'Objects In Space'
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.
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.
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.
I like to shake hands!
I like to glare.
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.
People hug at work?
That's just wrong.
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?
YOU MADE THAT UP!
The even more appalling Hanukkah Pap Schmear [link] is real too.
I have no issues with hugging at work.