Oct. 14, 2001, 12:39 p.m. (Message 27886, in reply to message 27880)
Hi As many of you already know, I have a scottish husband, who doesn't dance SCD - the reason being, that in his primary school years, at PE time, a certain PE-teacher, line the boys up along one side of the hall, and the girls along the other side of the hall, and then asked the boys to select a partner - and my husband, always ended up with 'larger than life-Louise' - my dear husband now only dances at weddings and ceidlidhs -while I now dance with his former PE-teacher - a source of constant amusement in this family. We used to have the same approach in my ball-room dancing classes when I was a kid on the first day of dancing of the new term - and the chosen one was the one you danced with that year or more. Well, as you can imagine - a lot of politicking when on prior to the first day of dancing - between parents (read mothers) - and very proud was my mama when the best dancer of the boys came and bowed to me - only to be told my myself, that I had already selected my partner - a girl! I don't think my mother or this boy spoke to me for days :>) It just goes to show - dance doesn't change. If pre-booking is a problem, why not introduce a version of ladies choice, or a stranger's choice - where you have to dance with someone you don't know - you might even enjoy it. :>) Pia