“ever had a tickle that just wouldn’t stop?”

[Ayla ny]

this sentence was blurted to me by a coworker the other day.

these are the responses that went through my head: “YES!!!” and “sure have! and isn’t it crazy how you don’t want it to, either?” and “yup, once those tickles get going… they have a mind of their own!” (maybe could have gotten away with that last one… but I would have been the only one who appreciated the humor in it)

what I did do: try to swallow with a REALLY dry mouth… and nod.

I’d love to hear about those moments when the rest of you have been caught off guard by ‘the word’. I know I can’t be the only one who can’t breathe for a split second when things like that are said.

 

[Swimmingbird]

I was in a musical and one of the lead actresses, beautiful red hair, great voice, very agreeable personality, comes up to me and says she has a tickle in her throat. So without thinking I said, "would you rather have a tickle on your toes?" She got a really surprised look on her face, which after I realized what I said, embarrassed me very much. But, I said it, so I tried as much as I could to stick with my guns. Gave her a smirk and raised my eyebrows, she thought I was flirting. I simply love dumb luck.

 

[luvgirlsfeet]

Yes it happened to me a few years ago, about a month before my wedding in 2001 I was sitting on the edge of the couch with my soon-to-be wife at the other end and my cousin Julie on the recliner beside the couch on my side. We were watching tv while waiting for the chinese food to be delivered that we ordered. I guess I must have drifted off to sleep because the next thing I knew my wife is on my lap tickling my ribs while Julie was tickling my feet.

I guess Julie was getting even from the last time I tickled her feet while she slept on the same couch I was sitting on in my living room. It was a good time that I wont soon forget. It seemed to last forever until the chinese food delivery driver arrived and rang the door bell
so I guess I can safely say I was "saved by the bell" lol

Steve

 

[TklDuo-Ann]

so I guess I can safely say I was "saved by the bell" lol

Funny. I'd have said that I was robbed by it. 😉

Some cute stories! As for me, I tend to not be shy about it. Most people I know are aware of my love of tickling to some degree. So, it's quite natural for them to hear me say something positive about it. But, it wasn't always like that. When I first came out about tickling, I had several occassions like these.

Ann

 

[AffectionateDan]

No WAY...!!

Funny. I'd have said that I was robbed by it. 😉

Some cute stories! As for me, I tend to not be shy about it. Most people I know are aware of my love of tickling to some degree. So, it's quite natural for them to hear me say something positive about it. But, it wasn't always like that. When I first came out about tickling, I had several occassions like these.

Ann

Are you 'out' with your family about it, Ann?

 

[Luv2Tickle69]

The word "tickle" by itself certainly does get my "antennae" bristling!!!

As for the kind of tickle that doesn't stop...sure...I've had that several times in my lifetime....especially when I began feeling those fingernails scribbling gently all over my soles!!!! Once she (whoever the she in question would be) gets started, she always finds it difficult to stop!!! LMAO!!!😀

 

[Ticklish_Cop]

So there I was...at work in a conversation with 3 of my co-workers. One female and 2 males. The first male (Male #1) was talking about reading to his kids until he falls asleep. The conversation went something like this.

Male 1: I'll just read to my kids until I fall asleep. Then I'll wake up with the book still in my hand and my son is just staring at me.

Male 2: If I fall asleep in front of my kids they start playing with my eyes. (pantomimes poking his eyelids).

Male 1: You can poke my eyes, just don't touch my feet. I can't stand having my feet touched. I get violent. And if you tickle me on the back of my leg (pointing to the back of his thigh), I get really violent. That's my worst ticklish spot right there….just like my kids. I HATE being tickled.

Female: Do you tickle your kids.

Male 1: Oh hell yeah. All the time. But they love it. They ask me to tickle them.

ME: (about to pass out)

Female: (goes on to talk about how she reads to her kids)

ME: (tries to hide the fact that he is memorized by the past conversation and tries very hard to act casually).

That conversation took place just last month. Glad I could share it here.

 

[SimplyRio]

A coworker of mine and I take occasional breaks from the madness -via inhouse IMs- by peeking at a favorite Kitty website (owners post pics of their pet felines).

She is always sending me pics of kitties with outstretched or exposed tummies, prefacing them first by typing such things as: 'I want to tickle his tummy!' or 'you just KNOW she wants her tummy tickled!' Another pic she sent me was of a kitty licking his owners' ear and the guy was obviously laughing... her comment, 'that's GOT to tickle!' Some days I'll get a series of these pics sent to me, rapid-fire... she's had to have intentionally done a search for the *t* word LOL

Yeah, Ayla, like you I just love seemingly innocuous reference made about tickling in the 'real world' I react the same way you do, too LOL careful not to reveal my secret. It makes me catch my breath for a second (did I hear that right???), gives me that warm all-over tingle, and causes me to look at that person in a whole different way heh heh heh

 

[Ayla ny]

they do seem to happen a lot at work, don’t they?!

at my last job they had a yearly auction to raise money for various projects. one of the donated prizes was an hour long massage. I had to try to keep it together (at one point I had to walk away so they couldn’t see my face) while we were browsing the prizes and one of my coworkers kept going on and on and on and on (and on) about how she would NEVER be able to get a massage… because she is WAY too ticklish for that! she would just not be able to hold still! why, the second they touched her sides… she would be through the roof!

