Snow skiing ranks quite high on my list of humiliations and though, through the years I have impressed others with an innate ability to humiliate myself continuously on the ski slopes, last year’s little incident which I call, “the getting to know you ride,” sums up my life on the slopes.
It involved making it to the front of the chair lift line as a single and pairing up with another single skier who I did not know. Now, after you have skied into position and if you are on the right side of a double seat chair, you grab the center pole of the chair with your left hand as it comes around. When the chair hits the back of your legs and you pull yourself onto the right seat. If you are on the left side of the chair, you grab the center pole with your right hand to pull yourself onto the left seat. If you happen to be daydreaming and not paying attention like I was and you are supposed to be sitting on the left side of the chair but grab the center bar with your left hand, you pull yourself onto the lap of the skier in the right seat. This indeed made for an awkward quarter mile ride and after three minutes I had completely run out of things to talk about.
(Title Photo by Elena Todorova)
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