No one had offered to take Professor Vanderjuice's hat, so he held it in his lap, as an insecure actor might a "prop."
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Who in this meeting of rich assholes gives a shit about anybody but themselves? Of course nobody offered to take his hat. Besides, withholding some social convention that's expected in particular situations is how rich and powerful jerks fuck with the poor and powerless masses. Not that I'm one for simply acting out stupid and arbitrary social conventions. But at least I'm awkwardly refusing to shake your hand for stupid bullshit personal reasons and not as a power play! But then you'd probably guess that by the way I continued to avoid eye contact and the scruffy, immature outfit I had chosen to dress myself in for an important meeting. In this particular case, I probably would have initially gone out without a hat and then never even noticed the "don't have anybody take his hat" power play!
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