I have masses of common sense, but I have done things far more stupid than that - especially under stress :oops:
Ally
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Would you leave your handbag at the chair lift ????
Ian - I don't own a handbag - never have (another feminist thing). I keep my money in my jacket pocket. Keeping one's valuables in a handbag has always struck me as totally ridiculous and impractical. Do you have a handbag? :wink:
But as I said, I have done lots of other totally stupid things.
Come to think of it, I have left my hired skis in a smashed up locker without a lock in the ski lockers at our apartment - because they had big signs up saying we weren't allowed to keep them in the room and I didn't know what else to do. But the next day I went to the estate agents to ask them about it and they said we could keep them in our room until maintenance had fixed the locker (which they never did the whole week we were there).
Ally
Tony - it just shows how sensible (and probably desperate) they are :D
I hope they get some more skis okay, and don't have to pay 300 euros for them. What an awful thing to happen on your first ski holiday. It's sort of like going pony trekking and forgetting to tie up your horse and then in the morning having no horse because it had wandered off and no-one had told you that horses do that sometimes.
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Started by Silverflora in Beginning Skiing 09-Apr-2010 - 29 Replies
AllyG
reply to 'Totally discouraged after dry ski slope lessons - advice sought' posted Apr-2010
Ian Wickham
reply to 'Totally discouraged after dry ski slope lessons - advice sought' posted Apr-2010
AllyG wrote:I have masses of common sense, but I have done things far more stupid than that - especially under stress :oops:
Ally
Would you leave your handbag at the chair lift ????
Brimster
reply to 'Totally discouraged after dry ski slope lessons - advice sought' posted Apr-2010
You guys have to remember that its hard when your a newbie and haven't got a clue with no-one to help.
Thankfully the first time I went skiing I was with a group that could ski so they were able to point me in the right direction - like what to do with your skis when getting in a gondola for meeting the ski school at the top on your first ever day and to swap skis when going in a restaurant on the mountain.
I don't think you can blame the ski school for not telling him about where to keep his skis. However I do agree Wickers it seems a bit silly to think you can leave your skis at the chairlift overnight but as Trencher and Ally have said we all do stupid things at times....
I have left my skis unlocked in stupid and random places and it is pure luck that they have never been taken (but I never seem to learn!)
Thankfully the first time I went skiing I was with a group that could ski so they were able to point me in the right direction - like what to do with your skis when getting in a gondola for meeting the ski school at the top on your first ever day and to swap skis when going in a restaurant on the mountain.
I don't think you can blame the ski school for not telling him about where to keep his skis. However I do agree Wickers it seems a bit silly to think you can leave your skis at the chairlift overnight but as Trencher and Ally have said we all do stupid things at times....
I have left my skis unlocked in stupid and random places and it is pure luck that they have never been taken (but I never seem to learn!)
AllyG
reply to 'Totally discouraged after dry ski slope lessons - advice sought' posted Apr-2010
Ian Wickham wrote:AllyG wrote:I have masses of common sense, but I have done things far more stupid than that - especially under stress :oops:
Ally
Would you leave your handbag at the chair lift ????
Ian - I don't own a handbag - never have (another feminist thing). I keep my money in my jacket pocket. Keeping one's valuables in a handbag has always struck me as totally ridiculous and impractical. Do you have a handbag? :wink:
But as I said, I have done lots of other totally stupid things.
Come to think of it, I have left my hired skis in a smashed up locker without a lock in the ski lockers at our apartment - because they had big signs up saying we weren't allowed to keep them in the room and I didn't know what else to do. But the next day I went to the estate agents to ask them about it and they said we could keep them in our room until maintenance had fixed the locker (which they never did the whole week we were there).
Ally
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AllyG
reply to 'Totally discouraged after dry ski slope lessons - advice sought' posted Apr-2010
Tony_H wrote:The point I was making was not so much that they left their skis unattended, but the fact that they came on this site to tell us after their first days skiing ever, having hardly used this site previously!
I just thought that was a little odd.
Tony - it just shows how sensible (and probably desperate) they are :D
I hope they get some more skis okay, and don't have to pay 300 euros for them. What an awful thing to happen on your first ski holiday. It's sort of like going pony trekking and forgetting to tie up your horse and then in the morning having no horse because it had wandered off and no-one had told you that horses do that sometimes.
Ally
Brimster
reply to 'Totally discouraged after dry ski slope lessons - advice sought' posted Apr-2010
I'm with Ally on the handbag front... useless and very annoying although I do own one and use it for work when I'm suited and booted but once the jeans go on the handbags I left behind and pockets full to over flowing with rubbish.... Thats why its always great when I'm skiing with the million and one pockets in my jackets! :D
Tony H - anyone wanting to put entries on a forum has to start sometime and so I suppose this guy thought now was as good a time as any since he was going away for the first time....
Tony H - anyone wanting to put entries on a forum has to start sometime and so I suppose this guy thought now was as good a time as any since he was going away for the first time....
Olly123456789
reply to 'Totally discouraged after dry ski slope lessons - advice sought' posted Apr-2010
I feel sorry for Silverflora, they came on here for advice and you slate them, as they said they were buy them self in a foren country, skiing for the first time. They come and post on here and you take the piss.
I think some of you need to think be for your post and use some of your obedient conmen sense.
I think some of you need to think be for your post and use some of your obedient conmen sense.
Brimster
reply to 'Totally discouraged after dry ski slope lessons - advice sought' posted Apr-2010
My fault I think Ally I wasn't really thinking about gender when I wrote my last reply but given the name you could be right - in fact I'm pretty sure I'm wrong given the style of writting to ah well I got accused of being a guy by Pabs so we all get it wrong!
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One thing I am however confused about when re-reading the post about the stolen skis is what s/he means about chairlift protocol and collecting skis from the bottom of the chair lift. I can't fathom a reason why you would be leaving your skis at a chair lift at the end of the day. Usually your heading "home" or to the bar...
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One thing I am however confused about when re-reading the post about the stolen skis is what s/he means about chairlift protocol and collecting skis from the bottom of the chair lift. I can't fathom a reason why you would be leaving your skis at a chair lift at the end of the day. Usually your heading "home" or to the bar...
Topic last updated on 16-April-2010 at 07:29