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Let’s play.

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Because you’re not too busy right now.

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I know I was born in the wrong era, but I always wished I had learned to swing dance.

Back when I had a fully functional knee that is, it wouldn’t be a pretty sight now.

The Big Bands, the Lindy Hop, the energy… it just looks like fun.

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How about you?

What do you always wish you had learned…

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27 thoughts on “Let’s play.”

  1. Actually, I am quite busy getting ready to get on the road for the first time in 4 months! Woohoo! But, I’ll play anyway. I wish I had learned sign language. When I was a teenager I bought a sign language book and put in the effort for about two weeks and then we got an Atari. ‘Nuff said.

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    2. It’s sooooo fun!! It’s a “conceptual” language, not a literal/direct one, so yourbody and facial expressions are part of it.

      I took classes back in the late 80s and have forgotten so much (plus mixed 2 different sign languages) that I wanted to take classes again. But whereas I used to go 2 nights/week, classes are now 5 days a week, daytime only.

      There is (was?) a free online course from Oklahoma School For The Deaf but it’s hard to study if you don’t have a live instructor or deaf acquaintance.

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  2. I wish I had stuck with my piano lessons. My mom actually paid for me to take piano when I was in 6th grade. I went to five, and then softball season started so, I quit piano for sports. I regret not going back and learning because I think I could benefited from learning.

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      1. Me too! But I tried keyboard many years later and figured out that I can’t read music. Each symbol means too many things… timing, duration, tone, hand position, etc

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  3. In my inimitable way, i’ll tell you things I wish I had never learned. In the end it just may tell you what I didn’t learn when I needed to. Mind you, I have learned it over time.
    Smoking. Gambling. Drinking alcohol. Hanging with the wrong friends (which may not mean what you would expect). And the biggest of all, How to lie!

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  4. It is very fun, especially with a strong partner who dances to the music and is athletic enough to throw you around. I’m glad I danced when I could, because I’m definitely not doing it now. When we danced hustle, the guys would trade off, just like in the video you posted.

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      2. WHOAAAA!! I’m redonk envious!!

        I learned the value of a good partner when someone tried to “couples dance” with me and it was a disaster. I assumed I was the problem till, years later, a coworker spun me around a dance floor with grace and style.

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  5. After a few moments, I realize there is one thing I have tried over and over, but have never learned — to type with two hands. It is the bane of my existence.i taught myself to type with one finger before I was even in school. I became very proficient at, got up to 30 words a minute until they brought out these cursed screen keyboards.
    I love to write, as probably you noticed, but my brain is hardwired for one finger. On a screen keyboard i make 30 typos a minute, Slows me right down…
    And makes me look messy as hell. (This comment I proofread 3 times to make it pretty.)

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  7. Speak for yourself. I loved learning sign but have never used it. If my knees worked, I could be at swing dances every night of the week!!
    (Trurle but, yeah, I’m just screwin’ with ya)

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  8. Similar to yours. Whenever I go to a wedding and I see all the old couples dancing I lament that dancing lessons weren’t just part of normal life like they were in my parents’ day. Also Latin. Wish I had learned that in school, but it wasn’t offered.

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