Here’s a nice comic scene for you. Yesterday at Snowmass, I was flying down a double black…pretending to be thirty. It was not a complete success: i had a huge, hard fall – if you’re a skier, it was one of the ones where you miss the turn and then fall had into the next big hole. Not nice. I gather my wits and ski down.
THEN I realized that a hearing aid had popped out. So up the hill again and down those hideous bumps. Slowly. So here’s this old guy, crawling down the bumps. looking all over. For his little white hearing aid. In the snow. Old boys at play…a variation. no luck, natch. Hell, it’s only two grand!!
Life Lesson #409: do not wear your hearing aids when you ski.