Living a joke
Mitch Hedberg has a bit about escalators that is hilarious. Today, while exiting the Metro station in DC, I lived that joke. First, the bit:
An escalator can never break. It can only become stairs. You would never see an “Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order” sign, just “Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.”
Sure enough, on exiting the metro, the escalators were off. Sadly, no one in DC has either heard of Mitch Hedberg or had the stones to put up a sign like that. I think a little humor would go a long way in that city…