Saturday, January 27, 2007

Gapers

Alright, so I was finishing work with Nathan, a guy from Wales on our team, and we were just leaving the lift shack about to put our boards on and head home when this guy sitting in the middle of the run with one ski yells out "Are you guys leaving?"
"Yes, the lifts closed"
"Oh, can you help me out?"
"Sure, where do you need to go?" Assuming that the guy just needed directions to get down the mountain.
"I lost my ski just up there, can you help me look for it?"
"Err, ok, where did you lose it? Where do you think it is?"
"I feel just up in those trees and the ski came down this way." Pointing a little bit up the hill.
Ok , so we can help out this guy for a minute or two. So we hike over and start going up the hill where he was pointing. "Where did you fall again?"
"Oh, it was a bit further up, higher and to the left of where you are." At this point I look back and the guy is just lying in the snow looking up at us. I figured that he'd come up and help out and point out where he had fallen and where he thought his ski went, but no, he just lay in the snow and waited for us to find his ski. So at this point I said "Hey, can you come up here and show me where you fell and where the ski went?" So he gets up and takes a few steps.
"I fell just up there, a bit higher than you are."
I was now a hunderd yards (meters) up the slope from him in the trees. "So how did you get down there from where you fell?"
"I fell, stumbled and crawled on one ski."
"And you didn't follow your ski or see where it went?"
"It went off somewhere down there." Really helpful stuff.
Now we've got to get down to another lift before it closes so we can get home so we give up trying to find this gapers ski. Then this guy says "I can't ski home with just one ski, I'll need soome help." So we call up the ski patrol to pick him up but we have to wait around till they come. Ten minutes later the ski patrol roll up with a snow mobile and take this guy away and we cruise down to the lift we're supposed to get. They've already called last lift so we get the only bonus from the whole experience, a ride on a snow mobile home. That was pretty fun but this fucking gaper pissed me off. He just expected us to romp around the whole slope and find is ski for him as he sat in the snow like a beached whale. Fucking gapers.

Gaper definition for those who don't know

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