I work in an environment which is mainly dominated by males, and of course heading into the future, more females are popping up just as much.  But currently where I work (an IT company), we only have like 5 females to the 20 males in our company.  So there’ll be times that I go out with the fellas to grab lunch or just grab a quick snack, whatever helps us to cure our food cravings really.  Being in a group of guys and walking so closely there’ll be times that we’re all bunched up together and then it happens.  Yes that thing that no heterosexual man will acknowledge and the golden rule is that no one talks about it (just like Fight Club). 

What I am talking about is how when guys accidentally touch or brush their hands against each other and just get that creepy feeling.  I do it so many times and without a doubt when it happens, it’s just a sensation that I am not use to and already feel quite weird.  The funny thing is no man will just come out and say “Hey did we just touch hands”, and apologises etc, cause of course typical men are just homophobes and really don’t like that sort of thing.  Even tonight when my teammates and I were doing duty for basketball, I had my hand on the table and my teammate was writing something on the score sheet.  Then accidentally as he went to put his hand down, he brushed his hand on top of mine and both at the same time with reflex action quickly moved away as if to act that nothing happened.  We didn’t look at each other or say anything but just carried on normally.  I have no doubt that other men have encoutered this and would agree.  In conclusion, my golden rule is that no one should speak about the accidental touches nor even make eye contact, for it would get too far freaky for both victims, can I get an amen on that?

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