Martin
A monoid in the category of endofunctors
See title. The stupider the better.
Reading about Hula's childhood fear of being sucked into the top of an escalator if he didn't get off in time reminded me of something that happened when I was maybe 6, 7, 8 years old that comes pretty close to that.
I got bored while waiting for my mum to finish looking at some rack of clothes in a store, so wandered around the corner and started pushing with both hands against the rail of a nearby escalator in the opposite direction to how the belt was moving. Like the idiot kid that I was, I refused to stop as the belt pushed my hands further around, and it eventually pulled my right arm all the way into the casing at the bottom (it was one of those old open-fronted ones that idt shops are allowed to install nowadays for this exact reason). I started screaming in pain, which finally caught Mum's attention, and luckily a nearby staff member was copped-on enough to hit the emergency stop button—I'm not sure whether I'd still have a right arm had she not—so I managed to escape with a dislocated arm/shoulder.
Reading about Hula's childhood fear of being sucked into the top of an escalator if he didn't get off in time reminded me of something that happened when I was maybe 6, 7, 8 years old that comes pretty close to that.
I got bored while waiting for my mum to finish looking at some rack of clothes in a store, so wandered around the corner and started pushing with both hands against the rail of a nearby escalator in the opposite direction to how the belt was moving. Like the idiot kid that I was, I refused to stop as the belt pushed my hands further around, and it eventually pulled my right arm all the way into the casing at the bottom (it was one of those old open-fronted ones that idt shops are allowed to install nowadays for this exact reason). I started screaming in pain, which finally caught Mum's attention, and luckily a nearby staff member was copped-on enough to hit the emergency stop button—I'm not sure whether I'd still have a right arm had she not—so I managed to escape with a dislocated arm/shoulder.
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