Dear Craig: Please Get Rid of the 'Fun Police'!

Dear Craig,

I've decided that in between writing to you about my weekly sales, I'll write little letters to you so that you can get to know me a bit better. Perhaps if you know me better you'll buy more things from me.

So here's what I'm pondering this week...why does it seem that the 'fun police' keep winning? I belong to a ski club and have done so my entire life. As a kid I skied all day, tobogganed on the hills all night and enjoyed dressing up in wild costumes for Mardi Gras where you had to be able to ride the t-bar and parade down the hill in your costume. As we got older, we would have events where we would drink gluwein (mulled wine) during Spring skiing while soaking up the sun riding the bumps. We would go to the bar after skiing and either ski or walk down the hill at the end of the night (in the dark). Once a year there was the torch light parade where 30-40 instructors would ski down the hill at night with lit torches in each hand. It was beautiful.

I have kids of my own now and guess what? They aren't allowed to toboggan on the hills at night because they might hurt themselves and sue the club. They can't walk or ski down the hill after 4:20pm precisely or they'll get chased down by the ski patrollers. Mardi Gras costumes are banned because they might catch on the lift and hurt the skier so they changed it to crazy hat day and now it's just nothing. The torch light parade is gone too, I guess someone might hurt themselves and sue the club. It's the 'fun police'...they're winning the battle!