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Originally Posted by Plan9
...he's not mentioning his friend that has the weird habit of checking his oil as a greeting.
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I will never forgive you for the five minutes of my life I spent trying to get spaghetti out of my lungs and laptop compy I will never get back.
I generally greet people with a verbal greeting (or a general group greeting if there are a lot of people), and I will often make physical contact in some fashion with people. The more I like you the greater the chance I touch you, and the more likely it is a more "familiar" touch to put it simply.
For those I don't know well, it is a handshake, but for those I do know well, it could be damn near anything except the aforementioned oil check. Haha. I think people over think these things... the important part is not what you are actually doing per se, but why you are doing it and how it will be interpreted by your audience. You wouldn't pick up someone in greeting or smack them in the ass if they were offended by that, for example.
Conversely, people I don't like don't get to touch me, and I will not put up with it.
My biological father's side of the fam is Hatian, and when I am around people of that culture I do what is expected in that scenario, which is a greeting (with the family title if applicable i.e. Uncle Bob or Uncle instead of Bob) and a handshake for the men, and a kiss on each cheek for the ladies. They always tell me I am well-mannered, so I keep it up.