Today I embarrassed myself in front of my CEO!

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I had a job interview with a CEO, in person, despite COVID. I was super nervous, as usual. Maybe even more than normal, because I really wanted this job. I tried to calm myself down but by the time the interviewer showed up I could feel my heartbeat in my throat. He walked down the stairs towards me, in his nice suit, but stopped halfway down. I figured the interview would take place upstairs, so I met him. And as I was walking up the stairs towards him, he put his arm up.. and his elbow out. I suppose it could have only meant two things. It could have meant (A) ‘Please take my arm, milady, so I can escort you to the room as if we’re strolling down the promenade together’, or (B) ‘Please give me an elbow bump, since we can’t shake hands’, which is really not an uncommon gesture at all in the Netherlands. So what did I do? Yes, I went with option A and I eagerly locked arms with this strange man that I’d never met before in my life as if saying ‘Yes, good sir, let’s go for that stroll’. And then we just stood there! Arm in arm, halfway up the stairs, sheepishly staring at each other. I wanted the earth to swallow me whole. I just didn’t know what to do next and I don’t think he’d fully understood what’d happened, so neither of us moved. When he’d finally gathered his senses, he said ‘I eh.. meant to give you an elbow-bump?’, after which I quickly put as much distance between us as I could and mumbled ‘Right! Right, yes, that makes much more sense.