Paternosters, or paternoster lifts/elevators always filled me with trepidation. I am quite clumsy so I always imagined something going very wrong. Have you ever ridden one? There used to be quite a few in Stockholm until fairly recently, but I am not sure if they are still operational.
From Wikipedia:
I’ll stick with my old Otis Elevators, thank you.
We had these at my college and I was regularly being told off for going down from the ground floor in order to beat the queue and get to my lectures on time for them starting.
I really thought the name referred to the endless prayers for safety you must have been sending out for a safe journey onboard this infernal machine… Thankfully, I have never ridden on one of these!…