27 Aug
2013
27 Aug
'13
6:35 p.m.
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013, Greg McKenzie wrote:
Good ideas. As to the contra dance subculture: I was taken to my first
contra dance by a woman I had fallen in love with. We were there for only
a few minutes when a regular dancer came over to her and--without
acknowledging my presence or even making eye contact--asked my sweetheart
to dance. I was shocked. I thought it was the rudest thing I'd seen in
years. And I never forgot that guy.
I always try to remember that there are a lot of assumptions we make at
contra dances. Newcomers don't understand many of them.
Certainly. And there are also lots of assumptions behind any human
interaction. For example, I tend to be somewhat blind to a lot of
non-verbal cues (partly due to my hearing impairment, partly due to
personality), so I might well have done the same thing as "that guy"
simply because I didn't recognize the two of you as a couple.
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