When you meet & greet someone you know well, other than family, how do you do this?

I’m a hugger. If they are a friend- a real one- then I’ll open my arms and hug’em. Acquaintences get a hearty hello and a wave with a big smile.

I hump their leg.to show dominance of course

@lucillelucillelucille The resulting stain will be a bitch to clean.Woof.

However they want to

Well… if it’s my friend and I know what ethnicity they are, I always say “Hello” in their native language ‘cause I’m cool like that. Bonjour! Ni-hao! Konnichi wa! Hola! Buon giorno! Hallo! Olá!... And those are really the only languages I know. I also follow the greeting with a bear hug or a tackle. =]

a hug, maybe a kiss on the check.

For my guy friends, usually a handshake, but not the typical shake up and down… The same goes for parting. For my girl friends (not to be confused with girlfriends…), usually a hug. If I’m meeting someone new, usually the same as dear friends, only different words. Unless she’s wearing a powersuit… then she gets a hard handshake.

Interestingly enough, many of my couple friends seem to have gotten into a routine of a quick hug and kiss when we get together within the past few years. I’m fine with it and reciprocate except for one friend’s SO who has aimed for my lips a few times. That almost felt like a Seinfeld incident. Another friend always says, “Hello, little lady” which tickles me no end.

When introduced to a stranger, I will usually extend my hand for a shake and withdraw it quickly if it isn’t reciprocated.

Some I hug and kiss, some I hug, some I decided if I’m in the mood for before they make it to my front door and either open it or not depending on which way the wind blows.

A huge smile, a great big hug and a kiss on both cheeks.

I’m a hugger, too. Not a kisser except family. One of my boyfriends’ mother years ago welcomed me to a family dinner with a kiss on the lips-just a peck- but freaked me out a little!

Good friends – gentle hug, kiss on each cheek
Business colleague – Handshake “It’s good to see you. What have you been up to?”
Acquaintance I don’t know well – Nod, “Howzitgoin’, [name]?”
Someone I’m just meeting for the first time – Handshake, “How do you do?”

Hugs. Either the face to face kind or the one arm around a shoulder kind. Sometimes it’s a reaching out of both hands, grasping them and then a mutual move where we grip each other’s wrists and then break. I’m not one for “air kisses”.

I’m all just like, waaazzaaaaaaaaaaaaa foo!

((((Hugs)))) Most people like it when I hug them.