OH IT IS A CONTEST
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davis_squareSeeing as how Davis Square's Worst Escalator (the platform-to-turnstiles T escalator closest to College Ave) is now fixed after like two or three weeks, I have a suspicious feeling that it's just gonna break down again. The darn thing couldn't stay working for three days in a row all winter.
So I hereby propose a contest, and I shall name itSquishy
No, I shall name it
DAVIS SQUARE'S WORST ESCALATOR BUSTIFICATION ICE CREAM HOEDOWN
This contest is very simple! All you have to do is guess the day in the next week when that horrible escalator will break down. My commute mandates I use the T station every weekday any time from 8:30 to 9:30 AM, and again from 6:00 to 7:00 PM. Now if I personally observe that our favorite bad boy is indeed not in operation, or see that it's broken on mbta.com, the first five people who chose that day will win ice cream!
You heard me right! ICE CREAM! A $5 gift certificate to JP Licks, in fact. That's right, I'm givin away $25 worth of ice cream because of a busted-ass escalator. It's just one more thing I can cross off my Life List of Things To Do. If you don't like ice cream or can't eat ice cream or won't go into JP Licks because they rotated the counters inside and you just can't take it or whatever, well then you can give the gift certificate to a friend, or make it into a nice origami swan, or stick it in your bike spokes to make a rad motorcycle sound, hell, I don't know.
THERE ARE RULES OF COURSE
1. Only one entry per sentient carbon-based life form. I don't care if the voices in your head and LJ sock puppets have to duke it out to see who gets to vote, but only one of them gets to. So make for the Thunderdome already.
2. I am the judge! If I see it broke, it's broke! Additionally, brokenness can also be corroborated and verified by the Busted Crap We Can't Be Bothered To Fix list on mbta.com so I will also check it throughout the day. That counts as a win, too.
3. No tampering with the escalator to break it or shut it down in order to rig the contest! Keep your feet away from the emergency stop button, Eugene!
4. SPECIAL BONUS OPTION: If the escalator is already broken by 8:30 on Monday morning, I'll consider it broken OVER THE WEEKEND. That means there's an extra option to pick!
5. If for some reason I call in sick for a day, I shall keep checking mbta.com while being in sick. I don't expect to be in sick.
6. Only the platform-to-turnstiles escalator on the College Ave side of the station counts. If any other escalator breaks, we don't win.
7. If the escalator actually remains working for the entire working week, WE ALL WIN! We just don't win ice cream. We win a working escalator.
OKAY SOMERVILLE GET READY TO PICK
[Poll #719065]
Sponsored in part by your good friends at Abbie The Cat Worldwide Enterprises, Makers of Entropy since 1997
OH IT IS A LEGAL DISCLAIMER: This contest is not sanctioned, endorsed, or even known about by the MBTA, JP Licks, the moderators of this community (well they know now), mbta.com, the guys at Park Street who play old-timey songs on the banjo or tuba (they're awesome) or Major League Baseball. All results are final. No refunds, exchanges or substitutions. Yes, I'm serious. Consult a physician before using. Don't cross the streams. Contents under pressure may explode. Man, you're so lucky I just hit manic tonight. If you eat the ice cream too fast you might get an ice cream headache. Wake me up before you go-go, cause I'm not planning on going solo. MBTA Fun-Time Train Wash playset and MBTA Talkie T train sold separately. There are 48 states, see? And if there wasn't interstate commerce, nothing could go from one state to another, see?! Stick your elbow out too far, it'll go home in another car. Hi Mom!
So I hereby propose a contest, and I shall name it
No, I shall name it
DAVIS SQUARE'S WORST ESCALATOR BUSTIFICATION ICE CREAM HOEDOWN
This contest is very simple! All you have to do is guess the day in the next week when that horrible escalator will break down. My commute mandates I use the T station every weekday any time from 8:30 to 9:30 AM, and again from 6:00 to 7:00 PM. Now if I personally observe that our favorite bad boy is indeed not in operation, or see that it's broken on mbta.com, the first five people who chose that day will win ice cream!
