I misread your headline as ‘Itching, inexorably, to the end’ and, considering I couldn’t see what the man’s other hand was doing, it made perfect sense. It reminded me of the story of the boy coming down the stairs in the boarding school where they weren’t allow to hold the brass banisters in case they tarnished it: “Take your hand off that, you dirty boy” yelled the Priest up the stairs. So the poor lad took his hand out of his pocket.
Once An Expat says
Are we all? Its just a matter of where we are on the escalator?
Lee says
We are. I’m desperately hoping that the one I’m moving along is as lengthy as the one this fella is on.
Matt Talbot says
I misread your headline as ‘Itching, inexorably, to the end’ and, considering I couldn’t see what the man’s other hand was doing, it made perfect sense. It reminded me of the story of the boy coming down the stairs in the boarding school where they weren’t allow to hold the brass banisters in case they tarnished it: “Take your hand off that, you dirty boy” yelled the Priest up the stairs. So the poor lad took his hand out of his pocket.
Lee says
Haha, that’s funny. Hopefully that wasn’t the case in the photo. Although it was a long escalator…
Hans ter Horst says
Well, it looks like at least you can go either way on these escalators of life, sort of a Buddhist reincarnation thing that is going on there.
Lee says
Hadn’t thought about it like that. Now that would be something!