Tuesday, October 6, 2009

10 Signs You Have a Salsa Crush

In case you don't read my other blog (and you should. It's at kluelessinseattle.blogspot.com), I will warn you that the number "10" in the title serves just as an attention grabber and I rarely ever actually do 10 anything. It's always either less or more. So don't be surprised.

A salsa crush is different from a regular, romantic crush in the sense that you have a strong inclination to want to brush it off, and you know way too well that it can't lead to anything serious (except maybe a serious heartbreak when things go too far.) But here are some signs that you might, perhaps, have one:

1. Your first instinct upon entry into a venue is to look around and locate that person.

2. Once you locate your crush, you walk past the spot where they are and give them a little longer than normal "hello" hug.

3. You can't seem to stop smiling while you're dancing with your crush. Even if all they can do is a basic cross-body-lead, you think their dancing is the best thing that's ever happened to you!

4. If you spot them dancing a close bachata with someone else, a cloud suddenly envelops your otherwise perfectly good night. You feel an insatiable urge to cut in and break the madness off.

5. Your kiss good bye "accidentally" ends up on the lips instead of a cheek.

6. Your favorite moves with your crush are all the ones that require close contact. If anyone else tried it on you, they'd be officially dubbed creepy.

7. You consider your greatest achievement on the floor to be that time you were successful at making them smile.

8. You think about them outside of Salsa.

9. You're not that close, but you have their biography memorized down to the dot. Girlfriends, siblings and grandparents names, pets, venues they usually attend, favorite food, cell phone number... etc.

10. You constantly check if there's anything new on their social networking site, and stay signed in on skype/icq/fb/aol/msn chat all day, hoping that they will contact you first.

11. When you see them at a place where they weren't expected, your happiness is translated into jumping them at the door and hugging until they're too out of breath to try and get you off.

12. You check your phone every couple of seconds to see if there's a text message from them.
When you do get a text message from them, you wait a half an hour before responding so they won't think that you're checking your phone every couple of seconds to see if there's a text message from them.

13. Their beer belly looks good to you. You haven't noticed yet that they're missing a couple of teeth.

14. You want to dance all your favorite songs with only that person. They have the last dance pretty much reserved.


A special thanks to Anna and Frances for their contributions that made this post happen!

4 comments:

  1. oh, I definitely have a salsa crush (or 2?) :)

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  2. This one is my favorite :
    13. Their beer belly looks good to you. You haven't noticed yet that they're missing a couple of teeth.
    LOL

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  3. Haha! As always, it's a pleasure reading your posts. This one makes me smile. Really... how often does #5 happen?

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  4. This is great! #4 and #13 for sure

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