Strange people in your college town...

[lifesaver]

We had "The Dancing Guy". He was actually a student.

The UTSA campus is pretty compact. 26,000 students, but theres only 10 buildings, theyre big buildings, but theres only 10 of 'em.

The largest buiding is where a lot of the lecture hall classes are. The lecture halls seat from 150-500 people, so there are a lot of people in the building at any one time.

The campus is out in the middle of nowhere. (I dont mean in a bad part of town, I mean 15 minutes out in the woods.) Its 15 minutes to anything except a gas station, hotel and a McDonalds/Subway. Since it is a hella walk to your car and then a drive to get anything to eat, most people would just hang out on campus if they had a break. The way classes are scheduled, most people would try to schedule stuff to stay there for a 5 hour time block with an hour or two break built in. The point is that you'd always have lots of people hanging out for hours on end. Some people would schedule all their classes on MWF or Tu-Th. so they would be there all day. This one dude was always hanging out. He was probably 40 or so and ALWAYS had earphones on and would hang out on the catwalks (the elevated walkways connecting the different sides of the galleria in the main building) and would dance. I dont mean just moving a little. I mean getting his freak ON. Think a Brittany Spears dance video routine without the rest of the dancers. Kinda looks silly with one person doing it.

There were all kinds of urban legends, like he had been a bomb technician in the army, or that someone slipped LSD in his food in the dorms, so the school had to give him a free education and he was now working on his PhD, yada yada. He was an icon tho. Fraternities would invite him out to parties. No one ever really talked to him. He was kinda freaky, but an icon none the less. I dotn think anyone ever had a class with him. With the exception of the occasional fraternity party, I never saw him anywhere else, but dancing on those catwalks, 35 feet it the air, grooving up against the rail looking down on everyone else.

Freaky indeed.