The Greatest Joke I Ever Heard While on a Ski Lift

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by Joe Váradi

He introduced himself as a sales manager from Northern Virginia. The gregarious, instafriend type.

When you’re paired up with a stranger on a ski lift, haplessly trapped under the same metal bar, dangling above the same arctic abyss, fidgeting with fogged-over goggles and snow-caked giant gloves just to pass the time, it is always a treat…