lesson learned last night:

[swingchickie]

sex dwarf and hooping do not mix.

southstman was a doll for letting me bring dhpdesign's hoop and one of my own to try them out on the dance floor... the plan was to play with them until the dance floor started to get crowded, then he'd hold them in the DJ booth for us. i got a few minutes of dance time in right after the club opened, it was just me and dhpdesign in one corner of the floor and a couple all the way across the dance floor. plenty of room.

except when i started really getting into dancing, somehow during "halo" (the easiest move in hooping) it flew out of my hand and shot like a giant frisbee right in the direction of that other couple, sliding to a stop right next to them. *smacking forehead* i felt like such a tool.

needless to say, i apologized, scooped up my hoop, and didn't use it again for the rest of the night. so, the takeaway from this is: if you're hooping indoors with even one other person around, no off-body stuff.

and i don't think the documentary crew were there at that point, so i at least won't have to worry about that being captured on camera.

oh -- the rest of sex dwarf? freaking phenomenal. the "puppet karaoke" puppets sang up in the balcony, a Divine impersonator performed at midnight, and the music was so good i actually lasted until after 1am! walking home with the hoop was quite an experience, though -- south street was crowded, and everyone wanted to know what the hoop was for. "izzat a hula hoop?" "hey! can i see it?" "i'll giveyoo fi' dawlliz if you do it right here!" hee.

Comments

[boutell.livejournal.com]

Aw! You were so apologetic about it that I thought you'd actually hit some poor sucker with the thing, not merely landed it in their vicinity. (;

That was a really good Dwarf. Something to remember during the dwarfless parental-on-Fridays months to follow. I was expecting a larger group, but any night involving dhpdesign and swingchickie and babyraven and rhiann31 is pretty freaking awesome already. Also got to say hello to Tenacious Steve of the Locust Bar karaoke scene.

[swingchickie.livejournal.com]

no, i didn't want to get to the point of hitting anyone, especially after a near miss... remember, those things weigh like 2 pounds and travel FAST.

not to mention that the crowd didn't seem very receptive to the whole hooping thing to begin with... lots of eye-rolling and snickering to be had before you got there. figured i should quit while i was not-quite-ahead. :)

[boutell.livejournal.com]

Aw man! Sorry I didn't get there sooner! It's a well-known rule, one freak is pathetic but two freaks are cooler than you.

[dhpdesign.livejournal.com]

Wow, I got no such reaction from the later crowds as I walked home with my hoop.

Peeps don't know what fun is, and that was a fun night.

2lbs, travels FAST, not a kitten

[ms-violet.livejournal.com]

There has to be a statistical correlation between the presence of objects in the area that need to not be hit with a hula hoop and the actuality of said objects being hit. Por ejemplo: If I'm out in the driveway with nooobody watching, I can go from halo back down to my chest & waist a hundred times with no problems at all, to the point that it gets boring. Yesterday, with an audience, I couldn't do it once without rocketing the damn thing off laterally in any direction, and I nailed Vince's dad's car once.

and the snickering eye-rollers? They're just jealous.