I’ve been thinking a lot about touching recently, particularly in the workplace. What makes a touch good? What makes it bad? What is comforting? What is too much?

And now, I have what is the best example of why you shouldn’t massage your coworkers. Doesn’t this look like she didn’t want to be touched?

Bush Massages Merkel at the G-8 conference in St. Petersburg (ah, St. Petersburg….)

Don’t be afraid of the German text. You can access the video on the left and see the look of abject horror on dear Angela Merkel’s face. She doesn’t want to be touched by Bush. Who can blame her.

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