it's my fault.  Since I've been wearing this splint on my right wrist I 
have no
longer been providing handshakes of the quality the world expects from me
and what we have been witnessing is merely these radiating waves of 
disappointment
washing up onto our eyeballs.

> > Shake hands FIRMLY? (no
> > wimpy pinching, 3 fingered jobs.)
>
> I'm sorry... I just have to ask. What's up with this? Why are straight 
> men
> obsessed with the handshake? Is there some exchange of psychic powers 
> that
> occurs here?