why do people keep their lift tickets on the jacket?

[(vikm)]

Jimmypoo wrote:
Because they are status-hungry a$$holes with little or no common sense.

You left out the "douchebag" part. Otherwise you were spot on. I didn't know people still did this. As laughable now as it was then. I recall the tossers doing this when I was in high school in the 80's. Thought it was a passing fad. Although, many other things from the 80's are back in style, too. Hmmm, who knows?

(if it was pure laziness, these same people would leave the tags on the clothes they buy from a store, too. Not buying it).

[M A V I C]

(vikm) wrote:
(if it was pure laziness, these same people would leave the tags on the clothes they buy from a store, too. Not buying it).

Tags on clothes can usually just be yanked off. Removing lift tickets often require wire cutter or at least beefy scissors.

[SDGuy]

(vikm) wrote:
...You left out the "douchebag" part....

Beat me to it...

[Wailer]

As a teenager, I used to keep them on because the lift operators would be too lazy to sort through them to see that I didn't have a valid one. Sometimes I had a valid one in my pocket but forgot to put it on.

Occasionally I got some motivated employee who would cut off all my old ones and find that I didn't have a valid one.

[Black]

This was popular in grammar school among the very few in my working class suburb who could afford such luxuries. Personally I never knew what they were for until much later.
There was one family who would come back tan from vacations-- that was just baffling to most of us.

[sekker]

Our group lift tickets only came with a few of the metal tags - you were expected to reuse them. It's easier to just put a new sticker over the old than try to find a new tag.

[testcase]

It was a convenient place to attach the next week's ticket. Once there were a few tickets, they didn't crumple as easy as a single ticket would. At the end of the season, I'd haul out wire snips, snip the one metal bail and, wash the jacket. :oldfogey:

[Jimmypoo]

M A V I C wrote:
Tags on clothes can usually just be yanked off. Removing lift tickets often require wire cutter or at least beefy scissors.

SDGuy wrote:
[quote=(vikm)]
...You left out the "douchebag" part....

Beat me to it...

[OWC Jamie]

sekker wrote:
Our group lift tickets only came with a few of the metal tags - you were expected to reuse them. It's easier to just put a new sticker over the old than try to find a new tag.

+

and if you look closely sometimes they are several layers thick.


maybe if you never get off the bunny slopes you get the real ones ? :-)

[sunfalcon]

Who cares? Seriously - I'm a skier and sometimes it stays on and other times, I cut it off. What difference does it make? Why do people have tatoos? Should we ask them about those so they can tell us all about them? A lift ticket on your jacket really is not a big deal. At least people are getting out and having fun in the snow!