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Hear me out and please tell me if I am off base here.
I have skied two days on chairlifts this year so far. First day was pretty busy and riding solo on a chair was not really an option. At least I never had a stranger RIGHT next to me. At least one person space in between.
Today was a very slow midweek. Empty chairs going up the mountain.
When I ski up to the maze with essentially no line at all, let the two people in front of me go by themselves, and then hang back standing dead center of the maze waiting for my own chair could it be any more clear that I want to ride alone? Am I over estimating people's spatial awareness?
Multiple times today there would be a grand total of 4-6 people in the entire line for 4/6/8 person chairs. Every damn time some joey last minute flies into the maze and jumps on the chair with me when it was pretty obvious I waited one extra chair to ride alone......
Not a powder day....marginal groomer skiing....not busy.....etc
Even had people jump ahead in line to squeeze on with the group of strangers one chair in front of me.....wtf?
Like I am not a super germaphobe, but waiting another 10 seconds for the next chair is that much of a problem for people? They HAVE to ride the chair with strangers during a pandemic?
I guess when you risked your life to fly across the country to spend $200 bucks to reserve a day to ski rock covered groomers during a global pandemic the whole waiting for an empty chair thing goes out the window?
Very very very little irks me, but I couldn't help get annoyed a couple times today.
Are you explicitly telling people you want to ride solo on the chair? Am I being insane?
I have skied two days on chairlifts this year so far. First day was pretty busy and riding solo on a chair was not really an option. At least I never had a stranger RIGHT next to me. At least one person space in between.
Today was a very slow midweek. Empty chairs going up the mountain.
When I ski up to the maze with essentially no line at all, let the two people in front of me go by themselves, and then hang back standing dead center of the maze waiting for my own chair could it be any more clear that I want to ride alone? Am I over estimating people's spatial awareness?
Multiple times today there would be a grand total of 4-6 people in the entire line for 4/6/8 person chairs. Every damn time some joey last minute flies into the maze and jumps on the chair with me when it was pretty obvious I waited one extra chair to ride alone......
Not a powder day....marginal groomer skiing....not busy.....etc
Even had people jump ahead in line to squeeze on with the group of strangers one chair in front of me.....wtf?
Like I am not a super germaphobe, but waiting another 10 seconds for the next chair is that much of a problem for people? They HAVE to ride the chair with strangers during a pandemic?
I guess when you risked your life to fly across the country to spend $200 bucks to reserve a day to ski rock covered groomers during a global pandemic the whole waiting for an empty chair thing goes out the window?
Very very very little irks me, but I couldn't help get annoyed a couple times today.
Are you explicitly telling people you want to ride solo on the chair? Am I being insane?
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