Opening Day
In the gondola on the ride back down to Whistler Village at closing time on opening day:
Totally Stoned Sixty Year Old Snowboarder from Seattle: [to the group of what appear to be happenin' sorts of 20-something university students] Sure was great to get up there a little early this year, wasn't it?
Young Law Student 1: Oh yeah!
Young Law Student 2: Yeah, man. I really missed this over the summer. It's good to be back on the mountain.
TSSYOSFS: No doubt, man. But too bad the snow was so crusty, man.
Young Law Student 3: Sure was crusty. Boarding on ice half the time.
TSSYOSFS: [obviously amused that someone liked his choice of terminology] Ha, ha, crusty. Toooohhhhhtally crusty, man. Heh heh. Huh.
Young Law Student 1: . . .
Young Law Student 2: . . .
Young Law Student 3: . . .
Young Law Student 4: . . .
Young Law Student 1: Yeah, it was a little bad, but still not bad enough to hurt yourself on.
Young Law Student 4: As long as you don't fall off the lift.
Young Law Student 2: Dude! You saw that guy!?!?
TSSYOSFS: Fall off the lift, man. Like how do you do that?
Young Law Student 1: I don't know. How do you do that? You're just sitting there on a chair. What was he doing, dancing?
Young Law Student 3: It was heroic too — his friends reached down and caught him by the wrists and were hanging on to him as the chair was going up, and then he saw a powdery spot and decided to let go and fall. Crazy. Looked like he landed okay. But like you said, how do you do that?
Young Law Student 1: Or explain it to your friends after. . . .
TSSYOSFS: "I don't know, man. I was like, just sittin' there on the lift, you know, man, and that lift operator, he must have fucked it right up, like just knocked me off of there. . . ."
Young Law Student 1: Heh, blame it on the lift operator. Nice.
TSSYOSFS: "Like, that lift operator was totally smoked up, man."
Young Law Student 2: Ha, a stoned lift operator.
TSSYOSFS: Too much bud, man. Like he'd totally overdone the grass, man. Like, wow, was that lift operator zoned, man. Like, whoa, like. . . .
Young Law Student 1: [suddenly to other students] You guys have taken Ethics and Law already right? I've got the final coming up and totally can't get a read on the prof.
TSSYOSFS: . . .
Young Law Student 2: Yeah, I had it. You need some ideas on the final?
TSSYOSFS: . . .
Young Law Student 3: Yeah.
TSSYOSFS: . . .
Totally Stoned Sixty Year Old Snowboarder from Seattle: [to the group of what appear to be happenin' sorts of 20-something university students] Sure was great to get up there a little early this year, wasn't it?
Young Law Student 1: Oh yeah!
Young Law Student 2: Yeah, man. I really missed this over the summer. It's good to be back on the mountain.
TSSYOSFS: No doubt, man. But too bad the snow was so crusty, man.
Young Law Student 3: Sure was crusty. Boarding on ice half the time.
TSSYOSFS: [obviously amused that someone liked his choice of terminology] Ha, ha, crusty. Toooohhhhhtally crusty, man. Heh heh. Huh.
Young Law Student 1: . . .
Young Law Student 2: . . .
Young Law Student 3: . . .
Young Law Student 4: . . .
Young Law Student 1: Yeah, it was a little bad, but still not bad enough to hurt yourself on.
Young Law Student 4: As long as you don't fall off the lift.
Young Law Student 2: Dude! You saw that guy!?!?
TSSYOSFS: Fall off the lift, man. Like how do you do that?
Young Law Student 1: I don't know. How do you do that? You're just sitting there on a chair. What was he doing, dancing?
Young Law Student 3: It was heroic too — his friends reached down and caught him by the wrists and were hanging on to him as the chair was going up, and then he saw a powdery spot and decided to let go and fall. Crazy. Looked like he landed okay. But like you said, how do you do that?
Young Law Student 1: Or explain it to your friends after. . . .
TSSYOSFS: "I don't know, man. I was like, just sittin' there on the lift, you know, man, and that lift operator, he must have fucked it right up, like just knocked me off of there. . . ."
Young Law Student 1: Heh, blame it on the lift operator. Nice.
TSSYOSFS: "Like, that lift operator was totally smoked up, man."
Young Law Student 2: Ha, a stoned lift operator.
TSSYOSFS: Too much bud, man. Like he'd totally overdone the grass, man. Like, wow, was that lift operator zoned, man. Like, whoa, like. . . .
Young Law Student 1: [suddenly to other students] You guys have taken Ethics and Law already right? I've got the final coming up and totally can't get a read on the prof.
TSSYOSFS: . . .
Young Law Student 2: Yeah, I had it. You need some ideas on the final?
TSSYOSFS: . . .
Young Law Student 3: Yeah.
TSSYOSFS: . . .