You hug-a-phobes have got all kinds of personal space issues.
Hells yeah. In related news, apparently Australia now boasts the largest average dwelling size in the world. My personal space, let me show you it. From a comfortable distance.
Every nightmare I have that doesn't revolve around academic failure or public nudity is about that thing. In fact, once I dreamt that it attacked me while I was late for a test and naked.
Willow ,'The Killer In Me'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
billytea - Dec 15, 2009 6:20:31 pm PST #25455 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
sarameg - Dec 15, 2009 6:25:52 pm PST #25456 of 30001
You hug-a-phobes have got all kinds of personal space issues.
Oh hells yes. It is a constant joke in my department how I involuntarily back away in my chair until I hit a wall. In my own office. It's maybe 10X10. Can't handle anyone beyond half of that before I hit a wall. My bubble, she is huge.
Amy - Dec 15, 2009 6:31:32 pm PST #25457 of 30001
Because books.
I suspect Yankees and dour Scandanvians.
I'm a Yankee!
Hugging at work for me was always sort of a given -- authors meet you and want to hug, most of the time. But for the most part, I'm perfectly happy to keep it to a nod of the head in a professional space.
Jesse - Dec 15, 2009 6:39:32 pm PST #25458 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I like to shake hands!
msbelle - Dec 15, 2009 6:41:36 pm PST #25459 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I like to glare.
§ ita § - Dec 15, 2009 6:44:20 pm PST #25460 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I guess to be accurate I asked wifely permission. I suppose there could have been husbands who minded if I copped a feel but I was biased like that.
megan walker - Dec 15, 2009 6:58:15 pm PST #25461 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
People hug at work?
That's just wrong.
Kristen - Dec 15, 2009 6:58:40 pm PST #25462 of 30001
Has anyone else seen the odd CBS Cares TV spot where the dude advocates doing "something special for your woman this holiday season" and then says, "Schedule her pap smear."
I mean, really?
msbelle - Dec 15, 2009 6:59:29 pm PST #25463 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
YOU MADE THAT UP!
Ginger - Dec 15, 2009 7:03:11 pm PST #25464 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
The even more appalling Hanukkah Pap Schmear [link] is real too.