For the life of me I just can’t figure this out.  I am a tweener, between the age where people just know you want an old time hand shake and the new fangled hip hop/man hug deal.  I never know really, so a lot of the time I get caught in no mans land assuming that I am supposed to be doing the man hug and I get that weird look.  Once I found myself in a store I frequent in an awkward hugging situation with the clerk and it was pretty clear that I was the one that didn’t know the protocol.  Then you have the “full on” huggers, which is likely my preferred group to be honest, but you never really know so you go in for a man hug and you get popped in the face by a “full on” hugger.

I just want to let you all know, I don’t have the hip hand shake down, I would love to say I am that hip but apparently I am not.  So if you see me and you want a hug I am down for that but we don’t have to pretend that we aren’t huggers by doing some weird half hug.  Also, if we can just do a regular hand shake I would appreciate it, there is just too much pressure on my suburban dad ass to try and figure out what the latest hand shake is so my preference is the old stand by.