When was the last time you gave someone a high-five and what was it for?

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I think I was playing video games.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 19:24 (twenty years ago) link

It was a girl working at a bar. Shaking a girl's hand is weird and sort of Madeline Albrightish, and anyway she had weird bar water on her hands, so we Hi-5'd.

― andy, Wednesday, 21 January 2004 19:27 (twenty years ago) link

I always wonder about shaking a girl's hand. Is it weird?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 19:28 (twenty years ago) link

Not if you've just completed a business deal. < /sanctimonious feminist>

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 19:32 (twenty years ago) link

Haha! "Business deal"! ( /sexist asshole)

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 19:34 (twenty years ago) link

When I was doing my laundry the other day, the laundromat guy's dog sorta gave me five. Not quite a high five, but still.

― Luigi Vampa (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 19:37 (twenty years ago) link

Actually Spencer, a long, uncomfortable, obligatory "hug" is now the accepted method of closing the deal. You should know that.

― andy, Wednesday, 21 January 2004 19:37 (twenty years ago) link

I thought you paid her the $20 and dropped her off back at 3rd/Broadway?

― I don't want anyone to know it was me that made this joke (nickalicious), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 19:44 (twenty years ago) link

The last high-five I shared was with my son after a game of Mariokart.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 19:45 (twenty years ago) link

i give high fives more than i shake hands, wave, and hug combined. i usually preface them by announcing "up top"

― Felcher (Felcher), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 19:46 (twenty years ago) link

Last night, I left a party and said goodbye to this girl I don't know well enough to hug by high-fiving her.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 19:47 (twenty years ago) link

But you know, it was one of those high-fives where you lock fingers and then sort of let your arms fall.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 19:48 (twenty years ago) link

Hey high-five somebody!

― omg, Wednesday, 21 January 2004 19:48 (twenty years ago) link

Jaymc, are you saying that you had a "moment"?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 19:49 (twenty years ago) link

TOO SLOW!

― omg, Wednesday, 21 January 2004 19:49 (twenty years ago) link

There should be another name for that wot jaymc describes, like five-lock or lingering-five or something.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 19:49 (twenty years ago) link

i high five the wifey almost nightly when the food is good

― JaXoN (JasonD), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 19:50 (twenty years ago) link

it sounds something like what was called the "Bon Jovi Rock Lock" when I was in high school.

― Luigi Vampa (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 19:53 (twenty years ago) link

i just high fived my sister

― Felcher (Felcher), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 19:54 (twenty years ago) link

That is fucking awesome. (xpost, the wife+food thing)

― Allyzay, Wednesday, 21 January 2004 19:54 (twenty years ago) link

I high-fived this guy from (New) Jersey tonight when he walked through the door of the room I was in, because Chris is awesome and deserves high-fives at all times.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:00 (twenty years ago) link

Almost Live's "High-Fivin' White Guys" to thread!

― aleksandr supertramp (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:09 (twenty years ago) link

A "moment"? Nah. The thing is, I've known her for a long time, we've just never been more than acquaintances. But I think there's a history of mutual respect or something.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:10 (twenty years ago) link

I high-fived my wife last night upon her knitting a pair of mittens to completion.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:16 (twenty years ago) link

A friend of mine is really into high-fives and gave them to me repeatedly one day a week ago to illustrate this point.

― dean! (deangulberry), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:18 (twenty years ago) link

I need a wife to high-five.

― Luigi Vampa (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:18 (twenty years ago) link

It's lovely to high five your spouse.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:19 (twenty years ago) link

She's still hypothetical, but keep yr damn hands off my girl, Hurlo!

― Luigi Vampa (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:20 (twenty years ago) link

But I heard she was young and hip...

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:21 (twenty years ago) link

Best high-five story:

I was having an eye exam once in an office I had never been to before. It was your typical exam, extremely passive and consisting of me doing the bare minimum of sitting a chair, not falling asleep and keeping my eyes open - all things which I would probably be doing anyhow. When finished, the eye doctor exclaimed "Awesome job!" and stuck his hand up in the air. I was confused at first because he was probably 40 or so and I am young, but not THAT young. I believe I was 20 or 21 at the time. Once I realized he wanted a high-five, I sort of gently extended my hand toward his until our hands shared an awkward fender-bender quality meeting, anti-climactic at best. The sad part is that I need new glasses and am afraid to get my eyes checked for this very reason.

