Residue. Sweat. Smegma. Leftover...fluids. I don't claim to know how often people shower.

I'm good with the handshake going away forever. Done enough of the smile and shake in my previous sales life to last a lifetime. Keep your dickbeaters in your pocket and we can say hello.

Agreed. The hello and wave/nod is fine with me.

Ah. Why do you contract it "reside"? Seems unnecessary.

So bottom line, we're scared of residue. i might get stuff on my hands.

Ohmygod. Whatever shall I do?

Look, I'm not scared of some residue. or 'fluids.' Or whatever.

I've been covered in mud for days, as recently as a couple months ago. Drank water from a river. Didn't shower for a week while fishing 10 hours a day in 90 degree heat and ate food with my unwashed hands. I've been up to my armpits in the chest cavities of more than a dozen deer, or otherwise covered in the blood of countless gamebirds and animals. And shook a lot of hands while doing so over 4 decades. Not to mention to dozen or so quail I pulled the innards out of earlier this year.

Actually, the two best handshakes I can remember was the time I was covered in the guts and blood of my first buck with my dad, and when my brother finally got his first deer a few years later.

'Reside' isn't really a thing for me.

Looking at it now, I'm infinitely glad I wasn't raised to have such phobias.

Do you guys wash your hands immediately after finger-banging your girl/boy friend before you get to homebase, or do you just forego putting your naked finger inside another person entirely?

Must be kind of inconvenient, not to mention something of a mood killer.

Dude. It's a misspelling. And it wasn't mine.

Ah. Mistook it for one of those new 'words.'

I have to breathe through my nose now. Must try chewing gum with mask on before it is over

Obviously handshakes hold some deep meaning to you if you've got your favorites memorized. I don't think most people care about them that much.

Who hasn't rushed a poop and smeared the wipe a bit on base of your thumb a few precious minutes before a meeting and made a business decision to just roll with it and shake hands?

Whatever floats your boat. They were the ones trying to scare me with 'residue.'ROFL

He passed in 2010.

Sorry to hear that. Mine passed in 2018.

he didn't explain the handshake thing before he passed?

It's how shit gets done.

And you think you won't be transferring germs with an exchange of small token gifts.
As for me I'll gladly return to all pre-covid activities. Getting our immune systems challenged is good. Heard the saying "that which doesn't kill us makes us stronger" is actually pretty accurate when it comes to our immune system.