Have any friends that you would classify as winkers? I know of a couple folks and it catches me off guard everytime. These winking folks wink often, as in at least a few times within an hour.
They offer several kinds of winks:
- You're both listening to some conversation or both witness the same thing. You look at your friend for a mutual mental agreement and they slip in a wink.
- They wink to say hello.
- And then there's the wink coming out of left field, and you're not sure why. It just happens.
While I'm aware of the winking capacity of my friends, I just never get used to it. Everytime the wink happens I want to take a double shot. I mentally think, "did he/she just wink at me?" It takes my brain at least half a second to remember that he/she is a winker and then I'm busy wondering if I made some kind of odd reaction to the wink and did the person notice, which leads me to the question of how are you supposed to respond to a wink? Do you wink back? I dare not. It's just not my style and seems just a bit awkward as if you were making fun of his/her wink. At the same time you don't want to ignore the wink. It seems there must be a way to acknowledge the wink. A "yes, wink recieved" response. I've yet to come up with this.
Final note: I have no ill/bad/negative feeling towards the winkers of the world. Afterall, a wink is a kind gesture, only spreading goodness. I say wink away, maybe it will catch on and there will be more people wondering about those that don't wink someday.
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