Care with your HANDSHAKE

Saturday morning and there is a bash on the door. There is an enthusiastic young man on the doorstep, asking me if I know about the council elections in May. He was good a bit over enthusiastic BUT there was one thing that let him down. HIS HANDSHAKE. He shook hands with me at the beginning and at the end, each time he did it, he gave me a dominant handshake. A handshake that says to anyone, below their level of awareness, I am more important than you. I mused after he left that perhaps I wouldn't want an arrogant local councillor, after all he was her representative. Make sure your handhake is firm, at around the same strength as the other person, palm to palm with your thumb pointing to the sky. Anne Milton, please note