Well, now I see who all the wallflowers were in high school.
You guys must have been letting the best parts of life pass you by.
1982, my crew gets invited an airshow at HMS (now RNAS) Yeovilton in England. So we fly our mighty P-3C Orion in there and spend a whole day doing the show. We got invited to a party at the base club, and we show up ready to cut loose, and as we walk in we see nothing but a sea of guys drinking beer. There isn't a gal in sight! We're thinking "worst party EVER!" Then we noticed one of our maintenance folks had disappeared, and one of my pilots and I went over to the dance room to see if he was there, and behold... heaven! Nothing but hundreds of women dancing! As quick as we opened the door we both had girls yanking us out on the floor and we were off to the races. It turned out the Brit guys would rather drink than dance, and the gals were always left to themselves... until 23 Yanks showed up. So the Brit guys got drunk, and we all went home with at least two girls a piece.
A while back I got stuck with chaperoning a school dance for my daughter's middle school (7-8-9th grade). This was back about 2004 or so. The dance starts, and the DJ is playing all this barfy "dance" music that was all the rage at the time, and I was watching the kids dance and just shaking my head. Most of them looked like they would rather be dead than there. I noticed another chaperone who was a nice looking lady about my age, and I strolled over to her and commented on how bad the music and dancing was, and she agreed that it was a shame the kids couldn't grow up on disco like we did. Woo hoo, just the ticket I needed! I asked her if she would like to show these kids how its done, and after a little resistance she agreed. I went to the DJ, asked if he had any disco, and he put on the Bee Gees' More Than A Woman and my fellow chaperone and I showed those kids how it's done. We got the whole floor, and afterwards we had kids, chaperones, and teachers all coming up and asking us to dance and it was nothing but disco the rest of the night. I was so sore I couldn't move the next morning, but it was a blast, and had I been single I could have been a pet for a lot of single lady teachers that night.
The ladies like the guys who can dance. You can be short, tall, fat, skinny, ugly, whatever, but if you can dance that means you got attitude and confidence, and that brings the ladies in. And disco does it better than anything.
