No Dance Dance Revolution

You know that time of night when some old jams start to play, you hear some sweet 80's or 90s music blaring through the loud speaker and your feet start to tap to the beat and your arms start to swing around, maybe some rap is about to start and you feel your booty shaking to the ass dropping lyrics. Maybe you hear the Wilson sisters rendition of Hold On For One More Day, and think well they did it in Bridesmaids and I can do the dance. Or you hear NSYNC or Backstreet Boys and you think you know the entire choreographed routine. I am here to tell you that you do nott.

I have found the drunker people get the less their inner monologue says,"No do not embarrass yourself. Or No that poor waitress with the multiple drinks on her tray does not want any part of your dancing skills." Every weekend it seems myself and other waitresses included, try to make our way through the floor to deliver our drinks to a table waiting patiently, and it never fails that some man who is either blacked out or almost to that point starts to dance poorly and attempts to get us to dance with them. As much as I love to take part in random dancing numbers I can not seem to express enough that I would much rather make some money off of you then dance with you.

So that is my rant from a waitress point of view and now onto my rant as a normal person. Your dance moves are not good, you falling all over the place and knocking into the people around you is not fun to watch. Fist pumping is not a dance, it is an accident waiting to happen. I find it amusing when a dance circle breaks out into the middle of the floor and the poor soul is in the middle pretending they are the next best thing since Channing Tatum in Step Up, when in reality they are more reminiscent of a bad 80's teen movie. I always feel bad for the girls who get roped into the mix when guys start the dancing, you can see the fear in their face and there is no way to help them away. Friends of said gentleman should step up and pull their friend away, it's like a watching a deer in headlights get hit, not fun and terrorizing for the girl involved.

Now girls let's move on to you. Shaking your ass and "breaking it down" on the floor is unacceptable. Chances are you are being laughed at or annoying the other people around you. Also the girls who tend to dance tend to knock into more people and knock over drinks. You're dance moves are mediocre at best and should be kept for your living room when you are playing with your Kineckt gaming system. Unless you are Britney Spears keep it to a minimum. Also if you are bouncing around and knock into a server it is not our fault you can't keep your elbows to yourself and you are in our way. Do not throw us dirty looks or try to knock us over cause most of the time we are way more sober and can make things look like "accidents" words to live by.

Now I am not opposed to dancing, I myself love to dance, but I also know to keep it out of the way of everyone else and what I am good at and what I can not do. I do not think I am the next coming of Nicole Scherzinger nor will I try to be. I don't pop, lock, and drop it when I am not in a club, I think this is something we all need to remember. I am all for having fun but I am not all for people embarrassing themselves, ok that's a lie I totally am, but if it's in my way I am so not.

I took a video of a gentleman who thought he was a great dancer, this is what most of you look like so take heed the next time you feel the need to start a break out dance number: