[Tango-L] "Would you like to lead or follow?"

[Nina Pesochinsky]

At least she asked for your preference... :)  Maybe she was just 
tryig to impress you, sort of like doing a sword fight while wearing 
a long dress.

Amazing that you danced with her after that exchange.  That was very 
nice of you.  If I was a man, I would have walked away without a word 
and never looked at her again.

Christopher Walken is amazing.  He is brilliant portraying sociopaths 
with a conscience, which does not exist in real life.  As far as an 
effective attitude for strange tango incidents goes, how about Javier 
Braden in "No Country for Old Men", without the air can vacuum 
thing?  I kinda like the whole thing without words.

This was the funniest post that I have read in a long time.  Thank you, Mario!

Nina


At 11:54 PM 7/18/2008, Mario wrote:
>Tonight, I asked a woman to dance. She replied, "Would you like to 
>lead or follow?"
>   I was startled. I answered "Do I look like a follow?..Hello-o-o. 
> I had lapsed into Valley girl
>   speak when what I should have done was my impersonation of 
> Christopher Walken.
>   So, Ok, I got it together and did my best Chris "Wow, this is 
> confusing!..I dance tango in order to feel like a man...and what do 
> I get?...unisex?
>    What's this.. no more man, woman? Is that it? ...she replied 
> again, "No, I just wanted to
>   know if you wanted to lead or follow?"  I could have milked the 
> scene, it was rich material
>   so, I did a couple more lines in my best Christopher Walken voice 
> (whenever I feel vulnerable, I go to Chris) and then we danced.
>    It's the man who approaches the woman. It takes a bit of nerve 
> to feel like you can
>   pull it off with her...it's not easy.  There should be some 
> respect..I don't get any respect.
>
>
>
>
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