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At this beautiful little farm-house resort, where a wedding reception was being held, there was a sign.
It read “I hope you dance.” Full stop.
This sign was prominently displayed in the common room, near the kitchen, so I passed by it many times; every time I saw it, the voice in my head read it differently.
“I hope you dance.”
“I hope you ‘dance’.”
Sometimes it was read like Aubrey Plaza as April on Parks & Recreation, other times like Patrick from Spongebob Squarepants. The version I would hear most often, internally, was kind of snarky, like Wayne Campbell from Wayne’s World.
I had some of my peers notice the sign and asked them to read it aloud. Everyone had a slightly different way of reading it. Some were hopeful, others sarcastic. Each person interpreted such a simple phrase in so many different ways.
What would other people think?
