FROM OUR READERS
SOCIAL GREETINGS ANALYZED: THE HUG VS. THE HANDSHAKE
by From Our Readers
It’s the most terrifying five seconds your life. An old friend, work associate, awkward family member (or basically someone that teeters that fine line between more than acquaintance, less than good friend) is coming your way and your mind races with appropriate greeting gestures. Senselessly, it almost always comes down to the polar opposites of greeting gestures: the hug or the handshake. The problem with having to make this critical decision is that no matter the choice you make, it is – 100% of the time – horrifyingly not the choice that your fellow greeter has made.
You know what I’m talking about – you choose the hug, they choose the handshake and both of you try to switch your choices resulting in the weirdest spastic dance sequence of arms simultaneously switching from open, to closed, to thrusting forward and pulling back while bodies move towards each other in a still questionable collision. Don’t forget that this frantic readjustment of limbs is always accompanied by verbal greetings which are also going downhill: “Hi! How are you it’s been so loo…ooop! Should…we…hug…or…? Yup….ok…haha! Ok so…”
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ReplyDeleteReally akward moment indeed.
ReplyDeleteI feel very pathetic when that happens to me (and it happens vary often).