Weddings and Wordings
We attended the wedding of our friends Mike and Suzanne tonight, and had a great time. Congratulations and best wishes to both of them.
At the reception we got a reminder of how careful it pays to be with the language. You may be familiar with the wedding-DJ game of having people at a table pass a knight or a spoon or something from the table around while playing music, and then whoever has the item when the music stop has to perform some sort of task. Not everyone knows the game, however, so it’s important to explain the rules.
Well, the DJ instructed us as follows: “Everyone pick up an item at the table and pass it around.” So at our table eight utensils started making their way around, as we all looked at each other going :I don’t think this is how it’s supposed to work.” We had pared our way down to one spoon when the music stopped – and I got left holding the spoon – and the DJ announced that several tables had been passing multiple items around. (Including a candle in one case. It may be better to play this game earlier in the evening if there’s going to be an open bar.) So I was spared whatever task was assigned that round. Maybe next time preprinted diagrams are in order.
About Dave Thomer
Born and raised in Philadelphia. Studied philosophy at Fordham University in the Bronx, where I made many great friends and met my wonderful wife. We moved back to Philadelphia, where I studied philosophy some more and became a teacher. Online and off, I'm looking for ways that we can be better citizens and build stronger communities.