She’s ingenious in how she mixes up the audience. How she gets everyone to know each other.
One of her techniques is to pass out names of famous couples and have everyone find their match. So for Bert there’s an Ernie somewhere in the room. For Ben there’s a Jerry. And so on.
She hands out the names, and the room is briefly in chaos as the group reorganizes itself into twosomes.
“And just in case we have an odd number of people,” she says, “I’ve got these.”
She holds up three names — not a famous couple but a famous triple. She holds the three names up in the air: Moe, Curly, Larry.
“I don’t get it,” one of the young women says.
Wow. Time does tick away, doesn’t it.