Yeah,I remember those...I good way to avoid walking around the dance,looking like a dork,was to volunteer to work pouring beer...Then you didn't have to wait in line 'cuz you always kept your own cup full,and you could avoid deep,meaningful but mostly uncomfortable mixing w/ the ladies...
Johnny, if you think those dances were weird for the guys, just imagine how awful they were for the women. Pressure to "get a man," juxtaposed with pressure to be demure, somewhat shy, and not too Sadie-Hawkins-ish.
Wearing a dot on one's nametag which screamed "I'm looking" was not exactly demure.
Dot? Red Dot? I thought someone saw me with a sunburn!
Johnny, you know what I did when they did the dot thing? I took off the RED dot and went and got a yellow dot. I told people I was engaged before I ever was, because that whole thing was VERY weird. Girls I was friends with became competition and the guys looked at me as if I were desperate. So, I got my dot changed.
The heart behind it may have been okay, but the red dot people did seem to want to get engaged by the end of one dance....
Dorothy Thompson:
Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.
Why thank you Rocky, and thank you Lightside. And yes she does remember the apartment balcony falling off the side of the what was it, second story? And with all of those people on it too! Were you on it Lightside? I have heard that story from her a couple of times. She told me that she had just stepped inside from the balcony and it fell off and onto the ground. But nobody was seriously hurt, right? Yeah, she has always thought of that as a big one in the God's Grace department..
And yes, Not in Kansas, I am sure it was way weird for the girls too. Because, all of the sudden, girls that were my friends, my buddies, all of a sudden became "possible prospectives" and some (not all did seem "desperate") or just plain didn't know how to act. That was what was weird to me. When I finally saw my future wife and Carolynn Young (now Walters), they were in the process of making their escape like me.
And Dot, I hadn't thought of the "competition thing", but I can see that too. What if you had changed your dot to a black dot? That mighta been pretty funny. Wish I had thought of that..
The sad thing was womem who spent an hour with a guy were talking about him like this could be "the one". Freaky.
One of the guys, I was very good friends with, was being discussed like that... I thought there is no way he is going to go for someone this determined to "get him." And he didn't even though she swore God told her she was going to marry him.
Dorothy Thompson:
Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.
I remember thinking that there should be black dots for people who got divorced during the year. I know, I know, that's not nice... but hey...
Once, I saw someone who had been married when she went in rez, but had since divorced. Her name tag had a different last name on it, but no dot I asked her if she'd gotten remarried. She looked at me with a bit of indignation and said "No... that's my maiden name." Like I was supposed to know that.... sheesh...
She needed a black dot
Hope R. color>size>face>
What a long, strange trip it's been!size>face>color>
Well the person I wanted to marry, was convinced to marry someone else instead, I believe. I was never told that but the whole thing leaned that way. She all of a sudden made up her mind.
No this was not a Red Dot thing, just the only person I would have married whilst in TWI. She lived out of state, but we spent hours on the phone with each other. Even slept together(not sex, SLEEP) in her tent at the last Rock. I am sure she was convinced to marry this other guy, who btw, was her WOW brother.
:(--> Guess I will never know. They are still "in."
"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood"..........but hey, I love to see a good Clothesline once in a while!
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Yeah,I remember those...I good way to avoid walking around the dance,looking like a dork,was to volunteer to work pouring beer...Then you didn't have to wait in line 'cuz you always kept your own cup full,and you could avoid deep,meaningful but mostly uncomfortable mixing w/ the ladies...
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Jonny,
Congrats to you and Shannon on that twenty years and may you have at least twenty more and I hope they are all wonderful.
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Shannon was my area leader in Rhode Island, 1977.
I think it was her interm year in the corps???
She lived in Craaaanston, what a girl....
Ask her if she remembers the patio collapse PFAL experience, a miracle of God's grace.
Congrats, 20 years, It's a miracle in these days and times.
