that! Thanks for your post.

I am also lazy with stairs.

Definately? You have no question that, given the time to walk up them, given a not-so-overwhelming amount of flights of stairs, you would absolutely, without a doubt take the elevator, either way? why do you think that is? Is it just that we have become spoiled and don't put out the effort or is it because we just don't really think of it much.

HA...That's easy for you to say! I am a grown woman with children who are grown. STILL, I am scared of the dark. I tell myself, there is nothing to fear but fear itself, and that sometimes works for me, but usually I have to go back to scripture to overcome it. I have fear in this world, that's for sure. It has all been instilled, though, at some point of my life. Most of them, I can pinpoint to the day. Are you a 'NO FEAR' kind of person?

Without even thinking about the health issues, I think most of us would take the elevator. I do it for a different reason, to me the stairs are eerie, but I think most people, even thought they see others taking the door marked "STAIRS" they just, out of habit, take the elevator. Thanks for posting.

Who can blame you! Thanks for posting.