TOW .... Greetings !

before coming down they all got to pick a gift .

dinos picked size .
mice picked anti-size .
cheetas picked speed .
tigers picked strength .
chamelions picked color changing abilities .
there was not much left to pick from , by the time human got to the pick-up table .
just : intelligence , tolerance and social skills .
he figured , he really cud not do much with the first two , so he picked the last one , atleast tat cud get him to page-3 !

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the first thing to do after bein gifted wit these skills , was to design protocols of greeting one another , on meeting and departing .
and with that came ....

> the chest bang wit a roar
> the kick each other on the groin
> the slap-so-bad-on-the-back-tat-it-breaks

and then ofcourse the more civilized ones like ...

> the zai-kai-kai-zai handshake
> the regular handshake
> the japanese bow
> the chinese bow
> the french kiss
> the jerk ur head and lift eyebrow
> the one eye wink
> the one finger salute
> the two finger salute
> and yes the 3 , 4 and 5 finger salute .
( lesser the no of fingers , the cooler and less armish it gets !)
> the one finger extend
> the lateral one finger extend
> the one finger extend and shoot with thumb

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later he decided to use other senses like sound and made short silly words tat wud go on to mean something ( and much later , back to meaningless rote sounds ! ) .

- yo , howdy , wassup , olla , namaste and incase u are mallu , a blank face !!

( my whole life i've never heard or seen an indigenous mallu wish or greet . if he is either surprised or pleased or not-happy abt ur visit , he makes the half-a-syllable grunting sound with a upward head jerk ; and if he doesnt feel very strongly abt ur existence on the planet , he jus shows a blank unconcerned face ; and if u say hello to him , he'll prolly work on a quarter smile . tats the mallu way of greeting ( non mallus dont laugh , this one was only 4 us mals) ) .

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then ofcourse there is the more widely used and ergo , the uncoolest of all : "Hello" and "Bye".

but a couple of hundered yrs after its invention , human realised that bye was not enough , it was not quite making the point , as emphatically as he wanted to it , so he imported a "good" into it and replace 'bye' wit 'goodbye' .

and then yet again , after using it for another couple of hundered yrs "goodbye" too lost its charm . it joined the fate of ... 'dunlop icecream' ,'parker pen' and 'amitabh bachan' .

so man , out of need for emphatic expression , gave birth to : TAKE CARE !

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"take care " fascinates me . cuz i really dont get it .

- am i hanging down from the empire state , for dear life , holding the lightning pole on a stormy cloudy rainy night ?

- am i trying to fight a 10 feet tall royal bengal tiger with bare hands , after kicking its posterior ?

- am i letting a 20 yr old girl shop for shoes , with my money ?

well if NO , the i guess i m fine .
thanks for the concern but , i kind of DID KNOW tat i have to take care meself b4 u told me !

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the thing with good-bye is tat we always say good-bye .
whether u are pissed , u r happy , u r angry , u r hungry , u r delighted , u r tired .... GoodBye !
there are no BadByes ?!
always goodbyes .

how come no one says ... GOODHELLO ?
wats so non-good abt hello that was not there in bye ?!
how come bye gets a good and hello gets nothing !!

ya humans shud really have picked the first option !

anyway , thank you for reading .

Good Bye and Take Care !