Jerry: I know, you told me you like her, everything is going good.

George: No everything is not going good. I’m very uncomfortable. I have no power. I mean, why should she have the upper hand. Once in my life I would like the upper hand. I have no hand— no hand at all. She has the hand; I have no hand. How do I get the hand?

Jerry: We all want the hand. Hand is tough to get. You gotta get the hand right from the opening.
***
GEORGE: Jerry, let me tell you something, “A man without hand is not a man.” I got so much hand I’m coming out of my gloves.

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NOEL (GEORGE’S GIRL): I … am breaking up … with you!
GEORGE: You can’t break up with me. I’ve got hand.

***

He likes me. I kinda like him. He likes me. We kiss. I dont like him. He texts. I text. We kiss. I like him. We e-mail. I kinda like him. I text. He doesnt respond for two days. All of a sudden I like him.

Exactly.

Im not a game player, but was George Costanza right? Is “having hand” in the beginning stages of dating important? Do I like “him” because he is playing it cool, possibly dating others…obtaining “hand” by abstaining from contact for a few days. Or is it something else? Is he just as unsure about me as I am about him? Does our interest in one another resemble a set of pistons, as one rises the other mechanically falls? Or do I really just like him, or for that matter just dont like him? Questions. Hmmmm. I dont know, but I do know that I have been thinking about it…and well, him, so I guess there’s that…whatever that is. And I think (for me) that’s a lot….

Exactly.