The Handshake Replacement: Your Ideas (elbows, virus, sight, pros)

[shamrock4]

I choose a simple head nod and a smile.

There is no need for any physical touching. There is no way on Earth I would do a hip bump - yuck!

[rfomd129]

A tip of the hat, without the hat, sounds good to me. The praying hands with a bow seems too solemn.

[Oklazona Bound]

Originally Posted by Labonte18

It will. I mean people started thinking the 'OK' symbol was a white power symbol.

I remember that. Perhaps with our current situation people might not get offended so easy especially when no offense is intended.


Perhaps a Fonzie thumbs up?

[ukrkoz]

Romans were very hygienic.
Hence, they came up with 2 salutations.
One was acquired later by NSDAP party as their infamous by now raised hand.
2nd one was more for men, wearing gauntlets on forearms. Usually, military.
They will clasp hand around that gauntlet, close to elbow. That was their equivalent of handshake - hand on forearm, covered by gauntlet, by two men, simultaneously.

[Gerania]

Originally Posted by DenverBrian

I'm voting for the Vulcan "live long and prosper." Though some people have the hardest time separating 2nd and 3rd fingers.

I can almost do that. I can separate the second and third fingers, but the fourth wants to participate. Maybe I can just tape those two together.

[jcp123]

Originally Posted by Labonte18

Head nod. Not a full Japanese bow.. Just.. Kinda like the old school tip of the hat, but no hat required.

Not bad. I think the full bow signals vulnerability the same way that a handshake does (not accessing weapons with the traditional strong hand, or signaling nonaggression by lack of sight). But we kinda generally accept the head nod.

Still, while I’m not married to the handshake, there’s something really important to our nature to friendly physical contact. I don’t think the handshake will fade. But there is something in us which craves a mutual vulnerability in a meeting which means it’ll have to be more than a hat tip.

[shamrock4]

Originally Posted by Gerania

I can almost do that. I can separate the second and third fingers, but the fourth wants to participate. Maybe I can just tape those two together.

I wonder if it is genetic, kind of like being able to roll your tongue?!

[Tallysmom]

How about the Vulcan sign for live long and prosper

[Gerania]

Originally Posted by Maddie104

Maybe we should start using sign language for greetings. Has worked for many.

https://www.babysignlanguage.com/dic...v=7516fd43adaa

The most common, most used signs, are easy to understand, especially if the person forms words with their mouth while signing to the uninitiated. I took an ASL class at a community college in the 1980s. When our teacher said, signed, "Hi, my name is Bob", we all understood.

[Gerania]

Originally Posted by shamrock4

I wonder if it is genetic, kind of like being able to roll your tongue?!

Probably. I can't do the tongue. Though it was many years ago, I used to be able to cross two of my toes. That's freakish.