If I may:
A few years back my tickling interests were limited to a handful of videotapes purchased really late at night from seedy stores on the far side of town. The occasional magazine would be picked up as well, depending on how "fake" the pictures on the cover looked. I did not have internet at the time, so only a few photos and video clips remained on my harddrive from earlier. All of this material went into the bottom drawer of my dresser, beneath my dress socks (it's difficult to sleep on a mattress when the VHS case for Tied & Tickled, Volume 4 is digging into your back).
Anyway, one day a buddy was meeting me at my apartment so that we could go rollerblading (college season had just begun, which meant warm weather and women in shorts and sports bras walking or running around campus). I ducked into the bathroom to relieve myself of a Mountain Dew, and when I came out, there is my buddy, holding one of my VHS tapes. "I was looking for a thicker pair of athletic socks" he told me.
The most embarassing moment in my life, without a doubt. I played it off the best I could, and we hit the campus sidewalks. A few weeks later I met him and a few friends at a local sports bar to watch a Lions game. While we were waiting for the game to start we asked the waitress for QB1 units. For those who don't know, QB1 is a device/system that lets the user compete in a variety of events, from guessing the next play from the big game or answer trivia questions. It also features a unit-to-unit text mode. As soon as I fired up my QB1, a text rolls across my screen.
Tickle, tickle.
The rest of the night was an impossible attempt at focusing on the Lions game.
