The wobble

Indians move there heads differently to nod ‘Yes’. They wobble their head side to side in a quick figure eight. It looks kind of like a bobble head does on the dashboard of your car, but faster, kind of how you imagine a sperm might wiggle. At first it really threw me off when I was talking to somebody and they started wobbling their head. I felt like they were mocking me and then I would just start laughing. It’s hard to keep a straight face because it looks so funny. The wobble is very disarming though, and made me smile and feel comfortable with whoever I was talking with. After a while I was able to get the wobble down and it was quite fun.