It seems like stalking. Am I being too sensitive?
For several years, I have been the recipient of a friend’s annoying habit of “punctuating” what is being said by touching me.
I am not averse to touch and thoroughly enjoy warm hugs, but this physical contact is distracting and bothers me.Start screaming. Develop your own bad habit of yelping in alarm every time your friend pokes or pushes you, pleading that you were startled and taken off-guard. In the past few years, I have had three chairs break. Most recently, a guest kept leaning back in a straight-backed chair as though he were trying to make it recline. I anticipated what would happen but didn’t know what to say. Sure enough, soon there was a distinct crack, which both he and his wife ignored.PUT THE FURNITURE AWAY. Oops. Sorry. Miss Manners does not mean to yell.
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