― dean! (deangulberry), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:22 (twenty years ago) link

"That chimp's all right ... High-five."

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:23 (twenty years ago) link

i am in the exact same boat dean! i've been putting off my eye appointments because the guy i go to is overenthusiastic. i mean, i love high-fiving, but he just wierds me out.

― Felcher (Felcher), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:25 (twenty years ago) link

"this soup is nasty"
"KINDA LIKE YOUR SISTER!!! UP TOP!!!"

― Felcher (Felcher), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:25 (twenty years ago) link

knitting a pair of mittens to completion.

Why is this the funniest statement ever???

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:33 (twenty years ago) link

I actually had to think about how to say that concisely. I hope you're applauding my efforts, not mocking me.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:35 (twenty years ago) link

i high-fived a friend over the weekend, in recognition of our total radness.

(i promise that recipe is coming soon, hurlo.)

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:40 (twenty years ago) link

Oh yeah, shit, what was I gonna give to you? roast chicken recipe? Please remind me...I may have been under an influence.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:43 (twenty years ago) link

I actually had to think about how to say that concisely. I hope you're applauding my efforts, not mocking me.

Definitely not mocking, it's just that I associate the phrase "to completion" with euphemistic sex discussions.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:44 (twenty years ago) link

I did not hump that girl to completion.

― humpty (nickalicious), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:45 (twenty years ago) link

Co-worker: Wow, this coffee is great.
Nickalicious: Totally.
Co-worker: What kind is it?
Nickalicious: Sumatra.
Co-worker: It's awesome.
Nickalicious: Totally.
Both: *high five*

― approximately 45 seconds ago (nickalicious), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:47 (twenty years ago) link

Ah, Spencer, I wasn't really worried -- but perhaps we can add "knitting" to the euphemistic arsenal as a result.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:47 (twenty years ago) link

knitting mittens, no less!

― Luigi Vampa (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:48 (twenty years ago) link

um, yeah. about that roast chicken... i'm not eating meat right now so maybe a nice pie recipe or something? i didn't tell you this at the time because i thought you'd be offended (i was a bit under an influence, too).

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:49 (twenty years ago) link

tweeest euphemism ever

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:49 (twenty years ago) link

d'oh! I meant the knitting mittens. Although...

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:49 (twenty years ago) link

Brown mittens. For the record.

lauren, I have a tremendous blueberry pie recipe, but it demands fresh wild blueberries. I will send it on in the next couple days, though.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:51 (twenty years ago) link

wicked. if you were here, i'd high five you.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:53 (twenty years ago) link

A couple nights ago, me and my best friend, too stoned at the time to remember what for

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:53 (twenty years ago) link

It was most likely the 28th of December at the Detroit Lions / St. Louis Rams game my brother and I attended while I was home in Michigan for the holiday. The lowly Lions beat up on the big bad Rams and many high-fives were exchanged between my brother, myself, and other enthusiastic fans in the surrounding seats.

― Broheems (diamond), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 21:01 (twenty years ago) link

i give my two year old one everytime he gets a poopoo in the potty

― mullygrubber (gaz), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 21:08 (twenty years ago) link

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You know what blew me away, I was hanging out w/lauren's posh English friend Caroline on friday night and she gave ME a high five!! I was mighty impressed.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 21 March 2005 17:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Does anyone give a regular, waist-level five anymmore? Seems like that might be 'cool' again, in a I wish I was old enough to remember Linc Hayes kinda way, if you're into that kind of thing - yet, I just don't see it.

