The Ski Lodge

The Ski Lodge
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I met this bird in a ski lodge in Colorado 6 years ago. He worked as a college professor at Harvard University in the field of European History and he was there with his family on vacation over the Christmas holidays. His wife and two children were out skiing, and he was sitting in the lodge having broken his leg on the slopes.

He was fairly depressed, and he went on to tell me about his marital problems. Apparently, his wife had grown tired of his company and had decided to have an affair. She worked in a graveyard as a zombie guard – looking for zombies to come out of the graves at night, and killing them before they get a chance. Apparently one of these zombies had been the zombie of her old high school sweetheart, and she couldn't resist.

She had just informed him a few days ago, and told him that their marriage was over, and she was going to get remarried to the zombie. She wanted to keep the children, but he didn't think they should be raised by zombies – zombies tend to be bad influences. He had already noticed his wife's meals start to have side orders of brains.

I don't know what became of him, because at this point in the story I decided to go get some hot chocolate, and when I returned, he was gone. It wasn't a big loss to be honest; I was beginning to tire of his story.