to cringe deeply when a child tries to high-five me?

[YouBloodyWolf]

I'm a late-30s Caucasian male from the burbs.

No, not a policeman Officer, not a girl and not at the Olympics. I wasn't left hanging in an official capacity, but there was a large and unforgiving audience.

YABU. I am the poshest, whitest woman in the world (with the possible exception of the queen) and I high-five several people a day. It would make my year if a child high-fived me.

Never move to NZ then .... "good job dude!Awesoooome!"
Have been here nearly a year,and it still jars

Whupang? Are you Chandler?

Wild - dear God that is embarrassing. I am for you here!

We do high fives with DS1 for successful poos in the toilet. Then we all wash our hands together Soup.

Actually I have just remembered that when DH won the contract he is currently working on, we high fived - and then had some champagne. We don't do it in public

M adult children would never tolerate me trying to do a high five, they tell me off if I attempt a vaguely trendy word. I deliberately go the other way and say things like 'splendid' and 'smashing'.

This also annoys them and I feel my work as a constant irritation to my children is done

Ds1 was taught to shake hands politely by his Montessori Nursery in Hadley Wood, 21 years later DS2 was taught to High-Five by his Sure-Start Nursery on the Tottenham border....

We're still working on the hand-shaking with DS2....

I just grit my teeth and high-five back, it would be churlish not to!

Gosh ds did it all the time at the Olympics. Not because he particularly wanted to but because games makers and policemen and women kept asking him to. I think he thought it was rude not to oblige.

He was taught to shake hands at his Montessori nursery at 2. I'm blaming the Met Police for his new found delinquency at aged 8.

AliBaba don't knock it until you've tried it!

WHUPANG!!!

Hi FIVE !! Ali

Back atcha pp

WHUPANG!!!

Haha! We do a proper Fresh Prince/ Jazz hi-five in our house!

i taught both of my dc's to hi five dd is 1 and ds is 2

i think its really cute, time to lighten up i think.

It's another Americanism that we've adopted that just makes me cringe, so OP YANBU

DH and i fist pump followed by the 'explosion' hand movement complete with very quiet sound effect

i did point out to him yesterday that WE know we are being ironic.....but no-one else does!!

Fist pump? Isn't that a friday night kinda thing...?

I return high fives, fist bumps and secret handshakes offered to me by my students, (I am a TA for 14-16 year olds with behaviour issues).

When my students do well, I do thumbs up, high fives, whoops of joy or even a little dance around the classroom.

I am deeply uncool - but it makes them laugh.

I find the best way to make teenagers cringe is to talk 'gangsta' especially if you are not very good at it.

True soup dragon. However all the wiping is my province currently. Perhaps we will phase out the practice once he DIY on that front.