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You Might Be an Irish Dancer, if…

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Kara, Con't.
401. You write "Irish dancer" on a form and you put in quotations after it "(yes, like riverdance, I can riverdance!)" just so other people will understand.
402. You take that cute boy from dance class to prom with you (yes, I have done this!).
403. The only people you talk about are from dance class ("who is that again?!....ooh dance class right?")
404. You have bruised someone’s hand because they got in the way of your lead, that'll teach them.
405. People don’t understand that you have serious muscle in your legs, so you have to prove it to them.
406. Your dog (or pet) is frightened of your dancing (especially hardshoe!).
407. You listen to your "Irish Dance Mix" in your car.
408. You can pick up any dance that someone yells very quickly, you do it all the time in class.
409. You have to stay after school to make up gym days, you bring your hardshoes along to practice.
410. You negotiate with your gym teacher to let you practice instead of playing badmitton.

411. You get sad when dance is cancelled.
412. You know all your dance teacher’s bad jokes, and then you tell them to your friends.
413. Your dance teacher has nicknames for everyone in the class.
414. You like any Irish band.
415. You come home from practice dead tired, and you put on music to practice more.

Miscellaneous
416. You’ve started a club at school called "Finger Feis." Amanda
417. You read #416 and thought it was a cool idea - in fact, you might start one up yourself. Complete with finger-people costuming. Ashe
418. During band class, when you are playing FRANDOLE you can actually hear where the part that sounds like Riverdance is (i.e measures 28-32). Kate
419. You have watched the Robin Hood scene of Shrek so often that you know all the moves, but haven’t seen any of the rest of the movie. You then download the music of that part of the movie, burn it to a CD-R and teach the rest of your dance class. (Not that we have done that. *looks left, looks right, runs away* A friend of mine actually did do that and I couldn’t resist telling you.) Céara

Monica
420. You see an advertisement for a Boston Celtics game, and scream, 'It’s CELTIC, not Sel-tic!!'.
421. You wear your poodle socks to school on a regular basis.
422. You have drawn your school’s knotwork on your ankle (or arm) with a permanent marker." (Not that I’ve done that, oh, no...never...)
423. You bring your hardshoes to school with you on a regular basis and dance at random times during the day.
424. You lend your numerous Irish dancing tapes to the 'non-cultured', just to spread the joy.
425. You can start a sentence with the words, 'Well, my wig supplier....'
426. Your teacher actually comes to one of your dancing events, and at school the next day, spends the entire class period telling everyone how wonderful you are, asks you to dance for the class, etc.
427. Leaves are to a tree what Soft Spikes are to your head.
428. You get in trouble at school for looking at Irish Dancing Magazine, and when your teacher takes it up and starts to read it silently, she looks at you and says, 'You can do this Riverdance stuff?'
429. You stay late after class teaching your teacher the three’s and seven's. She then proceeds to show them to the class the following day.
430. When someone asks for glue, you grab your sock glue and hand it to them. When they look at you like you're a nut, you simply smile.

431. When someone threatens to hurt you, you pull up your pant leg and say, 'You sure you want to hurt me?'
432. You know more about shin splints than the school nurse.
433. You're on vacation with your choir, and you walk into a hotel and automatically, your feet start twitching, your ears start listening for accordion, and your eyes start roaming, looking for curled heads and flashy dresses.
434. You walk into a hotel, and say, 'This is where (insert feis here) was held!!!', and your fellow choir members back away slowly.
435. Your friends tell you they’ve seen an Irish dancer. You ask them what school they were from, expecting to hear a dance school, and they say, "She’s from some middle school.". You take a minute to register that, thinking, 'That’s not a dance school...'.
436. When someone asks you what school you're from, you automatically reply with the name of your dance school.

Steffani
437. You try to teach your siblings a two hand and make them perform while setting the table.
438. After every dance class you tell your parents, "Oh! That was a good class!" instead of the details.
439. You know the URL of every website that has anything to do with Irish dance.
440. Your parents constantly yell at you during dinner: "Stop with the tapping feet!"
441. Your baby sister’s favorite show is "Feet of Flames."
442. Your room is in a flutter of dance photos, shamrocks, and dance shoes.
443. Your tosies are fidgety when they can’t do toe stands.
444. After you practice in your hard shoes, you mistakingly try to do toe stands in bare feet.
445. You wear your dance sneakers to school.

Kate
446. You freak out the day before a feis, by practicing every spare moment.
447. You see no reason to shave your legs: you always have socks hiked up to your knees!
448. When on a class trip, your friends hear a bagpipe and your friends beg you to dance. (True story.)
449. Your teachers know how to dance your reel.
450. Your gym uniform calls for long white socks - so you wear poodle socks!

Christy
451. Your friends are thoroughly perplexed when you tell them you were shopping for a "Tupperware for your hair". And you enjoy the look on their face as they try to make sense of what you just said!
452. You eagerly await the posting of the NAFC schedule in November so that you can promptly create your "feis schedule" for the year and pencil them in on your calendar.
453. You find out that the feis you’ve been waiting for hit its cap in only a week and promptly search for another feis to attend that weekend.
454. The next year, your feis schedule includes "alternate feiseanna" to attend in case of missing the entry cap.
455. You’ve missed your best friend's, cousin's, etc. wedding because of a feis. (What were they thinking!?)
456. You tell a coworker that there’s no room to give a mini-performance of your dancing... three days later, you mindlessly practice a treble jig.
457. You wonder if work will notice the missing plywood from the construction area walls.
458. Everyone at work has asked you why you are standing en pointe. When a new person begins working, they can answer for you.
459. After finding out that you Irish dance, they say they know someone who also dances. You ask what color their school dress is because you doubt they know the name of the dance school!

