Thursday, January 8, 2009

Trivia

Much like today, in the Middle Ages, no one really trusted anyone else. As someone approached, to alleviate paranoia, he would hold out his open palm to show that he was not going to whack your head off with a sword. This gesture put everybody at ease, and eventually evolved into the modern custom known as the handshake.

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

You've gotta hand it to the Middle Ages....