Programmed Responses

I find it interesting how much we accomplish each day without actually thinking about what we are doing and just following our routine. We don't even realize it until something that we are used to doing changes, we don't notice, and try to carry out our routine regardless. For example, the escalator that leads up to our work was completely stationary. I never realized exactly how many steps are on the escalator until I has to walk up all of them without it moving. After walking up in the morning and taking the elevator back to the bottom floor I went back to the escalator and walked up the stationary escalator again. As I trudged up the steps I notice people walking down on the my side. After I pondering why they would do that,I turned the corner and noticed they switched the normally down escalator so it was moving up. As I noticed this, I saw someone else walk toward the moving escalator that was coming right back towards him. Before he took the step that would have sent him backwards on his ass, he managed to stop himself. We have to use these short-cuts to prevent overloading our brain.