Dancing is the freedom of expression and what better place to see it and feel it than on a dancefloor, but there seems to be another language going on other than the body’s own musical expression.
It’s the two-step text. The two-step text is when you’re standing and only moving your feet, one at a time, side to side while holding a small device in your hand with a bright neon light emanating a glow upon your face. Yes it’s the cellphone, crack berry, iPhone, SPARK Music Box, Fastap, your overall personal digital PCS.
I know you’ve seen it, and I know you’ve done it. I have. Why on earth do we do this? We’re at a club with our friends and we’re supposed to be enjoying their company, the music and dancing, not texting to someone who’s not there, or worse yet actually in the club!
Now, don’t get me wrong I know it’s great for finding your friend(s) in the club, or when you arrive to locate their whereabouts, or if you’re the DJ and are going to be late or want to know what the crowd is like that’s its all good. It’s also helpful if you have kids and may need to keep in touch with them, but for any other reason the question is why?
It’s really funny seeing two people side by side doing the two-step text, each holding their cells and texting madly while even smiling at themselves as they read or text. Yet their friend, who they came with, is right beside them doing the same thing. Can they not talk to each other? Take a few hours out and spend some time with each other?
Is it seriously important to text at 3am in the middle of the dancefloor?
It’s now the dancefloor language plain and simple. I’ve stood at the bar with a friend beside me as we Bluetooth and sync to exchange info. I mean do we need to do this right there at this moment when all this other action which we really came to experience is going on around us?
Because of this avid use of cellphones we tend to place them on the bar while ordering a drink, lay them on top of the toilet, or the counter in the washroom while we wash our hands and touch- up, how many cellphones are lost due to this? I’ve done it, you’ve done it and surely someone you know has.
The smart ones don’t bring their cells with them when going to a club, but see I feel I can’t just in case of an emergency. And after all it now costs 50¢ to make a local call from a public phone (and of course at that very moment you don’t have change!). Never mind there are barely any pay phones around Toronto unless you’re in a sketchy part of town.
And never ask someone to borrow their cell, this is poor cell etiquette. I never let anyone use mine unless they’re from my crew.
It’s the latest drug, it’s a digital addiction. Once you pull it out and hit a key while clubbing you’ll always check it again, again and again. Come on don’t tell me you haven’t?
You’re guilty of it, I’m guilty of it, but when you think about it, it just proves how more and more some of us are becoming anti-social.
Personally, I like to enjoy the company I keep and take pleasure in the music I came to hear. The texting, while I’m as guilty as the next, I try to keep to a minimum.
