“- and these happen every four of your Earth years?”
“Yeah, with two years between summer and winter Olympics.”
“Winter Olympics is all the ice based sports?”
“Which is what we are watching here.”
“Looks like he’s sliding down the mountain on one of your tea trays, minus the kitten images.” Gary didn’t notice as Steven flushed a deep red and spluttered indignantly “Why?”
“They are sliding down on your Gran’s tea trays?”
“No, no, they have their own, I was- oh never mind.” Steve waved the question away and pointed at the tv to refocus.
“I suppose it originates from tobogganing, using a sled to get down an icy or snowy slope. Here they’re trying to get down the track as fast as possible so the sled has become smaller and more aerodynamic to help. There’s another version called skeleton where they do the same but go down head first.”
“Ohh, right. I suppose that is understandable.”
They lapsed into silence as their attention returned once more to the tv.
“Coming up next is Jerry with the doubles luge final runs, but first highlights from this mornings session.”
“Are they lying on top of each other?!”
“I believe so Human Steve.”
“This is not considered typical behaviour?”
“Er-” Steve was still staring at the spectacle onscreen.
“Human Steve, I have questions.”
