We back to shaking hands again?

The Sandbox General
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Had some customer service today from a friendly person, when I completed my purchase I thanked them and shook their hand. Afterwards I thought, huh, I thought we stopped doing that over covid.
What say you? You shaking hands again?

(*) Yeah, I greased up with sanitizer when I got back in my vehicle, but I do that after every store I visit anyway.
the other weird thing was that I was in an apple store. Me. Buying apple products. Never thought I’d see the day.

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I’m back to shaking hands. n=n+1

Also, we had a ‘high fives’ Slack channel at work that was renamed to ‘elbow bumps’ during Covid. Last month we switched it back to high fives. So.

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Did an in-person demo on Wednesday and like 5 dudes came over to shake my hand. Seems like we’re back to doing people’y things now.

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Kinda gross imo. If im forced. Id rather not

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I did enjoy the old handshake but am also quite partial to fistbumps.

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Pretty sure I was back to shaking hands 2 years ago or so.

edit: Probably closer to 18 months ago, not 2 years.

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I shake hands unless I’m feeling slightly under the weather… or suspect the other person might be.

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Mostly this. Where I’m from it barely stopped.

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We’re definitely shaking hands where I am, and feeling good about it. And it’s a deliberate, look’em in the eye and give him a good firm handshake, rather than a perfunctory motion. The kind of thing you were told when you were taught to shake another person’s hand.

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thread needs a poll

TWSS

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Another vote for shaking hands being back to normal

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At my company, we seem to be back to shaking hands somewhat recently, but it’s become normal to decline them (I often do, for various reasons). I was recently at an SOA conference and everyone was hand shaking there.

I have never been a fan of hand shaking (or eye contact), so I wouldn’t have minded if they never made a come back.

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I’m back to shaking hands, and I’m still wearing a mask. I smile broadly, so you can see it above my mask, look them in the eye, and shake firmly.

I always wash my hands before eating. These days I’m also careful to wash my hands before rubbing my eyes. I don’t worry too much about what my hands touch.

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I’m back to uncomfortable hugging

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anything is better than fist bumps.

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Elbow bumps? I know someone who continued that for at least a year.

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What’s wrong with a polite wave?

:wave:

I need to know @colonelsmoothie’s views here

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still in elbow bump mode imo

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Actually you can wear those hand condoms imo, I know there’s a word for those but I forget

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Get in here…