On a recent ski trip with friends, we decided to have a challenge and the loser would have to ski the last run of the day naked!
I should start out by saying that yes, I absolutely love to be naked but that no, this was not my idea... When I heard the idea though I made sure to conceal my excitement, I actually went out of my way to try and suggest that it was a bad idea. Imagine my panic when I almost succeeded in convincing the others! thankfully they were swayed by someone more persuasive and I fell in line, feigning resignation to concede.
On the inside, I was brimming with excitement and knew I had to make sure it was going to be me but I needed to play it cool and seem like it was an accident that I lost and had to do this shameful deed but we had to set out some ground rules first... One of the more bashful in the group suggest that we wait until the very last opportunity to do the naked ski run, we all agreed, nobody wants to make a scene and upset anyone unnecessarily. "No cheating" said someone else, "fully naked, from the top to the bottom of the hill" group murmuring ensued, the girls in the group were not happy but eventually agreed to the terms. Totally naked meant the others collectively carried the clothes, whoever lost was going to be completely nude...
The challenge took more agreeing on, we are a fairly evenly matched group of skiers, different strengths and weaknesses naturally. Jumping was suggested but quickly shouted down by more than supported it, a straight out race idea gained some momentum but seemed like a recipe for disaster with the high stakes competitive nature besides, 8 people all racing on the same slope seemed unfair to other skiers not embroiled in our nonsense so we settled on a speed run, we all have watches that track our respective speeds, we can take turns and all converge at the bottom to reveal the results and there would be no doubt, the skier with the slowest maximum speed loses.