"Wear warm socks," Reno offered, smiling lopsidedly into the phone. "That's the only thing that ever kept my ass from freezin' off whenever the job had me up in the Icicle area, yo."

A pause, then, while that sank in.

"I wasn't wearin' the socks on my ass, by the way." He had to clarify these things, after all. "You know, I ain't never been skiing?"