Why I don't dance for drunk girls
August 7th 2006 23:14
I had posted this in my Hiphop.org.au blog last week and thought I'll post it on here since it's quite relevant.
At my university we have a Hiphop club. It's called D2MG and this year I'm heading it, with a handful of helpers and a lot more work than we can handle. Today we celebrated "Foundation Day", the anniversary of the birth of our fine institution. At this event, like the orientation week at the start of every academic year to welcome the new and welcome back current students, we had a stall set up to recruit members and make a big noise on campus.
Usually when people inquire about our society, we don't get requests to dance for them, as there is someone always on the vinyl, grooving to the music. Today was more quiet, seeing as we had to compete with the blaring Robbie Williams and other Top 40 crap of the main stage only 50 metres away.
2 girls from the college on campus were obviously tipsy (and it wasn't even noon), badgering myself and my boyfriend to dance for them, in exchange for their signatures to our club. After much pestering we both refused and the girls left frustrated, "what's the point of this club if you don't dance when someone asks you to?"
What are we, monkeys who automatically do what you tell us to, just for your own entertainment? Screw you. For a $5 membership I'm not going to leave my post for the amusement of a few drunk girls. It's not worth it. We don't need your money, and you're signing up for the wrong reasons anyway.
I may sound like a priss to some who don't understand because they've never been in a position where someone says, "oh so you can (insert special talent here), can you do it here/show me?" Especially when they're drunk, you just don't wanna waste your time.
Most of the time I'll oblige, to show that I'm not just all talk; I'll engage in a battle if someone challenges me and hell I'm usually the one creating the battle circles at the clubs.
I don't drink alcohol, only in sangria and truffles. Drunkeness is a turn off (ok sometimes it's quite funny) but most of the time is really annoying. Today especially, laying out our vinyl and taping it to the concrete for our dancers was reported to me as being an Occupational Health and Safety Hazard. Um ok. Apparently because majority of people within the area were expected to be trashed, there was a possibility that they will slip and injure themselves on the vinyl and sue us. I was personally liable being the President of the society so of course I had to roll up the mat.
Sucks.
I think only a handful of people who read this post will know where I'm coming from.
At my university we have a Hiphop club. It's called D2MG and this year I'm heading it, with a handful of helpers and a lot more work than we can handle. Today we celebrated "Foundation Day", the anniversary of the birth of our fine institution. At this event, like the orientation week at the start of every academic year to welcome the new and welcome back current students, we had a stall set up to recruit members and make a big noise on campus.
Usually when people inquire about our society, we don't get requests to dance for them, as there is someone always on the vinyl, grooving to the music. Today was more quiet, seeing as we had to compete with the blaring Robbie Williams and other Top 40 crap of the main stage only 50 metres away.
2 girls from the college on campus were obviously tipsy (and it wasn't even noon), badgering myself and my boyfriend to dance for them, in exchange for their signatures to our club. After much pestering we both refused and the girls left frustrated, "what's the point of this club if you don't dance when someone asks you to?"
What are we, monkeys who automatically do what you tell us to, just for your own entertainment? Screw you. For a $5 membership I'm not going to leave my post for the amusement of a few drunk girls. It's not worth it. We don't need your money, and you're signing up for the wrong reasons anyway.
I may sound like a priss to some who don't understand because they've never been in a position where someone says, "oh so you can (insert special talent here), can you do it here/show me?" Especially when they're drunk, you just don't wanna waste your time.
Most of the time I'll oblige, to show that I'm not just all talk; I'll engage in a battle if someone challenges me and hell I'm usually the one creating the battle circles at the clubs.
I don't drink alcohol, only in sangria and truffles. Drunkeness is a turn off (ok sometimes it's quite funny) but most of the time is really annoying. Today especially, laying out our vinyl and taping it to the concrete for our dancers was reported to me as being an Occupational Health and Safety Hazard. Um ok. Apparently because majority of people within the area were expected to be trashed, there was a possibility that they will slip and injure themselves on the vinyl and sue us. I was personally liable being the President of the society so of course I had to roll up the mat.
Sucks.
I think only a handful of people who read this post will know where I'm coming from.
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Comment by Just krunk it
My friend and I used to go off in nightclubs - not in Sydney - but overseas. People used to come up to us and ask if we were on drugs. Of course, we got offended because neither of us has ever touched that shit. Plus, if you were doin' drugs, can you honestly last all night, walk straight without trippin and actually look normal (and I mean not the pasty alien appearances that most people on drugs are associated with)? I don't think so. People that love to dance and enjoy krunkin it on the dancefloor don't have to be drunk or on drugs to be enjoyin themselves. We dance because it's an adrenaline rush - a form of release/escapism and as means to stand out as individuals. We don't dance for societal approval but more about personal satisfaction.
Those drunk chicks you encountered are smart-ass hobos with no clear direction in life. Anyone who gets drunk before noon must be psychologically f*cked up. No wonder there are too many loonies running around Sydney.
Comment by Trina
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