Re: [Callers] booking ahead & mixers - Contra Callers

21 May 2006

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 From: &lt;jerome23(a)bellsouth.net&gt;
How about this: Before a mixer, tell dancers that if they've booked ahead 
you will give them special dispensation to put off that partner for this 
one dance, since it will be a mixer. So go find someone you've never danced 
with (or not danced with tonight, or some schtick) because this is, after 
all, a MIXER dance. 
It was dealing with this issue that got me married. The first time Christine 
and I were partners for a dance slot, at the Glen Echo Friday Night Dance, 
it turned out to be a mixer (with no prior announcement). So we booked the 
next slot to do a contra together, even though I didn't regularly book 
ahead. All of that gave us enough time to start talking . . .  and now here 
comes our 4th wedding anniversary.

Jeremy