I Just Want to Dance

France has the greatest metro music.  Metro music is like elevator music, except it's played in the metro stations instead of in elevators.

Also, metro music is way cooler than elevator music.

For example, this morning while I was waiting for the metro, You Shook Me All Night Long came on.  I looked at the people around me and no one was at all excited that such a great song was playing.  I, on the other hand, was trying very hard to not break out into song and dance at the chorus.

This evening my roommate and I went to a party.  We were waiting for the metro and 1999 by Prince came on.  Once again no one around seemed to care about the music.  And once again I had to try and stop myself from singing and dancing.

While we were waiting for her friends (again, in a metro station) we listened to a lot of very weird 1950s-almost-jazz music.  This time, though, there was barely anyone else in the station with us and I couldn't help myself.  I started to dance.  (I didn't know the words, so singing wasn't really an option.)  And once I started, it was really hard to stop.

Anyway, we finally made it to the club, and you know what?  I was all danced out for the day.

Actually, that's not entirely true.  The real problem is I don't know how to dance at a club.  Dancing at a club is much different than at a metro station because you can't jump around and do spins.  Plus also there are a whole bunch of lights flashing in your face and you can't see your feet to know if you're about to run into someone.

Which is why at a club you either have to do the Hitch or the make-out-with-someone-on-the-dance-floor-and-pretend-like-your-dancing.

I tried really hard to stick to the Hitch, but every once in a while I would look at my feet and realize they were no longer moving.  I also wasn't making out with anyone, so there were large parts of the evening when I was on the dance floor not dancing (or even pretending to dance).

I then realized that clubs are not for math people.  Or maybe they're just not for socially awkward people.  Either way, I am not made for the club.  I don't have that natural sense of what's appropriate dancing when there are other people around that so many people my age have been blessed it.

Consequently, I have decided to stop going to clubs.  I'm just going to hang out at the metro station.  The music is better, anyway.