Context: one time I was at a Girl Scout badge workshop†and they asked us to invent a dance. The other kids were awkward and shy about it, but I embraced my assignment and decided to jump up and down while flapping my arms. I called it the birdie hop.
(The other kids looked at me like I'd grown another head. I did not care.)
For quite a while afterward, whenever the topic of knowing how to dance came up, either I or Mom (who was a Girl Scout leader and had witnessed this) would say "well, [I/she] can do the birdie hop". (She said this in a good-natured way: she was proud of me for not letting the aura of awkward stifle my creativity.)
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†You *can* do the steps to qualify for most badges piece-by-piece and self-paced, but sometimes there will be organised events where they take you through all the steps for a badge in one go.
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Context: one time I was at a Girl Scout badge workshop†and they asked us to invent a dance. The other kids were awkward and shy about it, but I embraced my assignment and decided to jump up and down while flapping my arms. I called it the birdie hop.
(The other kids looked at me like I'd grown another head. I did not care.)
For quite a while afterward, whenever the topic of knowing how to dance came up, either I or Mom (who was a Girl Scout leader and had witnessed this) would say "well, [I/she] can do the birdie hop". (She said this in a good-natured way: she was proud of me for not letting the aura of awkward stifle my creativity.)
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†You *can* do the steps to qualify for most badges piece-by-piece and self-paced, but sometimes there will be organised events where they take you through all the steps for a badge in one go.