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From: oyster@uwmacc.UUCP (Vicious Oyster)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: hugging, touching, friendship & SOship
Message-ID: <1284@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 15-Jul-85 14:05:45 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 15 14:05:45 1985
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In article <234@cuuxa.UUCP> frye@cuuxa.UUCP (frye) writes:
>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 have an opposing viewpoint:  when I get a very firm, "macho" handshake,
I find myself wondering what kind of power trip this guy (I don't recall
getting such a shake from a woman) is on.  That's a bit of an exaggeration,
but otherwise true.
   I had a manager once who made a big deal out of shaking hands every time 
we saw each other.  This annoyed me (amateur psychologists take note!), so
after awhile, rather than firmly grasping his hand with mine, I would make
my entire arm limp.  He really got upset with me (chuckle)!

-- 
 - joel "vo" plutchak
{allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!oyster

"Take what I say in a different way and it's easy to say that this is
all confusion."