I guess frequency of the request plays into it too. If it's a one-off, I grin and bear it - it's just 15 minutes out of my life. And frankly, who you square up with in an 8 person square bears little relationship to the fun of the square as a whole - unless the person is a really bad dancer.
Now if this is someone trying to hit on you, or someone who persistently makes a bee-line for you, then other remedies come to mind, including "I'd rather not - we don't seem to dance well together". Of course, as you get older, you get more comfortable being fairly blunt with people. I'd have had a much harder time with this in my 20's.
The other really difficult moment is - what do you do if the worst two dancers in the hall join a square you've already joined? Since you can't leave the square (that would be rude) you put it down to Karma getting you back for standing on that bug this morning...
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Date: 2006-02-24 04:53 pm (UTC)Now if this is someone trying to hit on you, or someone who persistently makes a bee-line for you, then other remedies come to mind, including "I'd rather not - we don't seem to dance well together". Of course, as you get older, you get more comfortable being fairly blunt with people. I'd have had a much harder time with this in my 20's.
The other really difficult moment is - what do you do if the worst two dancers in the hall join a square you've already joined? Since you can't leave the square (that would be rude) you put it down to Karma getting you back for standing on that bug this morning...