I am not a good hugger. I mean oh sure, I'll let you use my
shirt as a snot rag when you're sad. Grab you and jump up and down, screaming
when something amazing happens. I’ll even do a quick wrap around when I haven't
seen you in ages.
I seriously can’t, CAN’T, hug you when I don’t know you. If
we just met, we better have survived some crazy end of the world catastrophe. Like
a meteor, a train collision, or the titanic is going down.
At work I made a friend. Cut
the jokes. She’s really nice and we chat whenever we run into each other.
However, I never knew her name. The other day I answered the phone at the front
desk and helped a fellow co worker by running to the break room and checking
her schedule. Lo and behold, it was my new friend. Yay! She decides to thank me
with a really awkward, sideways, one armed hug. I froze, then immediately
started a rapid paced conversation about traffic. While backing away slowly,
pushing my mop bucket.
I have to be missing some important female genome. Don’t all
women hug? They hug at work, at the gym, everywhere!
Casual acquaintances hug when they haven’t seen each other in years.
“Jane, Hi!”
“Eliza, oh my goodness, how are you? It’s been forever.”
HUGGING, HUGGING, HUGGING.
Not me. I guess I’m just weird.
Love,
Grace
Never really thought about whether I'm a hugger or not. They do seem kind of awkward though. DO I hug you? Are you moving for a hug? Should we hug? Do i even really like you? ha
ReplyDeleteShannon, that comment cracked me up. Those are the exact thoughts that race through my head. Are we, yep, we're hugging. Okay.
ReplyDeleteI agree I am not a big hugger and even less so if I don't know you.
ReplyDeleteAnd if you want to talk to someone who is a terrible awkward hugger you should speak to Erin!
This reminds me of Erin Wind cause she hates hugs too, I guess I might be a hugger, not usually the first time meeting someone though and definitely NOT after I've just been at the gym.
ReplyDeleteThis makes me think of Erin Wind cause she hates hugs...I think I'm a hugger but not unless I know you, and definitely NOT at the gym, that's icky.
ReplyDeleteLOL :)
ReplyDeleteOh Erin :) I didn't think of her when I wrote this but it's so true. I now dedicate this post to our dear friend Erin. Who suffers from Hugaphobia. It's very common and rarely deadly. She's coping. We're so proud of her.
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