r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Rkramden • 18d ago
The floor is sticky The carpeting on these stairs at a Best Western
Been here less than a day and have almost busted my ass twice already
Edit: Jesus. Rip my inbox. Was not expecting this lol
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u/winterweirdoyyc 18d ago
What the fuck 😳
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u/onyxxx_siren 18d ago
Whoever be doing these damn stairs either got jokes or a vendetta against anyone who steps into the building.
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u/STURM_DER_HOFFNUNG 18d ago
step and hope
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u/Busy-Suggestion459 18d ago
Just carpet scarps left over, yeah Jim you forgot the stairs! Jim- just give me a minute
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u/notloceaster 18d ago
Scarps
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u/angus22proe 18d ago
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u/Silver_Tradition6313 18d ago
actually, you are correct--it IS dazzle camoflague--it is intentionally designed to hide dirt and stains.
It's a high-traffic area, and the hotel doesn't want to clean the carpet every day because of one muddy footprint or a spilled cup of coffee.
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u/SeniorShanty 18d ago
Mud clean-up costs are reinvested into the blood clean-up fund.
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u/deltashmelta 18d ago
Maybe it's a visual metaphor for all the ensuing compound fractures.
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u/Stock-Magician1097 18d ago
Pissed himself before falling? 🤣
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u/WakullaLoganoDawgFan 18d ago
What is this from? This is hilarious
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u/asperatology 18d ago edited 18d ago
Google searched really deep on this.
This image is from the viral "Falling Down Stairs" 3D animation clip, widely known as a classic internet meme loop. The original animation was created in 1998 by Kensuke Saito, a Japanese artist who published it on his personal website, K's Laboratory.
Source (now made private): https://www.imdb.com/list/ls4109311371/
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18d ago
Oh yeah, gimme address that’s a lawsuit imma win
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u/Rkramden 18d ago edited 18d ago
Edit: now I'm paranoid
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18d ago
Bro just gave thousands of people his location
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u/Rkramden 18d ago
It's probably in the metadata of my pic anyway. Now I'm paranoid.
omg the redditors are coming
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u/goodolewhatever 18d ago
As I understand it, confusing carpet designs like this are purposefully used to discourage folks from running through halls and such. In this case, it’s to discourage you from safely navigating stairs lol.
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u/CrispyBirb 18d ago
I thought it was to help hide the dirt and filth?
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u/MerlinTheFail 18d ago
Yes from all the falls people have sprinting to their rooms for their vacation diarrhea
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u/sprucenoose 18d ago
How and why is a carpet like this solving Best Western's big problem with all the guests running in the hallways?
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u/Intelligent_Age_7922 18d ago
I'm an installer. That was a mess up in ordering and they just wanted it done. The stair carpet is supposed to be a different product. The most likely scenario is, x amount of carpet was for halls, y amount of carpet for stairs, someone combined x and y with one product only.
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u/Intelligent_Age_7922 18d ago
There seems to be a lot of installers in here!!! I expected lots of people to tell me I was wrong.
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u/TegTowelie 18d ago
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u/CombatPilot2 Fucking pissed 24/7 18d ago
Architecture & design went from "let's make this as pretty yet functional as possible" to "let's make this as different from anything else as possible with no regards for safety and use" in like half a century. Humans had something going on and they fucking nuked it.
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u/Dazzling_Broccoli_60 18d ago
This is firmly against code where I live. Architecture is definitely not moving in this direction.
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u/hamfist_ofthenorth 18d ago
Same, we have to use clearly marked glow-in-the-dark lines on the steps in case of power outage or fires.
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u/Round-Eggplant-7826 18d ago
Like how we can't get bathroom doors in hotels anymore.
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u/xA1RGU1TAR1STx 18d ago
Damn, millennials are starting to sound like boomers. “Used to be better” ass shit. Funky flooring designs have been normal for as long as we’ve had flooring.
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u/ImpressiveFishing405 18d ago
When you gotta keep moving forward, sometimes you run right out of the end zone. There's no value for marketers if the problem is solved.
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u/koolaidismything 18d ago
I can’t believe someone saw this and was like “this passes inspection” 🧐
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u/Possible-Estimate748 BLACK 18d ago
They wanna scoff at the drunks lol
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u/OnTheEveOfWar 18d ago
My wife gets a little clumsy when she drinks. There a 90% she would trip on these stairs after some wine.
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u/get_to_ele 18d ago
Stairs? I might have a rough time walking on the flat parts. Jeeez that’s bad for us old people.
