please hang it on the wall
so you will remember
when i was quite small
of all the stuff my angels made in school this is my favorite by a country mile. occasionally when i think of it i get a little choked. hands are a big deal to me. when sonny was a little guy part of our pre-bedtime ritual was shaking hands. his job was to squeeze as hard as he could. a strong handshake is essential in the business world as it's usually the first contact when greeting a business associate or going into a job interview. you only have one chance to make a strong first impression and blowing it with a poor handshake is just plain stupid.a firm grip also goes a long way toward establishing yourself as the alpha male. on the flip side, a limp grip is also something that won't be soon forgotten. another thing, keep your hands out your feckin pockets before shaking hands. a soft, sweaty grip is almost as bad as a limp wrist.
sonny is currently in his 16th year of karate and spent 4 summers in the core shack at various mining camps. now that he's in the business world it's highly unlikely that he'll come up short on a handshake. i did the same thing with the fast food princess but she liked to inflict pain by squeezing the fingers on each side of my ring. that can really hurt if done correctly.
the preceeding babble was just an excuse to play one of my favorite songs.
i love you sons of bitches
18 comments:
A strong handshake is very important, so is using a lot of hand sanitizer afterward.
And there I was thinking the handshake was losing ground to the Borat-style high five... not to mention kissing cheeks.
tex - good point, especially after a deadwood handshake to seal a deal.
gb - kissing cheeks, reason # 48 i'm happy not be french.
Funny you would bring that up, in 2004 after an issue with a so called christian I put my hand print in a cement cast, maybe I should post a picture of it someday, if I remember to.
Don't recall ever shaking my sons hand, just recall hugging him, hugs are good too.
Of course he then went and fucked up his life in Las Vegas, well, all we can do is raise them and hope for the best.
He's a good kid at heart though.
billy - after watching sons of anarchy me and sonny have exchanged a few hugs outlaw biker style.
Outlaw biker style, hum, just hugged my son cuz I loved him. Is that a style?
I hate this planet, but I like turtles.
that's weird...my daddy taught me how to shake hands too...had forgotten all about it till now..
I'd love you even if you had a wimpy hand shake.
Yeah, we have a garage full of kid projects. We're waiting for them to have their own garages so we can just keep the best of the crafts.
billy - biker style, a strong hug with loud hard slaps on the back. you love this planet, it's the human infestation that drives you nuts.
yellowdog - it must be a viking thing.
robert - i've pared the crafts down to about 4 boxes but our garage and basement is full of clothes, furniture and electronic junk that will probably never be reclaimed. so it goes.
Atticus and I enjoyed this post.
thims - i think put it there perfectly sums up the relationship between father and son. glad you enjoyed it.
Excellent advice and post BP. My little man likes to come up to me, grabbed my hand, and say "Walk" so I can totally relate to the hands being a big deal. I just love holding the little dude's hand and walking around with him. And he is working on his karate chop and kicks so he might be up there with Sonny on the karate some day.
Aw, man, BP! You choked up this tough old broad.
I cultivated a strong handshake on my own, from adolescence. Not easy with these tiny wrists and small hands. To this day, with arthritis, I never wimp out on a handshake. And I'm amazed by the number of men who, variously, 1)only touch three fingers as far as the knuckle joint, 2)barely touch that offered hand at all, 3)look surprised and a little taken aback that a woman can shake hands, 4)do the limp fish thing...etc.
In my business, how I shook a husband's hand at the start of a first conjoint marital session usually set the tone for my authoritative role in the process. The guys always shook hands hard in that setting, especially when the issue at hand was that they'd been caught at something. So it goes.
I have a cast of my sons footprint when he was a young boy - it chokes me up, too. The footstep of a young Buddha.
"Borat-style high five... not to mention kissing cheeks."
I myself enjoy the popular terrorist fist bump.
nance - i immediately put a halo on a woman with a firm handshake. they say to avoid the halo effect but for a good handshake i'll bend the rule.
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