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And whenever I meet someone...
The first thing I'm supposed to do is extend my hand.
And if I don't say anything, they grab it and get startled and then try to pretend like they weren't startled.
And it's an awkward start to a relationship.
And if I say something like missing a hand, it's a weird thing to say as the first thing I ever say when I meet someone.
I'm missing my right hand.
I can put my right hand out.
It's like, it's like just a small deformed hand and I grab it and it feels weird to them and they didn't expect it.
I can also stick my left hand out, which I did for a while, but that ends up being like a kiss the back of my hand sort of helped me into a carriage kind of situation.
It's been happening my whole life.
I've had a few job interviews where I walked in looking for the manager of the pizza place as a teenager and met the guy and tried to shake his hand and it was weird and it was like,
the only chance i got to ask for a job oh yeah yeah so it's a lot of things like that it's a lot of professional relationships that just start off on a weird foot and i'm not really sure what to do about that yeah um are you are you ever in a situation where you um fist bump with the left hand is that any better that's the best option i found okay unfortunately that doesn't always work and
and formal business situations.
I've tried a lot of different things.
I'll decide I'm going to try a new thing.
Like right now I say,
missing a hand before someone shakes my hand yeah it doesn't really work i've been using that for like a year um if you've got a new idea i can try that'd be awesome well i want to say that you've come to the right place but i can't promise that but we're here and we're gonna we're gonna look into this for you okay i appreciate that yeah i figured you'd have some
Interesting thing to say about it.