Won't Stop, Can't Stop

OMG I am such a dork you guys. I have taken to giving the thumbs up. I do it ALL THE TIME and in MULTIPLE SITUATIONS. I am actually getting really embarrassed.

A few thumbs up situations:

Sitch #1:

Co-Worker: Would it be OK if I get said work document to you tomorrow instead of today?
Me: (thumbs up) Sure, no problem that is cool.

No, not cool. Not cool at all.

Sitch #2:

Co-Worker comes over to my cube buddy’s desk and starts speaking in Spanish. Cube buddy fluently responds. Co-Worker walks away.

I turn around and bust the thumb while laughing.

Cube Buddy: haha did you just give me the thumbs up?
Me: haha, yup I did. You speak Spanish now? You are like surprising me and being all important these days; speaking foreign languages, busting out your writing skills because you were apparently an English major…

Though the cube buddy responded with multiple laughs, WHY with the thumb? Many other ways I could have gone about that to get my point across, and I chose the thumb.

Sitch #3:

No-Name with GF comes over to my desk and asks how I’m doing.

My response? Smile, “good”, and again with the thumb.

It is true that I have invented a variety of uses for the classic thumbs up. How are you doing today? So good, thumb. Is it OK if this happens? Sure, thumb. You are being super cool right now; I’ll give you the thumb. It is nice to have a positive finger gesture when the middle finger gesture has given finger gestures in general a bad name. But, WHY AM I MAKING IT MY SIGNATURE MOVE? I don’t want it to be; not even a little bit, not even at all.

If any of you have seen the movie with the now anorexic Kate Bosworth and that dude who should have stayed on That 70’s Show because all he is doing now is movies like this then you will know what I am taking about in the next few sentences. There is a part in the movie that makes girls like my friend B (and me in secret) swoon when that dude tells Kate that she has 6 smiles and that means he loves her because he knows her smiles and stuff. Now this is a worst case scenario of a “what if” but WHAT IF the thumb busting doesn’t stop and some guy finally falls in love with me and tells me he loves me and I should know because he knows all of my 6 thumb move situations. I will die. Dead.