DR Rodzinski, your whirlwind tour of gai Paris sounds wonderful. I copuldn't take the Eiffel tower steps either. When I began working for the Miami University library in Sept. 1965, the old King Library's floors in the stacks were either very heavy translucent panels of glass or plexiglass. It took me a year to get over my fear of crashing through one to the floor below, and I worked there from Sept. 1965-August 1970.
I meant to respond to this, too!
Yes, thank you, DR Rodzinski, for the amazing tour. I'd be happy to hear even more about it when the dust settles. It sounded wonderful. Okay, except for the translucent steps or panels. I'm with the rest of you on that. Do you know about the clear platform they built over one spot in the Grand Canyon? NO WAY, MAN.
As for steps themselves, I still manage to like them (knocking wood here) and rather enjoy the interesting ups and downs in a lot of places. But for the actual crazy heights themselves, I love dramatic views but I absolutely avail myself of handrails everywhere. Looking down while not holding on to something solid are two things that don't go together in my book.
