Occasionally, I get asked to dance by really great dancers (aka, "salsa ninjas") and it's a rare opportunity for me to raise the bar on my salsa. I have to try and focus on not getting nervous and doing something stupid like punching said person in the face (it's a dangerous salsa world and besides getting pillaged in the foot by spiked heels, sometimes people get whacked in the face...by me). It's a threat I'm willing to live with, but would warn others about.

Anyway, one particular great dancer happens to be blind in one eye. He's a wonderful dancer and a great spirit and his eye is not something that seems to hinder him in the least bit. So one night he asked me to dance and in my excitement I executed the faux paus of injuring him in the most insulting way (so ashamed)...I poked him in his blind eye...! Of all the things I could do (step on him, hit in the face with my flailing arm, spiral out of control), it had to be this very creepy unconscious Freudian way of being very rude.

Talk about sabotage...

Just for today, I'm aware of my salsa sabotage.