...soooo, you're saying you like it then...? 😉
You know I can't stand it. But there's something about not being able to stand it that I'm drawn to. I think my wife, if subjected to enough sustained tickling, would probably start crying eventually; that's never happened to me. I get frantic and desperate, but not miserable. I'M COMPLICATED!
As it happens, my wife and her sister inflicted no tickling on me during this latest holiday visit. Sorry to disappoint. Only thing that happened was that, as we were staying at my in-laws' house, in the wee hours of the morning one night, I was having a dream that two women at my workplace were tickling me and my wife nudged me and woke me up. "What's so funny?" she asked.
"Wha?"
"You were laughing in your sleep."
"Oh. Oh. I was dreaming, someone was tickling me."
"They were?"
"Yeah."
Her fingertips fluttered against my side; I jerked involuntarily. "They were tickling you, huh?"
"Yeah!"
Fingers dancing across my convulsing stomach. "Well no wonder you were laughing."
"A-A-Amanda...!"
Fingers on my stomach, on my sides, on my stomach, on my sides, me writhing in the creaking bed, trying not to laugh out loud.
"Amanda, stop, you'll wake them up...!"
Fingers on my ribs, tickling tickling tickling at my ribs, my back arching sharply--
"I think
you'll wake them up," she said, a smile in her voice.
"Amanda...!!"
"I think your dream's coming true, Wade," she said, sitting up in the bed, looming over me, relishing the easy access to my twitchy tickle spots, her hands darting merrily here and there. "I think you can see the future in your dreams."
And despite my efforts to muffle them, a stream of fervent high-pitched giggles started to escape from my lips...