Hanging with the oldies can be surprisingly fun!!

Though it was a couple of days ago, I feel the need to give a proper account of the event I attended on Friday night.
This entire thing came about because on New Year’s Eve of ’06, my mum’s cousin’s wife (but we call her my auntie, just coz it’s easier) had a seizure on the beach. Obviously it was extremely distressing; the short version of this story is that it was discovered she had a brain tumor. Now, she’s had two lots of surgery, and we are pretty sure she is well on the mend. Mum’s cousin (her husband – again, I shall refer to him as my uncle because it is easier) and some of his friends have since began to call themselves the Blackwood 8 and have now organized a fundraiser this year and last year to raise money for cancer research. This function was complete with an auction, selling things like signed and framed soccer tops, a signed Bono electric guitar and a handmade guitar signed by iconic 70’s band Daddy Cool, and a silent auction, raffle prizes and lots of booze, and my favourite, dancing to a band playing 70’s and 80’s music! I went to last year’s function, without my mum and dad, because they were overseas at the time, but this year I had them with me. It was actually extremely fun, I managed to scam Mum into letting me have her glass of champagne (:D), and I talked to lots of random older people who knew who I was but I had no clue who they were.
One rather amusing thing that happened was being introduced to an extremely camp guy who as it turned out knew my uncle from church as a kid. He introduced us to his cousin, who was even more camp than he was (I shall refer to him as Scarf Guy, because that’s what he was wearing), and for some reason, my mum elected to embarrass me by bringing up the fact that I think David Tennant is rather cute to these guys. They thought this was very funny, and Scarf Guy said “Oh, he’s hot!” and then expressed his opinion that David Tennant is gay!!!!!! OMG!!!! I found this very difficult to believe, as did my fellow outlaws when I told them. According to Mum and Dad though, if anyone knew if he was gay or not, they would! Does anyone have any thoughts? Feel free to comment!
Anyway, so much later on, the band began to play ‘The Nutbush’ so of course, I had to go and dance! Mum was too busy trying to find out if she’d won anything, so I went to find my dad, to drag him off to dance with me. Despite my best efforts, he refused to learn the Nutbush, claiming “The Nutbush was invented for people who don’t know how to dance!” to which I responded “then you should have no problems with it, Dad!” but he didn’t listen. I danced with my auntie instead (a different one) and then dad finally agreed to dance. Watching my dad dance is extremely amusing, as he simply ‘bangs his head’ to the music, and doesn’t exactly do it well. I know I’m not a good dancer either, but I’m very enthusiastic! But so is Dad – I applaud him for trying *claps*
Anyway, ‘Throw Your Arms Around Me came on, and all these couples started dancing, and I was dancing with Dad instead. While we were dancing, the hand that wasn’t holding his got grabbed randomly by some guy who was dancing with his wife. I think he was a bit drunk, but it was very weird. Then Mum turned up and we danced as a family, which was fun. As a final song, they played ‘It’s A Long Way to the Top’ (awesome song!) and my uncle tried to teach Dad the Sprinkler move and my mum took her heels off and danced like a crazy person with Scarf Guy, including with his scarf!!!! It would have looked a bit suss if he wasn’t gay!!!!
It was an extremely fun, if tiring night! They raised a lot of money, and my mum was happy coz she got some manufactured diamond earrings and four tickets to see John Mellencamp when he comes next month. I didn’t get home until after 1am, but it was well worth it! And it’s all for cancer research!

xoxo Di