[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Megatron96

Welcome to your POV.

Though, from my perspective, being worried about someone touching their face, or 'germs' in general, as a healthy adult, is ridiculous. Americans have been conditioned to be wary of 'germs' like one 'germ' is going to get you somehow. If that were the case, there wouldn't be a human race. Every time you hold hands with your gf/bf/wife/whatever, kiss, hell, every time your mother patted you on the head there were germs involved. Your body kills them off 99.9999% of the time. Whoop-de-doo.

There are germs on you right now. On everyone you know. There are germs on virtually every surface in your house, car, at work, on your food, everywhere. The phone your using to write posts right now is covered in germs. Or your keyboard or whatever. Oh God, what should we do?

Nothing. your body deals with germs everyday, all day, 365/7/24.

you might as well worry about being struck by lightning.

You're defending a centuries-old custom for no reason other than that it's a centuries-old custom. We should strive to improve everything we do all the time, and handshakes are no different.

In the interest of creativity and improvement, let me offer a few suggestions and let's react to them.

• We do a short greeting dance, similar to perhaps a sage grouse mating dance.
  
• If you're committed to spreading germs to build immunity, perhaps we can cough on each other.
  
• Nipple tweaks.
  
• A symbolic non-contact uppercut to the chin.
  
• A polite bow of the head, accompanied by a small symbolic gift of candy or Dr. Pepper.