u/Alphabot87

This happened to me in the morning, and I still can't shake myself out of it. I was left hanging in the most awkward situation possible. I was meeting with the team for the first time and was casually greeting everyone by shaking their hands, and there were three arab ladies, first one responded the second one graciously pulled back her hand and placed it on her chest, for a second, I couldn't process what was going on and i again extended out my hand to which she did the same thing, this time visibly puzzled, the next lady was again arabic and i was trying with all my might to retract my hand which for some strange reason i lost control of, i tried to manage with some small talk, asked about their domain all the while thinking about fleeing. Now that I am a senior and am sure I might have acted like a total a$$ in front of them, I dread going back to the office tomorrow, thinking of taking a 10-day break so they kind of forget this horrible ordeal.