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 21 March 2005 18:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Actually dave that's the one we did. Just a palm turned up, forearm parallel with the ground, like you're asking for the car keys but the hand a little flatter.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 21 March 2005 18:06 (nineteen years ago) link

And believe me, it was cool!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 21 March 2005 18:07 (nineteen years ago) link

When I was in Carlsbad, NM, this 60-something-ish guy standing in line in front of me in line at Wendy's extended his flattened palm and grinned at me expectingly. I was completely freaked out for what seemed like fifteen minutes, and finally landed the five on him. He responded "well alrighty then!".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 21 March 2005 18:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Lately I'll just thump my chest with my fist and wink.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 21 March 2005 18:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Well, combining it with Jim Carey quotes is a sure way to ruin a good thing. (I'm thinking that sentence may be reusable.)

xpost

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 21 March 2005 18:11 (nineteen years ago) link

After Ken did a fantastic forehand on the tennis courts on Saturday.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 21 March 2005 18:12 (nineteen years ago) link

I was sitting on a bench in the mall when the Easter Bunny appeared before me, and held up its hand like a stereotyped American Indian saying "How." I was confused, but then realized the Bunny was trolling for a high-five, which I gently gave him before going upstairs to Waldenbooks.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 21 March 2005 18:27 (nineteen years ago) link

sis' bf and i high-fived earlier because we can kick the highest of all of our friends. really really.

― ai lien (kold_krush), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 06:28 (nineteen years ago) link

I asked for a high-five once, from another British girl, sorry brutish, she was from Dundee, and somehow she misunderstood and cracked me in the jaw really hard

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 06:31 (nineteen years ago) link

I regularly high-five my students in the corridors as a form of greeting in the mornings.

'Mis-taaaah Stuchber-eeeeeeee!'

'Dazzaaaaaaaa!'

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 07:11 (nineteen years ago) link

My cat sort of hi-5s me now and then, the lil loon.

Spencer speaking of thumping his chest reminds me of that noble gesture G'Kar does on Bab5 where he thumps his chest with a proud fist and does a little bow - why don't we have those kinds of noble gestures anymore? Bows, folded hands, curtseys, etc.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 08:01 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.sportsecyclopedia.com/al/oakland/bashbros.jpg

― Mr. Harvey Weinstein (mr harvey weinstein), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 08:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Two weeks ago at a nine-year-old's birthday party at a roller skating rink. The birthday boy had must completed a complicated roller skating maneuver. Maybe that doesn't count.

― billBao, Tuesday, 22 March 2005 16:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Celtics game vs. Toronto last week, after Walker and Pierce made 3's to open up a huge 16 pt lead before pissing most of it away in the 4th quarter.

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 16:40 (nineteen years ago) link

yesterday!! it was for telling me to keep on truckin.

― jones (actual), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 16:43 (nineteen years ago) link

last night when my husband and I mutually fished an actor's name out of our brains, he came up with the first name and I came up with the last and then we high-fived.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 17:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Mr Stuchbery, how do you pronounce your name? I say it in my head all double barrelled, like "Stoosh-Berry" - is that wrong?

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 17:42 (nineteen years ago) link

six years pass...

Well?

― A41 (admrl), Monday, 15 August 2011 20:27 (twelve years ago) link

My brother-in-law had a great drive on the 8th hole yesterday, and he initiated a fist-bump. I complied. I like to high-five with young kids at school, or with my friends' kids. 6-year-olds will feel really special if you hit them up with a high-five.

― clemenza, Monday, 15 August 2011 20:58 (twelve years ago) link

Gosh, I wonder which female acquaintance of mine I was high-fiving in 2004.

― Get a Brain Rick Moranis (jaymc), Monday, 15 August 2011 21:39 (twelve years ago) link

I got not more than fifteen minutes ago from a former student saying WHAT'S UP PROF??

― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 15 August 2011 21:40 (twelve years ago) link

high fived a drunk chick laying i a parking lot for 'keeping it real' last wednesday

― vom vom vom vom (№), Monday, 15 August 2011 22:39 (twelve years ago) link

This afternoon with my good friend & work colleague, as a form of goodbye & acknowledgement of a day's work well done.

― just call me brian (krakow), Monday, 15 August 2011 22:46 (twelve years ago) link

I high-five with my gf all the time. We think it's cool, others think it's stupid and annoying.

