h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

May I take your coat, Ma'am/Sir?

Yes I just popped in to see what sort of balls you had in here....


It's a lovely dance floor!

*goes for a little tippety-tappy dance across the room*

We have tennis balls, footballs, rugby balls....oh, you mean in the ballroom? oh....

Well, we host a high variety of balls here, according to your every desire!

*Head round door* Oh, wow! *Removes shoes. Disappears*
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Weee! Weeeoo! Wahey! Weee! Weee - uhoh!

*CRASH*

Oh bum

*Watches as man in black suit with white wing collar shirt and black tie struggles across stage with huge double bass shaped case. Opens case takes out double bass. Man in brown cow-gown walks on with assortment of music stands, places then in front of the chairs which have been carefully positioned. More black suited men and a few black frocked women saunter onto stage chatting among themselves. Each is carrying an instrument or music. Chatting continues and the tweet of a piccolo is heard followed by the honk of a bassoon. A few violin strings are tweaked and a brash trumpet pierces the air.*
I should go and tell the folks it looks like there's going to be a ball here tonight.
*Leaves overcoat over chair by a good table and heads for bar*

*Watches the band and the caterers setting up the ballroom. She looks into her bag and checks that she has everything to change into her Redneck Doctor Hubby had come home drunk again...so lil asked the childminder to take the children in for the night...it would be worth the extra cost..just to have a decent night out*

C'mon Lil, I've saved us a table right in the thick of it.
*Leads lil, in gorgeous pale blue ballgown to beautifully decorated table with champagne and balloons and confetti everywhere.*
Do you have a dance card. I saw someone in a penguin suit holding them near the entrance, I'll get one for you.

*lil's eyes are sparkling with excitement*

Thank you Vestie...I would be so grateful...this is so like the ballroom when we first met... Maybe I shouldn't have mentioned that? *es even more furiously*

*sticks head around door* Ah, it must be in here...

*walks into the ballroom and removes her coat to reveal a red sparkly strapless number*

Evening all!

*Catches sparkle in Lil's eye and knows we're all going to have a wonderful time. Tracks down blokey with the dance cards, tips him well and takes one back to Lil.*
Look Lil it even has a pencil for you to write down the names fo your dance partners. Save one for me.
*Tall handsome stranger walks up to Lil and asks for the first dance. The band leader taps on the microphone and calls the gathering to silence.*
We like to have as many people on the dance floor as possible so we call the first dance the snowball waltz. We need a volunteer couple to come up and get us started, then when the music stops they must each find a new partner - someone they don't know, and so on.
*A young couple immediatley rush forward to start the proceedings and the music begins*

*follows her in* Nice place you have here...

Lil is in a whirl...the excitement, the music..Oooh! She could feel herself drifting along with the music...but she has lost Vestie..where is he...there he is *she is whirled around again and loses sight of him again* The Music stops shortly and another handsome man presents himself in front of her...and the music begins again, the waltz is making her giddy.

She laughs and throws her head back and she turns and once more sees Vestie standing watching her...smiling with her....Once more she is whirled away......

*Music stops and all the dancers search in the crowd for new partners. an elderly lady with a blue rinse grabs Vestboy by the hand and manhandles him onto the dancefloor*
Be gentle with me! *he pleads. Music strikes up again.*

One two three... one two three... one two three... *trips*

Ow, that was my foot!

Sorry!

Shall we take a break from the dancing for a bit and grab a drinkie?

Not a bad idea!