Ok, have 3 hours to gage your opinions. Here's the scenario:
My friend and I share a Friday performance at a local (mediterranean/Turkish) restaurant. About 2 months ago a new waiter started. After my performance he came up and started chatting, and said that next week I should invite him to dance. Why not, thought I, it goes almost like routine usually - you invite the waiter to dance, he does a shoulder shimmy or two and then feigns embarrassment and runs off. The customers normally love it.
Except that next week, as soon as my music starts, he whips off his shirt, ties on a hipscarf and follows me around gettting in my way, doing some strange monkey dance, interspersed with crotch gyrating, but taking himself very seriously. He's continually blocking my path and for my first dance he was lucky not to have got in the way of my cane! The customers didn't know where to look or what was going on.
He now considers himself part of the act! He even dared complain about the music I was bringing in! I was so flabberghasted I didn't know what to say! he's driving my partner up the wall on her weeks too, and we want him to stop. Trouble is the waiter doesn't seem to get our subtle hints (ie, "can you please stop?") and owner of the restaurant is a sleazy jerk and I'm not inclined to ask favours of him. I show up, dance, get paid and leave.
So, war it is! the plan of attack for tonight is as follows: I am departing from the regular favourites (a lot of Egyptian pop with the occasional oriental) in favour of something he will hate, it's a full set of Natacha Atlas's darker, moodier songs ("I put a spell on you" to name one) with lots of changes that you have to know are there or you'll trip all over the song. If that's not enough, when he dances, I will stop instantly with my arms crossed and an expression of "well come on and DANCE then, I'm waiting!" and if he still continues, I'll even pull up a seat and wait for him to finish.
Other things we thought of were lots of raks asaya & sword dancing. Maybe we could accidentally skewer him
Anything else you can think of to get him to take the hint? And how do you rate my chances of success?!
My friend and I share a Friday performance at a local (mediterranean/Turkish) restaurant. About 2 months ago a new waiter started. After my performance he came up and started chatting, and said that next week I should invite him to dance. Why not, thought I, it goes almost like routine usually - you invite the waiter to dance, he does a shoulder shimmy or two and then feigns embarrassment and runs off. The customers normally love it.
Except that next week, as soon as my music starts, he whips off his shirt, ties on a hipscarf and follows me around gettting in my way, doing some strange monkey dance, interspersed with crotch gyrating, but taking himself very seriously. He's continually blocking my path and for my first dance he was lucky not to have got in the way of my cane! The customers didn't know where to look or what was going on.
He now considers himself part of the act! He even dared complain about the music I was bringing in! I was so flabberghasted I didn't know what to say! he's driving my partner up the wall on her weeks too, and we want him to stop. Trouble is the waiter doesn't seem to get our subtle hints (ie, "can you please stop?") and owner of the restaurant is a sleazy jerk and I'm not inclined to ask favours of him. I show up, dance, get paid and leave.
So, war it is! the plan of attack for tonight is as follows: I am departing from the regular favourites (a lot of Egyptian pop with the occasional oriental) in favour of something he will hate, it's a full set of Natacha Atlas's darker, moodier songs ("I put a spell on you" to name one) with lots of changes that you have to know are there or you'll trip all over the song. If that's not enough, when he dances, I will stop instantly with my arms crossed and an expression of "well come on and DANCE then, I'm waiting!" and if he still continues, I'll even pull up a seat and wait for him to finish.
Other things we thought of were lots of raks asaya & sword dancing. Maybe we could accidentally skewer him
Anything else you can think of to get him to take the hint? And how do you rate my chances of success?!
