Ok, fill in the blank...
NEVER tickle someone when they are _______
No doubt about this one. I don’t care who you are or how much I’d like you to get your hands on me in the proper venue, NEVER tickle anyone when they are STRETCHING. And especially if… (well, here’s the story)
Last week, there I was at the gym stretching (hamstrings) on an elevated stretching rail. I was completely in my zone, stretching deeper and deeper, at my max totally on the edge of discomfort. Suddenly, I feel fingers spider up my sides from behind me.
I’ve never had that happen as most people realize it's a really stupid thing to do. I actually felt something slightly pull and I fell to the ground worrying that I just may have hurt myself. As I turned with my “What the Hell?” disgusted face to scold whoever was stupid enough to try that, it actually turned into “WHAT THE PHUCK!!?!!!!!?!!!!!!?!!!!!!”. It was some GUY with a stupid creepy grin on his face.
I lit into him big time. “WHAT THE PHUCK ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT? ARE YOU STUPID!?!?!?”.
Sensing my anger, he was clearly uncomfortable and tried to come up with something and said : “Sorry, I thought you were someone else.”
Yeah right, I thought to myself. As seconds went by, I could feel my blood pressure elevating the more I thought about it. I was absolutely SEEETHING!
I replied : “Tell you what, you creepy little bastard. Just so we understand each other, touch me again in any manner at all ever again and I’m going to RIP YOUR PHUCKING HEAD OFF!”
By now, I had the attention of some of the staff and other friends that I know at the gym. I’m a very mild mannered and easy going guy (most of us endurance athletes are), so it took many of them by surprise to hear me go off like that.
But besides the obvious fact that I was disgusted by a guy trying something like that, there was also that fact that I commit a lot of time training and trying to remain injury free ALL YEAR for my type of injury prone athletic events and don’t need some idiot putting me on the sidelines with an injury over something STUPID like that!
At least the “slight pull” I felt didn’t turn into anything.
So please take my advice. NEVER tickle someone when they are STRETCHING.