I think my husband has a secret life.
Me: I don’t get the difference between figure skating and ice dancing.
Sam: Well, figure skating is smooth with a series of elements that have to be shown, with dramatic air-type things and turns and jumps and stuff. The ice dancing is more dancey, if you will, with dance moves and lots of those close choppy steps.
Me: What about the long program? Good God, the long programs go on forever.
Sam: I think the longs are more dramatic and the shorts are more whimsical.
Me: Why do people watch this…?
Sam: OHHHHHHH!!! She! Just! Ate! Shit!!! She just went down on the first toss! These are Olympians?!? Isn’t that the whole point: That they defy gravity and don’t fall down? They had four motherfucking years to practice this shit and she falls on the first spin? That’s why people watch this shit! And–and!–you get bitchin’ crotch shots all day. Check it.
Me: “The Way We Were”? For real? Don’t they want people to stay awake for their long program? Hello 1973. Our century doesn’t have any music to choose from.
Sam: I like their little outfitsOHHHHHH!!! She ate shit!!! She went down on the triple salchow! That’s three for three. I don’t know…maybe one fall per deal is normal? I don’t know…Whoooa!!…She almost packed that in! She was starin’ at some serious ice right there…
Me: Okay. I’m gonna go work now.
I think Sam will agree that it’s not mistake they paired this year’s pairs figure skating with Snowboard Cross on last night’s broadcast. We saw a lot of people eat ice.
Hahahaha. Cooper and Sam could hang together. Figure skating is the ONLY competition my 3 year old son will watch. Luge? Snowboarding? Nope. Watching two people spin around on the ice with one throwing the other into the air where they may or may not fall? Yes PLEASE! Stops him dead in his tracks. So either he is a little masochist waiting for tragedy, or he likes the outfits.
Maybe Sam can come over tonight and watch ice dancing with me, seeing as my spouse just bailed and went to the gym, the gym where nobody will be wearing SparklePants or lutz-ing.