How to use Escalators - Treat them like stairs!

I remember as a small child that if ever I wanted to go from one floor to another, in just about any type of building, you often had no choice but to use the stairs. In larger buildings, ie public buildings or shops with more than one floor, there was more often than not a lift as well. In those days the lift wasn't necessarily a public lift it was more a goods lift with manually operable doors, but if you asked nicely and flashed your child in a pushchair or you may even be unfortunate enough to be in a wheelchair yourself then with a staff escort you were able to hop floors with relative ease. 

Also when in other large public buildings like railway and bus stations you may have found yourself on platform or gate 1 but needed to be at gate 101. The only option you had to get there was the tried and tested simplest method of human transport called WALKING. Once again if for some reason you genuinely were unable to walk that sort of distance, help was often at hand by a staff member to drive you there on the back of a small yellow or orange electric tractor thing which beeped annoyingly until you reached your destination just a couple of hundred meters away.  
Later on with the increase of air travel and the literally massive growth in airports the "Travelator" or "Moving Walkway" was introduced. These were essential for moving large amounts of people often with larger amounts of luggage (these were the days before someone had the brilliant idea of putting wheels on suitcases) from A (duty-free) to B (gate 33, often with another smaller duty free, just in case you had already run out of cigarettes) quickly and calmly.
These days however rather than having just the odd escalator here the odd travelator there they seem to be popping up just about everywhere. In some ultra-modern towns and cities, they might as well do away with pavements or "sidewalks" (if you get my drift) altogether. To make things worse, (now this is the silliest bit for me) whenever people's feet make contact with such devices they immediately stop walking! Why? Why can't you simply continue at your own normal pace? Walking does NOT take effort and its good for you, it's nature's natural exercise. I really am a very laid-back kind of person, I am never late, purely because unless I am catching a plane for example I don't need to be anywhere at any particular time. I know that is a luxury most people don't have but I really do notice when I am meandering around in my mico chasm I call life when people break my flow by standing still in my way. 
You could say to me "well hey, why don't you take the stairs in future Buddy?". The fact is I do, whenever I can but more often than not the stairs are tucked away somewhere under a sign saying "Emergency Use Only". Even at airports with a full rucksack I walk (often without the travelator) perhaps we should try it sometimes (all times, and don't get me started on people's waistlines either, and the amount of energy they waste). It will NOT kill you! If it does kill you were going to die anyway.  Namaste.