A point of contact I definitely did not need.
Picture this: You’ve just finished a heated debate round, and the temperature of the classroom has risen tenfold. Your freshman opponents get up and proceed toward the judge to shake their hand — a common courtesy in professional settings, supposed to add to their ethos.
Then they walk over to you. You can almost see perspiration rapidly pouring out of their hands. Awkwardly, they stick their hand out in expectation of a handshake — and . . . I dart in the other direction. Don’t tell me I should shake a clammy hand for common courtesy. I’m happy with a wave or even an elbow bump. Just please keep your clammy hand to yourself.
