Marcella - Interesting tale of how you dealt with a masher.
I admire your strategery!
I meant to put the above quote on before I told that story about the man always putting his hands on me. This guy always did his touching of me when there were people around - I would have made a scene if I confronted him with people there and couldn't bring myself to do that.
He did something in the fellowship hall every Sunday morning and I can't remember what that was but I knew he would be in there by himself. “Don't touch me” stopped him from doing that again.
See, I think Hussein does the same thing, which was my point. He puts his hands on people to send that message of “I am running this show.” He started to pat Putin on the back and drew back his hand quickly just like the masher stopped his arms in mid-air. Hussein is no different than the masher at the church. Putin has sent his message of “Don't touch me” to Hussein. He didn't do it the way I did, verbally, but he did it and Hussein got his message of “Don't touch me”.