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[thereshego]

[ Lounging in a folding chair out off at the center of camp is a green-skinned woman, filing her nails, her gloves on as she does so. Beside her is a suitcase and a few magazines

Comments

[im_impulse]

How're you supposed to guide people away from stuff without toucing. Especially those leaped before looking things?

[thereshego]

I can initiate touch. Not the other way around.

[im_impulse]

But no touchies sounds like no touching at all. There are lots of people who have huge personal space bubbles like they're in biohazard suits or they're intangible or they think other people smell 'cause of super heightened senses...

[thereshego]

... Do you just like being contrary or something?

[im_impulse]

No, I'm just trying to figure out which one you are! You don't look intangible but if you're radioactive or just grumpy I can know whether or not I should offer tinfoil or nodding a lot politely.

[thereshego]

... Okay, let's go over this again. No touchie means that my patients do not get to touch me. It's a professional kind of thing. I, however, can touch them if I need to subdue them from like, oh I don't know, jumping off of their cabin roof naked and trying to swan dive into a trash can.

And yes, I have seen that on TV before.

[im_impulse]

Oh I've tried that before! But not the naked or the trash can part. That's be silly! Why jump off a roof if you couldn't fly? Or jump really really high?

But what if they wanna get your attention by tapping you on the shoulder or giving you a high five?

[thereshego]

Who does high-fives anymore, seriously? No one's allowed to do that to me. Ever. In fact, that'll be my new rule.

[im_impulse]

Hey, high fives are a universal greeting. There are aliens in the 31st century that respond to it better than the Spock sign.

[thereshego]

Stupidity is also a universal social ailment. I try to avoid it as much as possible.

[im_impulse]

Oh so that's why you don't like being touched! But that wouldn't matter unless you were a telepath and even if you were it's not from touching, it's more of a brain thing.

[thereshego]

Yeah, I'm kinda having trouble following anything you say. I don't like being touched because I don't want patients getting the wrong idea about what is allowed in a professional relationship.