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From: regard@ttidcc.UUCP (Adrienne Regard)
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Subject: dancing
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Date: Tue, 23-Apr-85 14:38:16 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 23 14:38:16 1985
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Re dancing, G Skinner's questions:

I like dancing mucho, but I don't like sitting around drinking too much
trying to make uninteresting conversation interesting at the top of my
lungs.  Consequently, I dance with friends, at places where we go in a
group.  When I've gone to bars ostensibly to "meet new people" it's
invariably been disappointing.  Most of the men I danced with danced once
(as in, it's obligatory) then wanted to sit around at my table talking (as
in, what's your number).  I finally got up the guts (or hardshell) enough
to tell one of them that "It's been nice talking, but I came here to dance"
his face fell so ludicrously that I felt bad for a week.

The most wonderful thing is to have a dancing partner (or a number of 'em)
who simply enjoys that form of exercise, and you go have fun.  I don't go
dancing anymore as a single, and I meet new people other places.  Dancing
is reserved for doing with my buddies and my live-in, who is a poor dancer
but enthusiastic.  And if we went out dancing together, and he DIDN'T
dance with me (your last question, Greg) he'd be dead meat by the time we
got home (as in, you don't go to a basketball game to discuss politics).