The touch of a client's hand

"This guy is a sweet enough guy", my ex colleague, who is an agency Account Director, grumbled. "And he's not a bad client", she went on, "but he just holds onto my hand for a bit too long when he shakes it."

Err?

I have been shaking clients' hands for 27 years. It's never happened to me. I put out my hand. The client puts out his. Or hers. We shake. We let go. No sinister lingering. No wistful retention of my fingers, or misinterpretable overfamiliarity with my palm. Not that I've noticed.

So there are 2 possibilities. The first is that I am insensitive to the subtleties of the body language of others. And the other is that my clients just don't fancy me. Dammit.

Comments

[Robert George]

The third is that you're the holder, not the holdee.

[Laurence Blume]

Dammit Russell! That's it!

[Russell Cavanagh]

All these extra jobs you are missing out on that pass you by because you are not a freemason Lawrence ...