Schechner on being "off duty" (177)

I was intrigued by the Schechner reading for today. In part two of chapter six he says "But what happens in less guarded moments, when people are "off duty" - when the judge is not judging, the teacher not teaching, the parent not parenting? During these times, the performance aspect of ordinary behavior is less obvious, but not absent. One sets aside formal enactments to play roles that allow more leeway in behavior, that are less like scripted dramas and more like loose improvisations. ..." (177). This immediately made me think of when I was in middle school and high school, teachers would wear jeans to school on some Fridays. I always thought it was weird. They're not normal people. Or at least, I don't want to think about them outside of school. These were thoughts I always had when I encountered them in these situations. This almost goes back to our discussion about the final scene in Without You I Am Nothing and how we do not want to know anything about strippers, this case just is not that extreme.