\tI think it\u0092s safe to say… I should stay clear of ski school groups on the mountain.<\/p>\n
\tGenerally, when the class needs to take the lift, the teacher just asks adults waiting to ride if they\u0092ll go with one of the kids.<\/p>\n
\tThis afternoon at Chamrousse, no one asked me when I ended up riding the lift with a little boy. I don\u0092t know how old he was.. I\u0092d guess 5 or so. He didn\u0092t say a word to me the entire ride up. I didn\u0092t say anything to him, either. It\u0092s hard to strike up a conversation with a little kid, especially in a foreign language. So I opted to enjoy the quiet. He did start to count the chairs passing us going down the lift, confirming that he was French.<\/p>\n
\tAs we got to the top, I raised the safety bar, said \u0093un, deux, trois!\u0094 then hopped off the chair…. realizing too late I didn\u0092t know how to say \u0093stand up.\u0094 But I figured they\u0092d at least gotten briefed by their teacher, if they hadn\u0092t already made the trip up this afternoon. Apparently, I was wrong. <\/p>\n
\tAs I started to ski away from the lift, I realized the little boy wasn\u0092t next to me. I turned around and saw he was still on the lift, riding it as it turned around to go back down the mountain. The operator stopped it, and the boy leapt off. The operator then lept from his booth and yelled at me that it\u0092s dangerous to jump. Well, no shit, dude. I didn\u0092t tell the boy to jump. The operator seemed to chalk up my stupidity to not speaking French. Whatever. I struggled to help the boy get his wayward ski back on… moving him out of the way of the chairs. Finally his teacher made it up. He probably didn\u0092t see the boy\u0092s leap of faith and he thanked me for helping. Little does he know…. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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