Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihlpg.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!ihlpg!jeand From: jeand@ihlpg.UUCP (AMBAR) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: hugging, touching, friendship & SOship Message-ID: <850@ihlpg.UUCP> Date: Sat, 13-Jul-85 21:57:30 EDT Article-I.D.: ihlpg.850 Posted: Sat Jul 13 21:57:30 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 14-Jul-85 09:26:36 EDT References: <234@cuuxa.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 20 > Back to touching, How do you folks out there feel about > those damned "dead fish" handshakes. I can understand > if some guy is running for office and shakes 4000 hands > a day. He's gonna make his arm fall off if he gives every- > one a good healthy squeeze. But, if I'm introduced to the > average guy and get the cold dead fish, I find myself in > doubt of the guy's sincerity. I don't cast aspersions on their sincerity, just their personality in general. I usually attribute it to the 'treat her like china' attitude, which is one of the best ways I know to get on my worst side. I'm not talking about the kind of handshakes that seem to be a contest--you can leave a definite sense of your presence without breaking bones. -- AMBAR {the known universe}!ihnp4!ihlpg!jeand "To those who love it is given to hear Music too high for the human ear." --Bruce Cockburn