Two Steppin in Krogers

I was excited and smiling ear to ear needless to say – I did not realize it was bubbling out through my feet.

My husband and I  (before children) used to dance three days a week at a dance studio. On weekends we would hit various country bars to boot scoot-in boogie.We loved it – it is the best exercise without feeling like your actually exercising.

Our dance team would go to Nashville Tennessee to the "wild horse saloon" once a month and show our stuff on that famous dance floor.

I had a extra bounce to my step as I walked into the store – thinking to myself what a fun year this has been watching a book come out of me. I had worked in the same hospital for 22 years and had never stopped to really process what all I had learned and how I had changed as a person until I began writing it down.

I had my shopping cart adding items as I smiled my way through the store – not really paying any attention to the fact the country music that played over head in the story was vibrating my feet. I was two stepping as I pushed my cart. When I stopped I would slide to the left and slide to the right to pick out the item – then two step forward.

I had several people smile at me and I nodded my head in a "hello" as I shuffled…quick quick sloooooow slooooow…quick quick slooooow slooooow…. down the isles.

I was on the bean and soup isle when someone tapped me on the shoulder and said, "Can I have this dance?" It was a 70-ish year old man who held his hands in two stepping formation.I laughed at his wife who was smiling behind him and I said, "I would love too!". He was a smooth dancer…a very seasoned country Texas two step. We shuffled all the way to the soups and back stepped with a spin to the black eyed peas. He tipped his invisible hat – we laughed and I told him thank you for making my day. He and his wife pushed their buggy out of site and I stood there laughing with this huge grin.