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Pia Walker

Pia Walker

Re: Malcolm's Vision

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

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