You heard me right! ICE CREAM! A $5 gift certificate to JP Licks, in fact. That's right, I'm givin away $25 worth of ice cream because of a busted-ass escalator. It's just one more thing I can cross off my Life List of Things To Do. If you don't like ice cream or can't eat ice cream or won't go into JP Licks because they rotated the counters inside and you just can't take it or whatever, well then you can give the gift certificate to a friend, or make it into a nice origami swan, or stick it in your bike spokes to make a rad motorcycle sound, hell, I don't know.
THERE ARE RULES OF COURSE
1. Only one entry per sentient carbon-based life form. I don't care if the voices in your head and LJ sock puppets have to duke it out to see who gets to vote, but only one of them gets to. So make for the Thunderdome already.
2. I am the judge! If I see it broke, it's broke! Additionally, brokenness can also be corroborated and verified by the Busted Crap We Can't Be Bothered To Fix list on mbta.com so I will also check it throughout the day. That counts as a win, too.
3. No tampering with the escalator to break it or shut it down in order to rig the contest! Keep your feet away from the emergency stop button, Eugene!
4. SPECIAL BONUS OPTION: If the escalator is already broken by 8:30 on Monday morning, I'll consider it broken OVER THE WEEKEND. That means there's an extra option to pick!
5. If for some reason I call in sick for a day, I shall keep checking mbta.com while being in sick. I don't expect to be in sick.
6. Only the platform-to-turnstiles escalator on the College Ave side of the station counts. If any other escalator breaks, we don't win.
7. If the escalator actually remains working for the entire working week, WE ALL WIN! We just don't win ice cream. We win a working escalator.
OKAY SOMERVILLE GET READY TO PICK
[Poll #719065]
Sponsored in part by your good friends at Abbie The Cat Worldwide Enterprises, Makers of Entropy since 1997
OH IT IS A LEGAL DISCLAIMER: This contest is not sanctioned, endorsed, or even known about by the MBTA, JP Licks, the moderators of this community (well they know now), mbta.com, the guys at Park Street who play old-timey songs on the banjo or tuba (they're awesome) or Major League Baseball. All results are final. No refunds, exchanges or substitutions. Yes, I'm serious. Consult a physician before using. Don't cross the streams. Contents under pressure may explode. Man, you're so lucky I just hit manic tonight. If you eat the ice cream too fast you might get an ice cream headache. Wake me up before you go-go, cause I'm not planning on going solo. MBTA Fun-Time Train Wash playset and MBTA Talkie T train sold separately. There are 48 states, see? And if there wasn't interstate commerce, nothing could go from one state to another, see?! Stick your elbow out too far, it'll go home in another car. Hi Mom!
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Date: 2006-04-29 12:33 pm (UTC)I don't think I've ever seen the Davis escalator working. (Not that I go there often, save the summer I worked on Mass Ave, but seriously)
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Date: 2006-04-29 01:28 pm (UTC)I normally take the stairs anyway, but just the principal of the thing sends me into an apoplectic fit. Every 3 weeks or so there'd be two guys there wearing hardhats--and glassy-eyed, slack-jawed facial expressions usually reserved for those who are heavily medicated, severely retarded, or recently embalmed-- "fixing" it. (If you can call holding wrenches while staring blankly at the escalator "fixing".) Several times I contemplated asking them why breakdowns were so frequent, but when I would try to formulate the words, all that would pop into my head would be something along the lines of "WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?" followed by the image of me getting hit in the head with a big wrench and stuffed into that space under the escalator service panel, never to be seen again.
Now that I think about it, maybe the escalators keep screwing up because of the added strain of grinding the corpses of irate T passengers into an unidentifiable paste.
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Date: 2006-04-29 03:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-29 07:54 pm (UTC)KONE was the lowest bidder by half.
Shameful, innit?
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Date: 2006-04-29 04:48 pm (UTC)As for the Holland side escalators, I think there is about one day a month that both of them are working.
There has to be some kind of solution to this. Who do we complain to? KONE? MBTA? Both? Make a documentary on the subject?
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Date: 2006-04-29 06:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-29 07:24 pm (UTC)"Is this escalator broken? Please call for immediate repair"
Followed by the General Manager's direct phone number, Menino's number, etc.
Even if it ultimately results in no positive change, at least it means a few deserving folks get harassing phone calls.
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Date: 2006-04-30 10:44 am (UTC)I wonder if
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Date: 2006-05-01 12:51 pm (UTC)Thursday!
Date: 2006-05-04 03:09 pm (UTC)Woo!
So close!
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