40 years? Must have seen plenty of ups and downs in that career.
LOL!! He hated escalators. Said they were unsafe. We'd be in the mall, shopping, and he'd see guys he knew and would climb in the "pit" with them. There were shoes, packages, all manor of stuff. If you get you shoelace or anything caught in the escalator teeth, it's gone. It will pull the shoe off your foot.....or worse.