Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Christmas and Buckets

December is filled with traditions, mistletoe and sleigh rides, jingle bells and Yule logs, dancing and buckets. You’re not familiar with the bucket tradition? Well, it comes around every year with the first snow. Less than an inch of snow and the buckets come out at one of our usual dance venues. They catch the drips that come through the ceiling, creating what I affectionately call a “water feature”. In actuality I think water trap is more like it.
There’s a strange thing that happens whenever there’s any kind of obstruction on the dance floor. The skill of the dancers on a floor is directly proportional to the size of the floor. So, with each inch you lose, people dance worse. That’s amazing, since there are always fewer dancers on the floor when the weather’s bad. Dance physics, I guess.

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