The Strut That Would Not Die

[duck2ducks]

Earlier this week, as I walked into the theater for that evening's performance of The Tragedy of He-Manlet, Prince of Eternia (for which I'm running lights & sound), the bartender - drinking at the theater's bar, her shift not yet begun - looked over at me and grinned, "I like your swagger."

Oh. Geez. That."Thanks," I mumbled, feeling a self-

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[mathuaerknedam]

You rock!

Just when I was contemplating a life without LJ, you reappear.

[lcohen]

but that isn't how you walk when you are walking next to another person. so the way to turn it off is to pretend that you're trying to match someone else's stride, perhaps?

[duck2ducks]

Well, I suppose the non-glib way of expressing it is that (obviously) it does turn off; if I'm thinking about my walk, or it's modified by walking with someone etc., it doesn't turn "on".

It's more that when I'm walking by myself, and lost in thought, it's stupidly easy for that to start happening without my intent. ;)