Forced to have Fun

  My standard winter Sunday consists of an early alarm followed by a 45-minute drive to a local ski area where I'll catch the chair lift at 8:30 AM. At 10:30 it's time to warm up with a hot chocolate in the lodge at the top of the mountain along with the other mountain "regulars." The number of runs after the break depends on the conditions and the crowd.

   Then we tail gate.

   Food tastes better when grilled slope side. And there's always a show on the beginner hill next to our parking lot. Normally we begin to go home around 2:00 but cell phones started to ring soon after the first people left. 

  "Stay where you are." they said. An accident on the access road has traffic at a standstill. We soon discovered this was no ordinary accident. A tractor-trailer had jumped the side rail of an overpass to the access road. It's rear tires were stuck on the rail while the rest of the vehicle dangled over the edge to the road below. It was going to take a long time to clear this mess. 

   We moved the fun indoors where a band was playing. Several hours passed and the traffic nightmare continued. There were even unconfirmed reports of a bus fire. The band was scheduled to quit at 7:00 PM but management hired them for an additional 2 hours. We found ourselves in a festive atmosphere, forced to have fun!

   It was around 9:30 PM when we left the ski area. Traffic flowed smoothly in our direction but going the other way it was still backed up for miles. As we pulled into our driveway, it began to snow. 

   Wow! What a day.

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