Becky
460. When *any* catalogue shows up in the mail you immediately look for the Celtic/Irish section (even in hardware catalogues).
461. You always pick the figurine with the green birthstone whether it’s your birthstone or not.
462. The minute you hear words "international" and "show" put together you wonder if they need an Irish dancer.
463. The minute you hear that a rock/pop band has an accordion you immediately like them, whether you’ve heard them or not.
464. You think nothing of showing up at work in curlers and inform your employer beforehand only as an afterthought.
465. You’ve started up Irish dance clubs of one person and an advisor for the sole purpose of getting free practise space at your school. (shhh... don’t tell...)
466. You use any excuse to get up and dance (i.e. oh! you need a performer for a dinner?, Hey! I think that’s a reel, I'll test it out!, or "my leg’s sore" "why?" "Oh, because I was doing this" (and precede to do a jig)).
467. When the store you were working at closed, you thought nothing of asking for the 2' X 6' particle board pieces that were being used for stock shelves (and you were planning this move even before you knew the store was closing).
468. You're doing a 60-mile walk during three days (think tired everythings) but you heard a rumor of a talent show on the second day after that day’s miles (23) and all you can think is "I should pack my ghillies and a tape."
469. You spend $75 on shoes that aren’t even a designer brand.
470. You spend hours debating fabric choices, and this is only for the mobcap for over your curlers.
471. You happily tell your family that your jeans no longer fit, but not because your waist is too big, but your calves have gotten too large to fit through comfortably.
472. You show up at an awards banquet in ghillies because nothing else would go with your dress. And, of course, you're totally prepared when they play "Cotton Eyed Joe" at the post-banquet dance.

Ashe
473. Your friends hope they'll play "Cotton-Eyed Joe", "Come On Eileen" or something like Irish-y at dances and banquets just so you can dance.

Chelsea
474. Your three-year-old sister knows three reel steps two jig steps, her hop 123's, and her sevens and is already begging to go to dance class.
475. Every time you leave the house your siblings think you're going to dance. (and most of the time it’s true!)
476. Your one year old brother claps, stands up, and rocks back and forth every time he hears irish music.
477. Your parents quiz you in the car by turning on some irish music and asking you what dance you would do to it and what time signature it is and marvel at you when you can answer every time.
478. You constantly have criss-cross marks on your feet from your ghillies.
479. Your Christmas list looks something like this:

480.You don’t like to go out of town, unless you're going to a Feis, because you don’t want to miss dance.
481.You’ve cried because you had to miss a feis.
482.When your mom asks you what you want to study next you tell her you want to study the history of irish dance costumes. You’ve already studied the history of Irish Dance, all about Ireland, Irish music, etc... (This only goes for Homeschoolers)
483. Most of your friends are at dance. And if they aren't, they are really good friends to listen to you constantly talking about dance!

Chelsea W.
From a beginner’s point of view:
484. You threaten people with hardshoes even though you don’t have them.
485. Your mother is already telling you to not dance around the house.
486. You play the violin, have heard the girls on Feet of Flames, and have a burning desire to play like them.
487. You went so far as to actually get the sheet music to the Lord of the Dance theme so that you could try to learn it. That one part where it gets all hard sounding and minor is really difficult.
488. You're going to college in a town that’s 4 hours away from your hometown. You hear that Gaelforce is coming to your town, and throw away your free ride to NASCAR weekend at Texas Motor Speedway to go see them for $30 instead.
489. In preparation for Gaelforce, you have nothing creative for them to autograph, so you go to Hobby Lobby and buy discounted shamrock/Saint Patrick’s Day material, along with green glitter paint, and white spray paint to dull the green so that the green glitter will show. On this cloth, you write various things such as, "Will Reel 4 Food", "Kiss me I’m an Irish dancer" and "Irish by choice".
490. Your friend is the one teaching you Irish dance, and you say, "Hey I think I learned bird leaps. Is this right?" So you do one, and your friend freaks out, "You just did a bird leap! But you need to lean back more." So, you continue bird leaping until you get it right.

491. The people next door to you in the dorm constantly blare their rap music. So, in combat, you blare your Celtic music.
492. You’ve seen people give your dorm room horrified looks at the music that’s coming out of it as you're walking back to it from the water fountain.
493. Just to completely confuse your college algebra teacher, you write random Gaelic terms on the board before class. My teacher really had no idea what the heck "rince" was...
494. Your response to something or someone you don’t understand is "Oireachtas" in hopes that it'll confuse whoever pulled the confusing trick on you.
495. You already know how awful Michael Flatley is, but your best friend’s boyfriend is totally Irish and absolutely idolizes him. So, in trying to be nice, you simply say, "Well, he’s a good flute player." (Michael Flatley is a good dancer, don’t get me wrong... He’s just really good at his own creation.)
496. You want to go to Bennigen’s again just to ask them about the button they wear that says "We ID." You want to ask them, "Do you really ID?" "Yes..." "Let’s see then!"
497. You start jigging and barely even realize it.
498. Your friend who is also your dance teacher is considered a clone of you by your best friends. (Chelsea 1 and Chelsea 2, let’s go! As my friend and I did a two hand down to the door at the mall.)
499. You're referred to as "Leprechaun" at work.
500. You’ve already taken to going to dance stores just to watch the looks on people’s faces when you ask for ghillies and hardshoes. You were most bewildered to be presented with some very odd looking ghillies indeed at a dance store one time. One of the store owners asked, "Is this for Irish dance?" Your reply was, "No, this is not for Irish; it’s for Highland." "Oh, well, we’ve sold plenty of those for Irish." "That doesn’t look like any Antonio Pacelli I’ve ever seen."

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