Creepy

Two weeks ago I visited a friend's church. I had the bad luck to sit behind a couple - seemed to be married to each other and have children on the same pew - and the man, while seeming to pay attention to the service, continually stroked his wife's hair, shoulders, neck and up and down her arm.

Then today, at my regular church, a man, woman and presumably their teenage son (big and almost as tall as the man) were three or four pews in front of me. The man kept his hand on his son's shoulder and patted, scratched, smoothed and rubbed - all while seeming to be enthralled in the sermon.

What's the deal? Is the stroker proclaiming "possession" of the strokee? Ewwww.