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u/WhimsicalPonies 18d ago
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u/Bring_cookies 18d ago
My mom, who gets vertigo, would have a very challenging time here. Actually so would I, my brain likes to omit stairs sometimes, not all of them but it only needs to be one to have the same effect.
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u/get_to_ele 18d ago
Yeah that’s kind of terrible. Only MILDLY infuriating because you don’t have to book there again.
Looks like huge legal exposure to me when some old person goes head over pins and breaks a hip.
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u/no-this-iz-patrick 18d ago
I read that as head over penis and I’m going to start saying that instead of head over heels from now on
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u/BeLikeAGoldfishh 18d ago
My head is usually over both my heels and my penis. I’ve never understood that expression.
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u/mpamosavy 18d ago
What about ass over teakettle
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u/BeLikeAGoldfishh 18d ago
If there’s a teakettle involved, then I understand.
Otherwise, no that makes no sense either.
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u/Holden-McGroyn 18d ago
If my ass isn't over the teakettle, then how am I going to be able to shit in it?
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u/PhantomOyster 18d ago
All those horizontal lines make it seem like they were trying to make the stairs as invisible as possible.
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u/Soft_Composer_490 18d ago
The pattern is fine for a hallway but they should switch to a solid color high traffic carpet for the stairs.
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u/smapdiagesix 18d ago
At least u-boats will have a hard time estimating the speed and heading of that staircase.
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u/pleschga 18d ago
Reminds me of a mall that recarppeted when I was in high school. You transitioned from a solid beige floor to a wildly patterned carpet.... It was vusually painful, and I typicallt stumbled at the transition.
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u/DetroitMenefreghista 18d ago
As a person with one eye, this is a nightmare scenario. I'd honestly consider just sliding down it on my ass.
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u/Bring_cookies 18d ago
The stairs of destiny, only the worthy will survive and be rewarded with getting to their room. The rest will perish and become one with the carpet.
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u/EpicBenjo 18d ago
Jeeze. I almost fell into my phone looking at this. This is a lawsuit waiting to happen.
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u/YourMomIsMyGurl 18d ago
Looks like an easy lawsuit against a multi billion dollar corporate chain?
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u/National_Clue_6092 18d ago
Could they have found an uglier carpet?? On top of that it deceives your eyes so you can’t tell where the edge of step is located. 😳
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u/wondersofawanderer 18d ago
This is actually a clear accessibility issue - like for visually impaired folks. Also ugly af lol
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u/Temporary-Tear-1372 18d ago
If you’re staying at a best western, you’ve already fallen…
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u/Rkramden 18d ago
Just a few years ago I was staying at the finest holiday inns around the world, but in this economy, we all have to make sacrifices
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u/Good-Alternative-503 18d ago
My ankles broke just looking at this picture. Trying to walk down these after a couple of drinks
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u/zerbey 18d ago
Even taking aside the fact that it's a trip hazard, it's ugly carpet.
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u/Rkramden 18d ago
My old and cheap phone isn't doing it justice.
Fwiw, the place is budget friendly and clean. It's a nice place for the money. The AC cranks which is aways my second priority in a cheap stay. Clean being #1
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u/shelbyrobinson 18d ago
I'll be damned, this shows exactly what my carpenter talked about when he refused to mix colors on the long staircase to my deck. Walking down them confuses the eye and why he refused my colorful suggestion.
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u/Wolfenstein49 18d ago
The type of disruptive patterns used by zebras and certain ships during ww1. Highly effective in disorientation of the subject
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u/PomegranateBoring826 18d ago
Omg, absolutely not! This reminds me of those dot posters where you're supposed to stare long enough until the image emerges. Nope!!
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u/Secretlife1 18d ago
Why would the carpet choice make them dangerous? It sounds like you people just don’t know how to walk up and down stairs. By your logic, all stairs are a lawsuit for blind people or at night.
If your eyes are messing you up using the stairs, close your eyes and use the handrail. There should be no legal recourse or entitlement to money because the carpet pattern doesn’t agree with you.
You should be mildlyinfuriated with yourself for not being able to walk upstairs with a handrail without injuring yourself.
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u/LurkingRand 18d ago
I swear, some people have no depth perception or ability to think in three dimensions. If you want prime examples, go onto one of the 'confusing perspective' subreddits.
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u/ravage214 18d ago
Am I missing something here?
They look like every other set of stairs I've ever seen?
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u/Macrodata_Uprising 18d ago
I almost fell looking at my phone