He knows that he will be greeted back to the code as a returning messiah.
Mr. Martinez was found not guilty at his second trial, and was warmly greeted back in Spain on Sunday.
The victory at Cannes was the first time a Thai director had won the Palme d'Or, but Mr. Apichatpong, who turned 40 in July, was greeted back home with ambivalence by many and attacks by his fiercest critics.
From ending all meet-and-greets back in 2016 to telling fans in Melbourne that they make him "sick," he's certainly had a roller-coaster relationship with his Beliebers.
"What up, though?" he greeted back in Detroit fashion.
"What's wrong with them that they don't greet back?" she asked me.
If in the middle of your conversation, a friend of yours passes by and says "hi", greet back and introduce the shy person to your friend.
Fairly soon, Cathy is taking a ride with Raymond to the black side of town, where the two are met with suspicion, resentment, and outrage — the same kind that greets Cathy back in white Hartford: when she returns, Eleanor reports that she has been spotted strolling downtown with a black man.
Enthusiastically she greets them back in hand-drawn "Hello's!" while, at the same time, and in handy fashion, she trades each of them a thing she has found outside — a leaf, a flower, a ladybug — for the machines to which they have been glued.
When I call a former colleague months later, he greets me: "Back from the dead yet?" Oh my God.
