Kiss-kiss-kiss

This is a habit of the Swiss. When you meet you have to kiss-kiss-kiss, three times (as the clever ones have figured out by now). Every time. Cheek-cheek-cheek. Where I come from we hug (ok, not everybody, but when we know each other). In every country I lived in there are different greeting-habits. Some countries shake hands, others kiss-kiss, yet others kiss-kiss-kiss, and some just hug.

Not sure about my feelings about this. On one hand it's kinda nice to kiss-kiss-kiss, the rest of me says it's a f...ing waste of time. Like tonight when I met 5 guys that I know. I had to do the greeting thing with all of them. Felt kinda weird. What's wrong with just a hug?

This is probably where my prejudice comes in. Spoken like a true foreigner :)...