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Johnny, if you think those dances were weird for the guys, just imagine how awful they were for the women. Pressure to "get a man," juxtaposed with pressure to be demure, somewhat shy, and not too Sadie-Hawkins-ish.
Wearing a dot on one's nametag which screamed "I'm looking" was not exactly demure.
"Live just, and fear not."
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ItsStillTheWord
Was this like a Red Dot Sale I see at the mall sometimes?
Usually can get an extra 10-15% off.
Hurry-Supplies are limited.
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Dot? Red Dot? I thought someone saw me with a sunburn!
Johnny, you know what I did when they did the dot thing? I took off the RED dot and went and got a yellow dot. I told people I was engaged before I ever was, because that whole thing was VERY weird. Girls I was friends with became competition and the guys looked at me as if I were desperate. So, I got my dot changed.
The heart behind it may have been okay, but the red dot people did seem to want to get engaged by the end of one dance....
Dorothy Thompson:
Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.
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Why thank you Rocky, and thank you Lightside. And yes she does remember the apartment balcony falling off the side of the what was it, second story? And with all of those people on it too! Were you on it Lightside? I have heard that story from her a couple of times. She told me that she had just stepped inside from the balcony and it fell off and onto the ground. But nobody was seriously hurt, right? Yeah, she has always thought of that as a big one in the God's Grace department..
And yes, Not in Kansas, I am sure it was way weird for the girls too. Because, all of the sudden, girls that were my friends, my buddies, all of a sudden became "possible prospectives" and some (not all did seem "desperate") or just plain didn't know how to act. That was what was weird to me. When I finally saw my future wife and Carolynn Young (now Walters), they were in the process of making their escape like me.
And Dot, I hadn't thought of the "competition thing", but I can see that too. What if you had changed your dot to a black dot? That mighta been pretty funny. Wish I had thought of that..
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The sad thing was womem who spent an hour with a guy were talking about him like this could be "the one". Freaky.
One of the guys, I was very good friends with, was being discussed like that... I thought there is no way he is going to go for someone this determined to "get him." And he didn't even though she swore God told her she was going to marry him.
Dorothy Thompson:
Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.
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Lightside, Mrs. Lingo left a message for you in your private topics deal...
J.L.
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I was thinking of skipping the dot thing altogether and just going with a "Will Work For Sex Sign".
Without Coffee
I Would Have No Personality At All
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Now, now, good ol' docvic always said any two bee..leavehers could make a go of it being as they was all like minded on the wurd.
Way II much fun for one man.
love ya,
Bob Hansen
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I just remembered a good thing about the last Dot dance I attended; it was the last time that I ever had a chance to dance with Harry Cox.
He was one sweet guy, and a heckuva dancer.
God rest his soul.
"Live just, and fear not."
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I remember thinking that there should be black dots for people who got divorced during the year. I know, I know, that's not nice... but hey...
Once, I saw someone who had been married when she went in rez, but had since divorced. Her name tag had a different last name on it, but no dot I asked her if she'd gotten remarried. She looked at me with a bit of indignation and said "No... that's my maiden name." Like I was supposed to know that.... sheesh...
She needed a black dot
Hope R. color>size>face>
What a long, strange trip it's been!size>face>color>
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Some former spouses need more than a black dot! ;)-->
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Well the person I wanted to marry, was convinced to marry someone else instead, I believe. I was never told that but the whole thing leaned that way. She all of a sudden made up her mind.
No this was not a Red Dot thing, just the only person I would have married whilst in TWI. She lived out of state, but we spent hours on the phone with each other. Even slept together(not sex, SLEEP) in her tent at the last Rock. I am sure she was convinced to marry this other guy, who btw, was her WOW brother.
:(--> Guess I will never know. They are still "in."
"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood"..........but hey, I love to see a good Clothesline once in a while!
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JohnnyLingo-
I have a question about the C. Young you mentioned in the first post. I sent you a private topic thingy.
~HAPe4me
A candle loses nothing of its light by lighting another candle.
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