Ok, here it comes. It's a bit out of order so we'll turn the clock back to last Fall, 2022. There. Fall was in the air which meant square dancing was about to get going again for another season. Judy and I had pretty much quit square dancing during the pandemic so I was a bit rusty but I have had so much fun with it over the years that I thought I'd give it a try and see if I remembered anything. I pulled out the definitions and glanced through them thinking "this stuff is a foreign language". Although we had been dancing C2 for a couple of years, I never did really feel comfortable at that level. There wasn't any Advanced dancing to speak of so that left C1 and all the way back to Plus. I decided to try both.
I let my C2 friends know that I was looking for a new partner and got a call a few days later from Mary Ann. A new single lady was looking. I showed up at the next C2 dance a bit late, just in time to see the last car pull out of the lot. There weren't enough to make a square so Ross had cancelled the dance. I hurried over to Bronc's C1 dance just in time to catch the "single lady" who also had just left Ross's C2 hall. To make a long story short, I finished the season with Karen and we did just fine. It's sort of like riding a bicycle.
But what about Plus? Earlier in the week I had gone to Bronc's plus dance intending to either take pot luck or dance with Fia, Bronc's wife. As I was signing in, this tiny little lady came running across the hall squealing "this one is MINE"! When I stood up and glanced at her name tag, I said "you're not going to believe this". Her name was Judy. She had been dancing as a single for the past 10 years after her husband had died and was known far and wide as "Jude the dude". We also finished out the season and didn't miss many plus dances in the valley. We've since become "an item" (Karen's words, not mine) and my kids call her Judy Toody.
Here she is with me and the gang in Mexico a few days ago...she's the teetotaler.
