As you all know, Daniel has numerous outstanding qualities: twinkly blue eyes, charming accent, uncanny ability to fix anything–and that’s not even to mention his dance skills. However, he is terrible with names. We have a grand total of TWO couples in our group class right now and he can never remember anyone’s name other than mine. Better yet, he has actually renamed one of the men. The gentleman’s name is (let’s say) Alan but Daniel called him “Andy” every time. The first time, I corrected him. The second time, I corrected him. The third time, Alan’s wife and I corrected him in unison:
Him: “That was much better, Andy.”
Wife and me: “ALAN.”
We all cracked up. Dancing is fun but the relationships among the dancers are at least as much fun as the dancing itself. It is, after all, called social dancing. And maybe next week, Daniel will get Alan’s name right.
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Or, maybe Daniel can just adopt the Southern way of giving people generic nicknames, and call all the guys something like “Bubba” or “Bud” or “Sir,” and all the girls “Darlin’ ” or “Sugar” or “Ma’am!” Or, if he wants to seem more suave, Daniel can make up his own French Canadian endearments, and forget worrying about “real” names altogether! LOL!
Ha! That’s a great idea. He already says things in French without realizing it. Last night while demonstrating, he told one of our dancers “Regarde bien,” i.e., “watch this.” I don’t think he even noticed that he had spoken French!