the pound hug myth

It seems that there must be some truth to this pound-hug myth which has been a running joke between me and a friend (you know who you are and I bet you're already grinning by now). This traces its roots to an incident last year when a guy was approaching me and I had a mental panic attack that he might make beso (haha ang conyo) to me, to think that we're not even close. So in that split second when I had to make a decision, I suddenly took the lead and POUND-HUGGED him, much to the hilarity of my friends who witnessed the incident.

I was trying to justify my act when the story was related again to my other friends, to which one guy friend looked at me as if I was crazy. Okay fine, only guys do the pound hug. But hey, I did a fist bump with another guy before and the Obamas also famously did the move. And according to this picture, it has a lesser risk of swine flu contraction (haha).

Okay, so I thought it was just one of those unique moments that I'll laugh about again in n years. I'm even glad that the said friend in the first paragraph also had an almost-pound-hug incident herself (so see, it happens). But lo and behold, I almost had the same defensive instinct tonight at a dinner party. Guy (who I wasn't expecting to be at the party, not my crush, but he is cute) suddenly arrives to our table (my parents and I are eating there with his family) and made beso to my parents. Mental panic attack on my head and I had this very weird URGE to pound hug him! I'm like what the heck are you thinking? Thankfully, I didn't do that. I think it was an embarrassing encounter for both of us (since we're just acquaintances even though we played when we were children) and I just muttered a "Hey..." (without meeting his eyes, yeah, I'm a coward), and he responded by patting (or did he just tapped it?) me on my shoulders. Okay, that was a weird response but oh well at least nothing embarrassing happened throughout the whole night.

So yeah, I don't know why I wrote this in my public blog, but yeah...