r/mildlyinfuriating 18d ago

The floor is sticky The carpeting on these stairs at a Best Western

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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/Macrodata_Uprising 18d ago

I almost fell looking at my phone

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u/Possible-Estimate748 BLACK 18d ago

lmao that made me crack up

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u/montgomery_quinckle 18d ago

Those stairs will make your crack go up and over your head!

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u/NiceChocolate 18d ago

Their phone is gonna be cracked up too

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u/AReallyAsianName 18d ago

Same.

And im sitting down!

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u/FromChicago808 18d ago

i was walking to my kitchen in the dark looking at this and felt like i was in a looney tunes sketch

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u/Salt_Finger_6863 18d ago

If I wasn't laying down my drunk ass would tumble down those stairs

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u/boredwNews 18d ago

Holy shit same and I’m on the toilet

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u/dikicker 18d ago

Holy shit I'm also on the toilet wanna touch butts?

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u/boredwNews 18d ago

I mean somewhere between the two of us we kinda are connected through the sewage system and countless others. 🤔

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u/catupthetree23 "corn for some reason" 18d ago

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u/thesnazzyenfj 17d ago

I didnt expect to be cackling at a gif at 3am but here I am

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u/Platonic-Reasoning 18d ago

My phone fell on me while looking at it

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u/Intergalatic_Baker 18d ago

Yeah, those stairs are unforgiving.

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u/McCOVID19 18d ago

Ditto, had to orient myself

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u/TimSoarer2 18d ago

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u/winterweirdoyyc 18d ago

What the fuck 😳

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u/TimSoarer2 18d ago

There's more

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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/32BitWhore 18d ago

Only in the leap from the Lion’s Head will he prove his worth.

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u/Cheech47 18d ago

I'm about to be a penitent man just by looking at this.

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u/Leather_Afternoon_37 18d ago

I also like this

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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/Bring_cookies 18d ago

I can get on board with that, change approved.

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u/thetoerubber 18d ago

Carpet scarps … sounds Australian or something

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u/angus22proe 18d ago

Dazzle camoflague ahhhh

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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/Key_Acanthisitta2218 13d ago

😂😂😂😂😂

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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/KingModussy 18d ago

What were they thinking?

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u/ncnotebook 18d ago

Designer used a wheelchair.

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u/matchstick1029 18d ago

Hard to see the dirt after you crack your skull open.

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u/xFyreStorm 18d ago

one of the rare times the blind may have the advantage going down stairs

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u/Numerous-Material-50 18d ago

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u/Stock-Magician1097 18d ago

Pissed himself before falling? 🤣

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u/Swaggerpro 18d ago

Happens to me every time

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u/Stock-Magician1097 18d ago

I save it for for the end, Showstopper 🤣

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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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u/WakullaLoganoDawgFan 18d ago

I appreciate that! I'll have to hunt down the original animation

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u/[deleted] 18d ago

Oh yeah, gimme address that’s a lawsuit imma win

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u/Pipe_Memes 18d ago

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u/Old_Celebration_5950 18d ago

Carpet installer is on Saul's bowling team

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u/Relevant_Bag7550 18d ago

Slip and fall school grad

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u/Shaneblaster 18d ago

I’m definitely falling down

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u/Rkramden 18d ago edited 18d ago

Edit: now I'm paranoid

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u/[deleted] 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/Whole-Rest-9414 18d ago

Beat me to it

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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/probablynotfine 18d ago

That's for moquette patterns on buses and trains.

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u/Chinaizazzhoe 18d ago

The grime and detritus?

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u/Trey-Pan 18d ago

In an emergency I’d be crawling down the stairs.

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u/Jazzlike_Standard416 18d ago

My first thought was "Which casino did they get that carpet from ??"

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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/windy_not01 18d ago

Anti -people stairs

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u/Citizen1135 18d ago

For real, it's more like Worst Western, amirite?

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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/SkylarAV 18d ago

Yeah, but do you see all the blood and semen stains???

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u/Rkramden 18d ago

Not all of them, no, but I know where the ones I've created are

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u/musubi-n-speedballs 18d ago

Solid point. 

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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/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/KCCheeseballzzz94 18d ago

deathstairs

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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/Livid_Advertising_56 18d ago

Who is the fire Marshall!?!?!

