Jack spotted Jill at the party.Jack spotted Jill at the party. She had a bland face, medium small breasts, and fair skin. He would have called it pale, but he was feeling charitable. He decided that she was just ugly enough that she would probably be desperate, and just good look- ing enough that she would probably be an OK lay. "Hey babe, want to dance?" he asked, in a melancholy voice. "Sure, why not?" she said. So they began to dance. She wasn't a great dancer. She just kind of kept shaking her arms and legs the same way, over and over again. After a while, he felt the way you feel after you've seen the same commercial too many times, that feeling of "Oh, I know what is going to happen next, but my brain is too dead to care." Ho hum, he thought. But he knew that you had to dance at least three dances with a woman before you could seduce her, so he tolerated it. The second dance was even more boring than the first. The music switched from rock to reggae, but her dancing hardly changed at all. He started counting beer cups in people hands, while he danced, just for something to do. He had counted 112 by the time the dance ended. "Great, only one more dance to go, he thought." The next dance was a slow dance. A lot of parties never put on slow dances, but this one did, and Jack was very happy, because he didn't think he could take a third fast dance with her monoto- nous rhythm. He looked at her, when the slow music started, wondering if she was ready for slow dancing. She had that same look in her eyes that he had seen hundreds of times before, that look that says "Go ahead, put your arms around me and start dancing. Have I got something better to do?" So he did. And her rhythm was defi- nitely different this time, finally. Now, she basically just stood there, kind of wobbling back and forth a little. And now he realized how much he hated slow songs, because they just went on, and on. It was a slow love song, just like so many love songs he had heard before. This one was worse than many, howev- er, because it was one of the ones that was currently getting too much play on the radio. |