Remember how, when you were a kid, escalators were kind of terrifying? Yeah, this woman never outgrew that fear.

In this video, dated from 2012 but now going viral all over again, the unnamed woman approaches the 

steps of doom

escalator, realises it’s moving faster than she’d braced herself for, and panics.

What she does next — well, here you go:

Well, that escalated quickly.

(Sorry. The pun was there for the taking.)