This excruciating accidental handshake is giving us so much second hand embarrassment we can’t stop watching

Ditch all of your dictionaries and throw away your thesaurus, we’ve just found the definitive definition of ‘second hand embarrassment’.

It’s the video of this excruciating accidental handshake which has just gone wildly viral on Twitter for reasons which are about to become obvious, 14 seconds you will surely never forget.

I can’t stop watching it. Such a hilarious miscalculation on a handshake pic.twitter.com/QafPBAr8YT

— Big Cat (@BarstoolBigCat) August 22, 2023

Just in case you’re interested, the man in the middle is Josh Harris, new owner of the Washington Commanders, whatever they are (we know what they are) stood in between Monday Night Football’s Joe Buck (on the right) and Troy Aikman.

And it prompted no end of very funny comments as you might imagine. Here are just 9 of them.

1.

He’s a simple man. He sees hand, he shakes hand.

— minja.eth (@minjaNFT) August 22, 2023

2.

At that point you gotta commit to the mistake. Turn and shake Troy’s hand and then walk off camera saying you got a dentist appointment https://t.co/3TwYwyj1Ck

— Mike Camerlengo (@MCamerlengo) August 22, 2023

3.

What % of the fault belongs to Buck here? He does leave that hand hanging directly in front of the guy and fully open for a handshake. I think 55% of the blame falls on his shoulders.

— Joe Osborne (@JTFOz) August 22, 2023

4.

I’ve watched it 45 times this morning. https://t.co/dwo83RK0Fa

— Jeff Darlington (@JeffDarlington) August 22, 2023

5.

Live TV is hard! pic.twitter.com/6aLgY7ndXL

— Rob Elgas (@RobElgasABC7) August 22, 2023

6.

So incredibly awkward that now I’m waiting for this type of interaction to be a plot device in an episode of Curb. https://t.co/DRfKko1WAh

— Rich Hribar (@LordReebs) August 22, 2023

7.

Aikman almost losin it by laughin is the best part

— dalyss (@dalysshanson) August 22, 2023

8.

I’d never leave the house again tbh. 😂 this is the stuff of nightmares for me https://t.co/2BiNdD4ZOy

— ‎️‍🏳️‍🌈 sunny day 🇺🇸 (@littlelostsunny) August 23, 2023

9.

i can’t watch it more than once lmao cringiest thing i’ve seen in a long time …the secondhand embarrassment is so strong because i’ve definitely done this before but never on national TV 🤣

— Zach (@zachsox) August 22, 2023

Source Twitter @BarstoolBigCat @SPLAIN_IT