( Sorry, Mops. He generally means well, there's no malicious intent there. It's easy to make a case that he can act overly familiar with strangers early on. He'd apologize if he picked up on it, but she rolls along with grace and he doesn't notice.

He nods sagely. )

Waving, that's a staple. That's a good one. Um- there are probably a few other regulars you should have in your repertoire. High fives, fist bumps, cooler fist bumps, the ever-classy hand-kiss. Those all familiar?

( It's also easy to make the case that he is occasionally (and entirely accidentally) a mansplainer — not because he questions the experience or intelligence of the person he's speaking with, so much as he just gets carried away going on tangents and giving rambling lectures. Great habit as a teacher, sometimes less great to new acquaintances. )