Be Smart; Spend Money On Ski Clothing Rather Than Actual Skiing Gear
It’s a continual mystery why people fall in love with skiing. After all, it’s nothing more than trying to get down Mount Everest on a couple of wooden boards that usually direct one right into the tree line at about Mach 3. However, at least the clothing can help one look good while crashing. So be smart; spend money on ski clothing rather than actual skiing gear.
Think about things for a minute; Alpine skiing usually involves careening like a madman down the slope and on Alpine skiing equipment that costs literally hundreds and even thousands of dollars. Now; most ski resorts rent that stuff and at a price that’s bound to be less than the three-month hospital stay that usually occurs after improper Alpine skiing is done by folks who have no business on slick wooden boards and snow.
And that’s why it’s probably the smartest idea of all to just rent a pair of skis and by all of that high-tech and very good-looking clothing. Looking good versus being good should went out every time, and besides; who’s really going to care if — while looking good — every skier on the mountain is laughing uproariously while the good-looking skier is tumbling down a bunny slope?
Still, spending a little dough on a nice black sport watch that’s timed to chime when happy hour over at the chalet is set to begin is probably worth all of the accolades that might be thrown one’s way after skiing down a black diamond slope, though one was actually looking for the restroom at the top of the lift. Of course, ‘skiing down’ implies actually doing so deliberately. ‘Falling down’ was actually what happened.
All of this obsessing over skis and poles misses the fact that the real money should be spent on a nice black helmet. This little beauty will hide all the blood stains and the huge dents that were put in the helmet from smacking into the many trees that lined the big slope that was skied down. Actually, ‘ski’ should probably be substituted for the word ‘crash, ‘ in this regard.
There’s really no deep secret to skiing as long as one understands that it’s a sport designed to get a human as close as possible to the speed of light while wearing funny looking footboards designed to not handle icy, frozen white water crystals very well. The sport certainly seems to have been designed by some cruel god more interested in torturing the little humans through skiing than anything else, sad to say.
It’s probably smart to just go out, spend money on some seriously good-looking ski clothing and save the money that skiing equipment would cost and apply it to a nice life insurance policy. The rental stuff looks just as good outside the ski clubhouse, while the renter of it is inside, enjoying happy hour and looking really good in all his finery. Really; who wants to ski anyway?