Meh, I don't blame her for taking your pass... no matter who you are. To them, you're just another guest of the resort. That's right, a GUEST. I work at Bear Mountain, and liftees here get a cash incentive to catch people MISUSING their passes in any way; whether it be using a Non-Holiday pass on a Holiday weekend, or using the express line without having the proper credentials on your pass. While it may suck that you got your pass taken away for purposefully using the express line, from the liftee's perspective, they're doing their job, like the resort wants them to do (to avoid loosing money) and she's getting rewarded for doing her job. Cut the chick some slack, had she just given you a warning, I'm willing to bet you would have done it again. Now that you're getting raped for it, I highly doubt you'll try the same thing again.