I'm definitely not a hugger, and a lot of my friends know that so don't even go there. One does like to hug, but now I know she will, I'm prepared for it. My boss also is a hugger, but he usually does say "can I have a hug" to give warning. I strangely don't actually mind it from him.
Hugs that take me by surprise are most disconcerting. I never seem to know what ot do with my arms. Or my head. Or any other part of my body come to think of it.
Yeah, asking permission and/or signalling a hug is imminent is very important... and the arms thing - I accidentally touched a co-worker's bum during a 'goodbye hug' on her last day (she was wearing a backpack and I couldn't hug including the pack and if I'd gone up my hands would have been round her neck... down seemed the only option... FAIL!)
I have previously been adamant that I WOULDN'T be doing a goodbye-hug but then the peer-pressure was too much and I caved.
Luckily she thought it was hilarious and was laughing so much on the train on her way home that she had to pretend to be on her phone so that she didn't look like a complete loon...
Yeah, asking permission and/or signalling a hug is imminent is very important... and the arms thing - I accidentally touched a co-worker's bum during a 'goodbye hug' on her last day (she was wearing a backpack and I couldn't hug including the pack and if I'd gone up my hands would have been round her neck... down seemed the only option... FAIL!)
I have previously been adamant that I WOULDN'T be doing a goodbye-hug but then the peer-pressure was too much and I caved.
Luckily she thought it was hilarious and was laughing so much on the train on her way home that she had to pretend to be on her phone so that she didn't look like a complete loon...
