uphillklimber
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Lift line etiquette
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SIKSKIER
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Oh ya.I'm not shy about telling them to move aside with a little "LETS GO".
I agree. Hate that. I also hate it when I am skiing single and am put by the liftie with a threesome who stand at the queue as I get on the lift. I don't smell that bad!
The other big one I hate is when folks step all over my skis. Ugh!
The other big one I hate is when folks step all over my skis. Ugh!
snowmonster
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Welcome to holiday skiing! It's that time of year when once-a-year skiers head to the hills.
Smellytele
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We ain't there yet especially midweek.
SkiDork
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what holiday? Kwanzaa?
from_the_NEK
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I think it is more the reflection of the general direction of today's narcissistic society and the idea that the people loading the lift think the rest of the world should have to wait for them no matter what. They could give two shits what is going on around them.
C-Rex
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Couldn't have said it better. Common courtesy is hard to come by these days. And to be fair, it's not always young people being rude or discourteous. I've had plenty of grown men and women walk by me while I'm holding a door for them like it's my job or something. It's not like I expect their first born for it. A smile and a nod would be plenty.
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4aprice
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I have had this happen to me several times as well. Usually its kids who either don't want to ride up with an adult (in body only) or (more likely) are planning something like a safety meeting.
Alex
Lake Hopatcong, NJ
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Cornhead
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Same behavior at movies now, people have no qualms about talking aloud as if they were in their living room, they couldn't care less if this bothers anyone else. I remember going to see The Lion King with my son years ago, two young ladies were actually singing along with every song in the movie, I thought it was rude. I didn't pay to listen to their show.
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Id be willing to bet my life savings that lift line issues are not a new phenomenon.
Its petty to begin with, which is why you dont recall these issues in the past. You moved the hell on.
Ive never once gotten worked up in a liftline over anything. Who really needs to get that upset over a 10 second delay.
Now if its a total junk show thats a different story, but waiting an extra chair, meh not concerned.
Ive never seen it be more than one or two chairs then the line gets its shit together. Not worth messing up my day over that.
Its petty to begin with, which is why you dont recall these issues in the past. You moved the hell on.
Ive never once gotten worked up in a liftline over anything. Who really needs to get that upset over a 10 second delay.
Now if its a total junk show thats a different story, but waiting an extra chair, meh not concerned.
Ive never seen it be more than one or two chairs then the line gets its shit together. Not worth messing up my day over that.
Could be like Europe. I've only skied there once, when I was 10 years old, but I vividly recall no lift qeues and a total free for all to try and get on the lift. You literally had to plant your ski pole in front of peoples skis behind you or they'd try to go past you.
billski
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+1
And when I do provide a random act of kindness (such as letting someone out from their house on a busy road), which I often do, drivers behind me get aggravated and the driver trying to get out is astonished. Life is too short to be so self-consumed.
from_the_NEK
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At least in Europe they don't stand around letting empty/partially filled chairs go by. Or maybe they do?
hammer
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I'm fine with letting a person out on a busy road from a side street, but out of courtesy to drivers behind me I try to make sure it's only one person.
I do think that people need to be called out more when they are rude...just don't want to sink to their level in the process.
drjeff
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It's pretty easy, if it's a quad, and its crowded, you're not nearly as important as you think you might be if you think that you don't have to ride up as a quad (same applies for doubles, triples, 6 packs, 8 seater gondolas, etc)
#2 pay attention to your ipad/phone/go pro/whatever distraction device you're using when on the lift, NOT while in the line when it will probably screw you up and increase the chances that you'll screw up the loading sequence
#3 If you have to ask if it's ok to light up on the lift, realistically the answer will be "no" so don't even bother, since chances are that in less than 10 minutes you'll be off the lift and out of the close proximity of others who probably don't want anything to do with the smell of your smoke
#4 If you're trying to pair up with friends in the line. The folks further up in the line should move back to the ones behind, not the ones in back move up, since there's almost never a convienent place to pull aside and let others pass
#2 pay attention to your ipad/phone/go pro/whatever distraction device you're using when on the lift, NOT while in the line when it will probably screw you up and increase the chances that you'll screw up the loading sequence
#3 If you have to ask if it's ok to light up on the lift, realistically the answer will be "no" so don't even bother, since chances are that in less than 10 minutes you'll be off the lift and out of the close proximity of others who probably don't want anything to do with the smell of your smoke
#4 If you're trying to pair up with friends in the line. The folks further up in the line should move back to the ones behind, not the ones in back move up, since there's almost never a convienent place to pull aside and let others pass
billski
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Lifties need stun guns and the personality to use them. Lifties that wimp out on enforcement should be fed to the bears.
jrmagic
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I generally don't let this stuff bother me but at times it gets a little out of control. While some of the people certainly are of the me first variety I'd say the alrge majority are just clueless.
