How do (did) you greet your father?

[Nouveau Pauvre]

I wait for the guard to step back and press the red buzzer.

 

[Rambo]

I have nothing to add so I'll just say enjoy whatever time with your father that you've got left.

 

[Dakota rube]

Originally Posted by Cary Grant

Interesting question. I had a great upbringing but it was very Midwestern in that it was not very demonstrative. After 44 years it's only been recently that it usually includes a hug... it changed when my father's mom died several years ago and dad started sensing his own mortality and questioning his values a bit.

My father changed considerably in the years following my mother's death. Prior to that we greeted with a handshake or a nod of the head.

Originally Posted by Rambo

...I'll just say enjoy whatever time with your father that you've got left.

These are wise words.

 

[texas_jack]

hug

 

[binge]

Usually a hug. Sometimes the Handsome Black Man.

 

[gnatty8]

Handshake. We don't have a very emotive family. My father greets his sister the same way, with a handshake and a smile.

 

[james_timothy]

Definitely a hug, but this is past tense. Greeting and leaving. Since we lived 3000 miles apart they were inextricably linked.

 

[Nathaniel72]

"Hey" ...and maybe a head nod

 

[IUtoSLU]

Usedto be handshake when we lived in different states. Now that we see each other often, it is usually nothing.

 

[tagutcow]

Originally Posted by Nathaniel72

"Hey" ...and maybe a head nod

Wow, you have the same relationship with your father that I have with everybody.

 

[ratboycom]

Me: "Daddy-O!" Him: "Boolie-B!" usually followed by the handshake from the Fahrenheit 451 movie (a mid forearm grab followed by a twist) and a hug.

 

[foodguy]

duplicate

 

[foodguy]

Originally Posted by Dakota rube

a handshake or a nod of the head.
wow! that's pretty demonstrative for a north dakota lutheran!

 

[Dakota rube]

Originally Posted by foodguy

wow! that's pretty demonstrative for a north dakota lutheran!

At the time, I was neither a North Dakotan, nor a Lutheran.
And he was a Nebraska-born converted "” then lapsed "” Jew.

 

[takashi]

Just look each other and say hey/hello/how are you?
No hug