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. -- Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 http://rule6.info/ <*> <*> <*> Help a hearing-impaired person: http://rule6.info/hearing.html
