communication is a two-way street

you know when someone extends their hand to you and you are not quite sure whether they want a handshake or if they just want you to slap them some skin?

in a moment of triumph, mila raised her arm to initiate a high-five, and so I naturally raised mine to meet it. but then mila became worried that I might have just been doing a celebratory raise the roof, so aborted the high-five and jumped right into her own raise the roof. I shrewdly noticed this and so too benched my high-five and called out the raise the roof.

that's okay, I wanted to raise the roof anyway, I don't really like high-fives.