Friday, March 1, 2013
Swing Dancing
So I have an upcoming swing dancing night and in talking about it was reminded of one fun night. I was at a local bar/ballroom for a swing dancing night. I was there with a few friends and we had had our fill of dancing and we were preparing to leave. As we were walking toward our jackets we were stopped by a short sort of square gentleman who the proceeded to ask me to dance. I thanked him and informed him that I was about to leave. His response was "well then you have to have one more dance." I agreed and walked to the dance floor as he introduced himself as "Panther"... yup no joke his name was Panther.
As I go to get into dance form I realize that he is much shorter them me making dancing a bit awkward feeling. I place my hand on his shoulder and realize that his entire shirt is completely soaked through in sweat..... and then the smell hits me... Its a combination of too much cologne and sweat and the image of Ron Burgundy and the scene where they have the sex panther cologne comes rushing to my head. I put a big smile on my face and get ready for my last dance of the night.
Panther starts twirling me around and whipping me all over the place which was a bit of a challenge with our height difference. I am actually having a great time as he spins me all over the place and then in one split second I come out of a spin with lots of momentum and go to take my "rock step" and our hands catch to stop my backwards motion and I feel the slippery wet hand slip right out of mine and next thing I know I am sliding across the floor on my back and through some poor guys legs. At this point I know that I have made such a fool of myself but everyone around is totally scared that I am hurt. I stand up laughing and brush myself off and go back to dancing. The poor guy is wiping his hands on his pants in an effort to remove the said sweat. As I am trying to finish up the dance I am looking at my friends who didn't come running to my rescue but are laughing so hard they have red faces and tears running down them!
So we will have to see if I run into any "panthers" on Saturday night!
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