― Can't Stop the Rop (seandalai), Monday, 15 August 2011 23:20 (twelve years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mii8aJklEOg

― clemenza, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 20:21 (twelve years ago) link

I high-fived my daughter after our "performance" of Bowie's "Starman"

― that mellow wash of meh (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 20:24 (twelve years ago) link

eight years pass...

some tyke of 2 or 3 randomly insisted on giving me a h5 in the subway today, and frankly it was the highlight of a garbage day

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 23 August 2019 00:20 (four years ago) link

of course for all I know he does this w/ 200 strangers per day

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 23 August 2019 00:21 (four years ago) link

thus brightening the corner wherever he is

― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 23 August 2019 01:54 (four years ago) link

my 3 year old nephew, today, after he counted to fifteen on his own :)

― Carly Jae Vespen (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 23 August 2019 02:21 (four years ago) link

One of my best friend's three year olds. Cos he guessed which item the Mousekatool would select on Mickey's Clubhouse

― FUCK YOUR POTATO (Neanderthal), Friday, 23 August 2019 02:43 (four years ago) link

shanti earlier tonight because he guessed it was t.i. three words in

― alomar lines, Friday, 23 August 2019 05:57 (four years ago) link

my wife and i were about to give up on finding the cat's worm meds and leave the store, when we decided to take a look at the dog section just in case. boom! there was one box of them sitting there! HI FIVE!

― andrew m., Friday, 23 August 2019 14:53 (four years ago) link

Last weekend, because it was how the barman wanted to put out the fire that was on my head.

― Elitist cheese photos (aldo), Friday, 23 August 2019 17:54 (four years ago) link

yeah idk this happens all the time to me. kids etc. every one is awesome of course.

― Οὖτις, Friday, 23 August 2019 17:56 (four years ago) link

ironic high-five after winning a team game of two-headed giant magic the gathering

― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Friday, 23 August 2019 18:01 (four years ago) link

introducing myself to toddlers at work, "whats your name? fab, can I get a high five? and a low five? and a fistbump?" - the easiest way to win over a three year old boy is to let them show you how hard they can smack your palm it seems

― boxedjoy, Sunday, 25 August 2019 09:50 (four years ago) link

I'm surely not the only person here who has never given anyone a high-five?

― Boulez, vous couchez avec moi? (Tom D.), Sunday, 25 August 2019 10:18 (four years ago) link

I've trained myself to not instinctively recoil in terror if someone tries to shake my hand, but if I'm loosened up with booze I'll shake hands/fist bump/high five with anyone, but only out of reciprocal politeness, not into any of this physical contact game at all!

― calzino, Sunday, 25 August 2019 10:44 (four years ago) link

Handshakes are AWFUL and i despise them

― boxedjoy, Sunday, 25 August 2019 12:00 (four years ago) link

I do not want someones large sweaty hand gripping mine with a sore tightness in order to establish "a rapport"

― boxedjoy, Sunday, 25 August 2019 12:01 (four years ago) link

I recall someone who once shook hands with Osama Bin Laden before an interview saying it was quite disconcerting because he had a hand like a "withered kipper".

― calzino, Sunday, 25 August 2019 12:12 (four years ago) link

I high five my kids all the time.

― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Sunday, 25 August 2019 20:24 (four years ago) link

I high-fived a dog today because the young girl who was walking her was (rightly) proud of having taught the dog to high-five. I got a high-five from a dog, the dog got a biscuit from me, the kid got validation for her training methods. Everyone was a winner.

― trishyb, Tuesday, 27 August 2019 14:12 (four years ago) link

As someone said uphread, my wife and I high-five each others quite regularly for whatever reasons !
Also with friends during/after football games (on tv) or after a tennis game (irl).

― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, 27 August 2019 14:14 (four years ago) link

Xp. Hah! Good work by that dog's owner.

― calzino, Tuesday, 27 August 2019 14:16 (four years ago) link

as i walked past a booth at the mall yesterday a guy working there reached out to give me a high-five "for good vibes".

― visiting, Wednesday, 28 August 2019 17:03 (four years ago) link

Every Saturday subbing on or off the field while playing Ultimate, though it’s really more of a low five.

― Mazzy Tsar (PBKR), Wednesday, 28 August 2019 17:05 (four years ago) link

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