DanceWalk Down Main Street, Day 6

It’s not often you can say that during one 10-minute stretch, you were John Travolta, Michael Jackson, a Haka War Dance warrior, M.C. Hammer, Mick Jagger, Chubby Checker, The Heat Miser, and “Riverdance's" Michael Flatley.

I mean, others may say it, but they’re probably living in padded rooms.

I, however, danced the dream! And added a little Gene Kelly, to boot.

My fears of dancing alone down Main Street were alleviated by the timely appearance of our friends the Handwerks, whose cable plan doesn’t include a soccer channel showing Chelsea (the team, not the Clinton).

I asked the three boys if they wanted to join my dance team, the Roachettes. Thankfully, they ignored their father’s advice: “Don’t get sucked into the black hole of crazy!”

I now had his three kids, my son, and another neighbor who showed up at just the right moment. (Or, perhaps, the wrong time for his future college-application hopes if this goes viral).

I had several costume changes planned for my Main Street strut, but I had to give up a few wardrobe items to outfit the Roachettes, namely, my Haka beads, “Risky Business” shades, and two cowboy/gardening hats.

The trade-off was worth it since the kids were so engaged they were dancing in the streets before the music even started. My superstars even suggested new moves I hadn’t considered as we made our way down Main Street.

We did the John Wall, the Party Rock, and Gene Kelly’s “Singing in the Rain” around a light post. Eight-year-old Sam probably shouldn’t have swung around the pole and over the street as a car was coming, but what can you do when you’re in the Zone?

So I wouldn’t forget possible dance moves, I wrote them in advance on a piece of paper I taped to a wrist band.

As a result, I looked much like an NFL quarterback “checking the plays.” You know, an NFL quarterback wearing a green fuzzy Irish cowboy hat in honor of “Riverdance.”

During our performance a police car drove by and honked in support, and I noticed more than a few drivers doing triple- and quadruple-takes as they drove by. Fortunately, there were no accidents.

That would have been tough to explain on the accident report: “I was driving down Main Street and an Irish-hat-wearing man and five kids were Moonwalking.”

Talk about someone needing a padded room.

Here are a few dance moves you'll surely recognize in the video: Mick Jagger; The Mummers Strut; me as Travolta at the start of "Saturday Night Fever"--paint can and all; The Moonwalk; the knife fight from the "Beat It" video; The Twist; The Macarena; The Ickey Shuffle; The Running Man; The Haka dance; The John Wall; All of us as Gene Kelly in "Singing in the Rain"; and Riverdance.

All the "best dancers" in one short clip...