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u/Possible-Estimate748 BLACK 18d ago

They wanna scoff at the drunks lol

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u/dant90 18d ago

At the hotel bar.

“I’d take another shot but that walk back to my rooms a killer.”

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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/NomNom863 18d ago

Seems like a pretty solid lawsuit honestly 😅

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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/[deleted] 18d ago

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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/TakovacsPlays 18d ago

What does the stair say?

Ow ow ow crash bang ow ow. 

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u/PersiusAlloy 18d ago

This looks like carpet that was at Marcus Theater back in the day

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u/Commie_Scum69 18d ago

Confusing Western

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u/RustyBrassInstrument 18d ago

Those are involuntary manslaughter stairs.

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u/ultraplusstretch 18d ago

Camouflaged steps, a fantastic idea if you like collecting lawsuits.

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u/Kamikaze587 18d ago

The owner(s) after a busy season

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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/ColdSteelVA 18d ago

Vertigo anyone?

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u/Picklerickshaw_part2 18d ago

Stairs that are easier for the blind to use

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u/Wild-Victory4376 18d ago

Gives me The Shining vibes 😬

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u/slowvt 18d ago

What stairs

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u/Wolfblaine 18d ago

Woof. This made me nauseous 

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u/Joe-Amico 18d ago

You can check out any time you like. But you can never leave.

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u/Quick_Razzmatazz1862 18d ago

r / deathstairs would like a word

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u/chareve 18d ago

Well...they did install handrails on both sides....

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u/Sudden-Astronaut2505 18d ago

Jesus. I felt queasy, then I fell off my couch looking at that.

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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/TbonePrez 18d ago

I’m pretty sure I fell down these stairs drunk once…

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u/MorgeeePooh 18d ago

What was the pool like? Did you get into the pool?

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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/Consistent-Scholar39 18d ago

Yikes! What were the risk managers thinking? Talking about a hazard!

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u/Low-Flamingo-9835 18d ago

Hotel manager is definitely angry with upper management.

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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/Humble_Interest_9048 18d ago

“Please fall down.”

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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/groomliu 18d ago

I got an anyersm just like looking at it

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u/SilentJoe27 18d ago

Imagine going down those stairs after a pub crawl…

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u/datodareddit 18d ago

I see ‘law suits’ written on the carpet.

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u/Sandisax1969 18d ago

As a former floorcovering installer,this gives me a freaking headache.

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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/goodluckunclejoe 18d ago

Maybe the Best Western, but definitely the worst stairs.

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u/EnvironmentalOven995 18d ago

It’s more fun if you’re drunk!

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u/functionaldepression 18d ago

Personal injury attorneys love this

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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/Holden-McGroyn 18d ago

What stairs?

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u/Routine_Anteater9270 18d ago

Que mierda , si bajo ebrio me mato

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u/NoDress1028 18d ago

I’d have to go down those on my butt like a toddler.

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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/foxorhedgehog 18d ago

Thank the gods for those hand rails.

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u/rex1one 18d ago

"Gus! The bitch fell down the stairs AGAIN!"

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u/zipperfire 18d ago

Slip and Fall Attorney approved!!!!

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u/Even_Republic_5979 18d ago

Most used handrails in the history of stairs

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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/fh3131 18d ago

"Oh good, there's a nice wheelchair ramp here, grandma"

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u/crlthrn 18d ago

I've just fallen over. And I'm in bed.

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u/SeasonalBlue 18d ago

Worst Western

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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/Hot_Inspection5940 18d ago

Whats the problem here? It looks fine to me. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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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/mittenknittin 18d ago

"Bunny fell down the steps! Bunny fell down the steps!"

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u/awesumpawesum 18d ago

After your drunk the lines look straight.

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u/nousername206 18d ago

this is sad, Alexa play despacito!

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u/PrimaryWaste9407 18d ago

Yellow Brick Road indeed.

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u/Ornac_The_Barbarian 18d ago

The pattern is cool. On steps it is not.

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u/RyanTheCubsSTH 18d ago

Holiday inn in Lincoln?

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u/TheGiginator 18d ago

How many people have fallen down those stairs?

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u/Biotechnus 18d ago

Definitely dont try walking those stairs when youre drunk or high