Too many stairs
Here’s a question that I’ve been meaning to ask my readers:
How many flights of stairs is too many stairs?
In my last building I lived on the fourth floor1 and I always tried to take the stairs as much as possible but would go up in the lift if I had heavy bags or I was sufficiently tired and/or drunk.
Now I live on the third floor I am much more inclined to climb them even if I’m tired.
I think five, or maybe six, would be the limit at which point the lift would win except when I’m feeling extra-healthy.
Let’s take a quick straw poll. Are any of my readers conscious of their stair-climbing limits? Please share them in the comments!2
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Surely, you just take as many stairs as you can and then take the lift from whatever floor represents your physical limit?
A novel solution… but do you really do that?
haha, good question. In Lisbon on the 6th floor I used the stairs as long as I was not tired / drunk / carrying shopping – but usually managed one of the three!
If helps if the lifts are slow and crap :-p.
OK, there were a couple of occasions when time was against me and I took the lift as a first choice. But then climbing the stairs of the Empire State building and the Twin Towers, both on the same day would have been a tall order.