Is this Rude

[IAMANOBODY2015]

Say that you are in a social setting and you are meeting new people and shaking their hands, but you come across one person who politely refuses to shake your hand, he is friendly but does not shake your hand, is that

A. Rude
B. It depends on how he refuses
C. It depends on motive

In my situation, I refused to shake someone's hand because it was very dirty. But I was very friendly.

 

[Take Heart]

C.
I'm sure he has his own reasons and it may very well not be personal at all against you.

 

[tturt]

Right now a lot of virus' and often health officials are saying wash hands often. Perhaps he wasn't feeling well and didn't want to risk exposure.

 

[abysmul]

I wish our culture (I live in the states) would adopt the tradition of bowing over handshakes.

 

[com7fy8]

You can go and wash your hands, right after you shake a dirty hand.

Were you rude not to shake the person's hand? Maybe you were not really rude, but possibly you were being too fussy.

If someone dropped something in the dirt, you might pick up that dirty thing, to help the person; so why worry about some dirt on a hand?

But I have helped in a church free dinner thing, and there is at least one person who I am not sure is a sanitary person. So, if I shake his hand, right away I go and wash and maybe put on antiseptic hand cleanser. And I may do this for anyone else, too . . . after shaking hands with anyone . . . since I am in a sanitary function, handling food and drink items and washing dishes.

 

[LightBearer]

Mark 1:40,41 "There also came to him a leper, pleading with him even on bended knee, saying to him: “If you just want to, you can make me clean.” At that he was moved with pity, and he stretched out his hand and touched him, and said to him: “I want to! Be made clean.”