You Might Be a Lindy Hopper If...
- you go Lindy Hopping on the way to a Lindy Hop lesson
- your heart beats to the rhythm: Thump, thump, thump-de-dump, thump, thump, thump-de-dump
- you think that the next number after eight is one
- you know what "real men let go on five" means
- you notice your feet moving when you are bored... you then realize they are practicing a new break move for the Shim Sham
- you no longer notice strange looks you get as you practice the Shim Sham or Jitterbug Stroll in the halls of your dorm, grocery store, etc
- you can't watch other forms of dance without trying to identify moves that could be turned into swing steps or aerials
- you go through withdrawals when your dance partner leaves for two days; you CAN'T WAIT to show him/her the new moves you've thought up
- you wake up in the morning frantically trying to remember the dream you had, because you clearly remember yourself doing a smooth move (that you don't yet know) in your sleep
- when you try to fall asleep, you no longer count sheep... you choreograph your next Friday night!
- you use the term "swinger" to describe yourself and your friends
- you've been called a 'Lindy Whore'... and it made you smile :)
- you bring your own CDs when you go to a social event "just in case"
- you told a beautiful young lady/guy who asked you out, "No, wait, I'm dancing that night"
- your friends no longer bother to ask you what you're doing on Friday, Saturday, Sunday nights
- your newest line is "Hey, are those new shoes?" and you really DO want to talk about shoes
- when you meet a new person you decide to go out with him/her based on if he/she can dance or how hard it would be to teach him/her
- you suffer some major bodily harm and still want to dance
- you don't wear your dance shoes off the dance floor
- you can tell how long someone has been dancing by the shoes they are wearing
- you shake your head at girls who wear HEELS to go out at night
- someone says "nice whip" and they are not complementing your dungeon accessories
- if someone says 'tandem', they're not talking about a bicycle
- when the band is playing a slow song you Lindy to it in double-time
- you routinely bring a change of clothes, water, and a towel or two for a night out (in addition to an ankle brace)
- you drink eight glasses of water a night, and only need to use the restroom for hand-washing
- you stop caring if your partner thinks it's unattractive that your shirt is soaked through with sweat
- East Coast bores you
- you don't need a sweater in January when you go out for the night
- you eat your main meal of the day at one in the morning
- the first question you ask a girl is "How much do you weigh?"... 'cause when you pick up girls, you PICK UP girls
- you frequently show up to school or work with a limp and/or bruises
- you no longer buy clothes you can't dance in
- your whole wardrobe costs less than your first dancing shoes (thank goodness for second-hand stores)
- when someone says vintage, they're not talking about wine
- you pray that forties clothing never comes back into style so you can still afford it
- you have black and white feet
- more than one person can fit in your pants
- you decide not to go on a trip because its the same weekend as a Lindy Exchange. In fact, you would schedule business trips around dance nights
- you spend every long weekend at Lindy camps, workshops, or competitions
- when deciding what college to go to, your deciding factor was whether or not the school had a Swing Club
- while working as a tour guide for your school, you realize that you only try to recruit the prospective students who already know how to swing
- your roommate (who didn't know what swing was two months ago) has gone from listening to rap to downloading Benny Goodman under his/her own free will
- you have had complaints on the residence floor below about the constant 'thump thump thump-de-dump' at all hours
- you swerve all over the road listening to the oldies station
- you envy the dance floors of clubs in other cities
- instead of studying for your exams or doing your work, you spend the day surfing swing sites on the internet
- you spend non-club nights studying old footage of Whitey's Lindy Hoppers
- you saw Swing Kids five times whether you liked it or not
- you bought a copy of Disney's "The Jungle Book" to see the animated Lindy dancing monkeys
- you are a 'swinger' with multiple partners who likes to 'shag' several times a night and enjoys 'messin' around' during breaks... and you're still a a virgin!
You Might be a Baby Lindy Hopper If...
- you greet all potential dance partners with a shy, "I'm not really very good" just so they'll be pleasantly surprised
- you still feel embarrassed about sweating in public
- you really, really want to buy a pair of Bleyer's... but then people will expect you to be good... you buy them anyways
- you go to a "beginner" workshop and one of the other students says, "But you're not a beginner-- I saw you at the club!"
- you wear short twirly skirts, so that people will think, "Ooh, nice legs..." instead of "Eww... bad dancing..."
- men try to teach you to swivel, swivel and you actually figure out how to swivel, swivel
- you discover that a vacuum has the perfect follow frame
- you practice "seven-and-eights" with the sides of doors
- you think about swing whenever you're not actually doing it