One Aging Geek

Saturday, May 22, 2004

City of a Thousand Handshakes

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/22/nyregion/22shake.html?ex=1400644800&en=d5e72f02f35427a2&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND

On West 145th Street, between Frederick Douglass and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevards, people have their own way of saying hello. When neighbors want to salute each other, they often use the 1-4-5, a three-part greeting that consists of a single finger to the nose, four placed on the chest above the heart, then a light five-finger slap.

Someone's making a documentary on the way teenagers greet each other. Um. OK. I'm not sure if I find that pathetic or just pointless.