When it comes to shaking someone’s hand, it isn’t as simple as you think. Women are lucky, they rarely (if ever) need to deal with this. There needs to be some sort of unified rule across ALL COUNTRIES and ALL RACES. When you meet someone for the first time, and you go to shake their hand. It should look EXACTLY like this (suit jacket and all!)..
A simple handshake. The worst is when you meet someone and you go for the normal handshake, and they decide to twist it all up and do some lame hand jiggle. You’ve been in that situation, I know it. You meet someone new. You reach out to shake his hand, and he, at the last second, flips his hand up and you end up fucking up the handshake. Now, you look stupid because you didn’t do the “cool” handshake.
But it gets worse. You go in for the handshake. You notice the guy changing his hand for one of those “hey I’m cool.” handshakes. You make the move, you land your hand perfectly to complete this handshake. But, at the end of the shake, when you think all is done and well, the person continues on. They do a snap, or a flip or some lame as thing you fumble on.
No matter who you are, when you mess up a handshake you feel like an idiot. You try to play it off but deep down you feel like an idiot.
So, please, when you shake someone’s hand who you just met. A simple handshake is all that is required. After you’ve known the person for a little bit, then you can add in your own style where you shake hands for 2 minutes as you dance around.
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