Fun & interesting meeting yesterday

[contender]

I had an interesting meeting with a new customer yesterday.

I went to this lady's house,, and when she came out,, I introduced myself, offered her my card, and reached out to shake her hand. She said; "Wow,, your hands are rough, you must be a conservative!" I asked her how she knew that, and she replied; "You are a working man, and it shows!"

Made my day!

 

[Wyandot Jim]

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Yea but did you show her the bottom of your feet?????

 

[contender]

Nahh,, I do wear some form of footwear when meeting customers,, usually,,,! (But not always.)

 

[Joe Reilly]

Nahh,, I do wear some form of footwear when meeting customers,, usually,,,! (But not always.)

Yabba Dabbba Doo

 

[Delbert]

Sounds like she likes it rough.

 

[jav]

I been retired for 6 years I have sissy hands now use to be rough took a while to soften up

 

[blume357]

Somebody mentioned my rough hands a month or two ago and I thought it was kind of odd... they don't seem that rough to me. But then one of the most slightly embarrassing times of my life was when I was in the hospital after my heart attack. I had just finished rebuilding the top of a chimney that day and was not wearing gloves and the last couple of bricks I used had coal soot on them and my hands were black when they rolled me into the ER and coal soot does not wash off. Good female friend came to see me in ICU the next day and she did her best to wash them for me. She related it to when Jesus washed his disciples feet.

 

[Mobuck]

On the 'other hand': Since the 11/2/22 fire my hands are more like a baby's skin. I wear gloves all the time I'm outside to protect them.
Last year at a carry in meal in the community center, I was talking to a woman I'd gone to school with and for some reason, she took my hand. The funny thing is she just held it and gently rubbed the back and then said "It's so soft- just like a baby's skin". Her husband gave me an odd look and I stammered something about lucky to have hands at all but she just kept holding and gently rubbing.
Can you say AWKWARD??
Since all of us are long time friends, it was no harm/no foul but Grouch Attack still brings it up now and then.

 

[GasGuzzler]

People ask me: "oilfield or mechanic?"

 

[Jeepnik]

What I find interesting that medical folks ask either " what's wrong with your hands" or "what happened to your hands". I finally figured out a good response.

I tell them that most people live in a world of soft surfaces, smooth edges and rounded corners. The worst thing they face is a paper cut. My world is hard surfaces, jagged edges and sharp corners. If you get into trouble, which hands do you want around?