The Dancing Fool






There was once this guy I knew who was the wildest dancer I had ever seen. Really. Before I saw him dance for the first time, I didn't think people could dance like that. In the back of my mind, I guess I had thought that there was some law of God, man or nature that would interdict it.

Anyway, I was at a party this one time and I espied him on the dance floor. As I watched him, I had a moment of cognitive dissonance which I soon realized was caused by the surprisingly sedate manner in which he "cutting the rug." There he was, out there, gyrating with only the fury of a drum major having an epileptic seizure instead of his customary pace of a dervish being attacked by fire ants.

I was wondering vaguely about this anomoly when the music stopped. I saw him and his erstwhile partner murmuring reciprocating thanks and then I saw him hop off the dance floor, pick up a pair of crutches and hobble off.

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