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If someone doesn't want to shake hands, I'll probably think "germaphobe." That's a good way to decline a handshake, by the way: tell the person you are getting over illness.
I guess they can think that. I just don't like to be touched--or to touch other people.
You're reaching for the handshake and they grip your hand before you're all the way into the grab, catching you about halfway -- it's like you lost half a point on some cosmic scale.
They have the weak grip that makes you want to shake your own hand around as though trying to dislodge goo -- they were already in negative points but you nearly lost a point through letting it rattle you.
The guys who actually TURN their hand slightly when you shake, as though they want you to KISS it, their grips watery and weak. Do you halfway freeze for just an instant, or do you muster on through? Another half point hangs in the balance.
Your knuckles pop when the other guy squeezes, even though he didn't squeeze that hard. Argh, half a point!
Of course this is all facetious but you KNOW what I'm talking about.
I'm the knuckle popper as I have 17" forearms 'cause I eats me spinach!
... I swear the next guy that grabs my fingers on the way in and squeezes is gonna get KTFO
My dad used to do that to me. It got to be like a contest (to me) to beat him with the squeeze. I never could.
I was a wrestler in high school, and before each dual meet and at the beginning of each match we had to shake hands with our opponents. Our coach (a very good one, BTW) instructed us to give a limp handshake and look away, like the opponent meant nothing to us -- like he wasn't deserving of even meeting us. It was intended to give us a psychological advantage.
I think he had a point; a weak handshake can be a bit of a putdown. I remember having a few hangers-on at major tournaments -- guys I'd beaten or was scheduled to wrestle who followed me around like lost puppies and acted like they wanted to become friends. I never respected them much. It was the ones who acted aloof that worried me.
I work with the public and shake hands all the time.
I don't really put too much thought into it and I can remember only 2 handshakes-
One a man gave me a bone crusher, I wanted to punch him and the other was the limp noodle it was gross.
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