Thanks to Lucy and Frank, via Gerda for this one:
You know you’re addicted when:
- You keep a pair of dance shoes in your car.
- You’ve sold or moved most of your furniture to give yourself practice space.
- You make sure you never run out of breath mints or chewing gum.
- You copied all your tango music to your office computer and that’s all you listen to.
- You’ve danced with one of the biggies and survived.
- You own a tango t-shirt and wear it in public – constantly.
- You go through withdrawal without at least one tango-high per week.
- Your descriptions of tango have shifted from “unbounded enthusiasm” to “you wouldn’t understand….
- Your friends are secretly plotting to kidnap you for a week of serious deprogramming.
- You know who Carlos Gardel is.
- You wish you’d paid more attention to high school Spanish class.
- You cross state lines to tango.
- You listen to tango music when you’re not at a practica or milonga.
- You bring your ankles and knees together all the time, even in the elevator.
- You plan the rest of your social life so it doesn’t conflict with tango nights.
- You own a bootleg copy of Tango Bar.
- Your wardrobe is predominantly black.
- Ocho is more than just a number.
- Your fantasy travel destination is Buenos Aires.
- You are unable to schedule major surgery without compromising tango commitments.
- You now view the world in terms of people who tango and those unfortunate souls who don’t
- You have to work hard to maintain non-tango friendships (if you have any left).
- You’ve been dancing for a year and still don’t get bored talking tango.
- You have developed the ability to turn any conversation to tango within 2 minutes.
- You no longer have parties at your house; you host milongas.
- Before traveling, you check out the net for tango events in that area.
- You are willing to spend twice as much time driving to a milonga as you actually dance.
- You automatically do something Tango-ish whenever you navigate through a crowd.
- Your computer passwords at work are always related to tango.
- Your ear has been trained to recognize the tango possibilities in all forms of music.
- When you and another contractor are working of a move to Calo two stories above the ground, tool belts clinking.
- Your shopping cart often substitutes as your dance partner.
- You have become nocturnal.
- Your interest in shoes can easily be mistaken for a fetish.
- You constantly have bruises on your legs and feet.
- You dream about dancing with Pablo Veron.
- Tango Hugs … mmmmmm
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At 17:29 on Wednesday, 22 June 2005 Nicci said:
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