I think every caller has a pet peeve (and if you read the sd-callers mailing list, you’ll agree with me). Here’s your chance to exercise your pet peeve. Hate highland fling dosados? Then spend this week calling dosado variations that’ll force those intransigent dancers to do dosados right, by golly. Dislike the way dancers circle to a line? Call “circle to a line and roll…” That’ll get ’em!

My personal pet peeve is grand square…I hate the three-step or two-step grand square. I try to always hit the phrase for the call (if I can’t, I won’t call it; I’ll substitute something else). But I’m not sure what else I can do to force the issue. For those of us who are technically inclined, there are reasons for not calling “Grand Square 6 steps”. I think I’ll just announce that it’s pet peeve week and ask dancers to indulge me…they can dance it if they really think about it.