I was in a tizzy for the rest of the day after that one!

 

[hiram]

Ayla: ...what I did do: try to swallow with a REALLY dry mouth… and nod.

I wonder when people get weird about tickling conversation if it isn't because lots of us have the same reaction.

What's the age old question? Have we gained most or lost most by having this magificent obsession? There have been any number of times when that word popped up in conversation. If it turned out to be the context we love, I have always become desparate to keep the conversation going but had no hope. My mouth goes dry and I feel like I have rubber binders tight around my tongue.

The first time I ever remember it, I was about 15. I can't exactly recall how the subject arose, but my aunt (my mother's sister) said they had three older brothers. She said every one of them loved to tickle more than the others. She said they never ever made her give up. Man o man! I wanted to ask her about that! I couldn't talk.

My wife is the only other human in my circle that knows about my tickle fetish. She knew about it before I ever told her I had it which happened something like 15 years after we were married. When she learned that the word "tickle" has such an effect on me she sort of added it to he list of ways to "tease this goofy person I'm married to."

Once I was lying on the couch. She was lying with me with her head sideways on my chest. Out of the blue she said, "Tickle." She listened as my breathing stopped and my heart started to race. She started to giggle and said it again, then again. She kept listening and then asked, "Are you alright?" It says right here I couldn't speak to answer her. She just laid there and giggled.

She only once ever teased me publically in her most evil way. We were having dinner with another couple. She told the others I like to tickle her. She emphasized the word t-i-c-k-l-e with such clarity that it was shear agony for me. I was absolutely paralyzed. She let me know she knew exactly what she was doing by touching my leg with hers. Again she used that word a couple more times. She told them how I tickle her to death and don't stop. She looked at me out of the corner of her eye that teasing way women do just to make sure I knew she was deliberately taking advantage of me. I can honestly say I loved it and hated it at the same time. I guess that's what tickling is supposed to be.

I remember that night I taught her a thing or two about how tickling is a two edged sword. I pinned her down on the bed and told her what an evil woman she was. She started laughing and giving me that lame defense that she was only kidding. I told her I was only kidding as well as I explored every square millimeter of her ribs and arm pits. Before I finished tickling her she promised she would never do that again. I told her I could make no such promise. So she said she took back her promise then.

Seriously, it wouldn't bother me if she did that to me again. It feels so fantastic to get that tickle high. She never has in public. It private it's another story. It surely wasn't the last time I ever had my way with her.

Have we gained most or lost most by having this feeling? I feel sorry for anyone that doesn't have a tickle fetish.

 

[chrisheaven]

often on the 'phone- mel will come up behind me and begin to tickle me--- most embarassing sometimes!

 

[Em Es]

Ayla, you said, "[mentions of the word TICKLE] do seem to happen a lot at work, don’t they?!"

Right before I read those words, I recalled the last time I heard tickling come up in someone else's conversation. It was at work, alright. Two secretaries, for some reason, started talking about how ticklish they are. I was a few feet away, my blood rushing - just as it is now as I read the replies to your post.

Your posts get right to the heart of what tickling means to people like us!

 

[AffectionateDan]

HEE! Fond memories!

often on the 'phone- mel will come up behind me and begin to tickle me--- most embarassing sometimes!

When I was growing up, my parents owned a drive-in hamburger restaurant, and I would do this to the girls when they were taking telephone orders sometimes... then flee as the call was coming to a close, lest I get my young ticklemonster butt pummelled by older and irate females seeking vengeance!

Thanks for the jolt down memory lane, Chris! 😀

 

[toyou444]

Since we're into "the word" and its reaction...sometimes I have a rought time when other people are tickling my kids. I just wonder if they are going to grow up to be like me?

Also, I'm like a lot of you that my face turns red as soon as I'm accused of tickling someone...but at the same time I have no problem tickling my wife and female friends in public...as long as they never let everyone know what I am doing.

~ toyou

 

[Ayla ny]

true story.

one time I was driving to a restaurant, my mother was in the front-passenger seat and my sister was in the back (my sister knows but never ever brings it up, bless her soul). well, I had a cough that just wouldn’t go away… so…. I say, “ugh! I have this itch in my throat that just won’t go away!”

my mother turns her head, looks at me dead-on, and says, “you mean a TICKLE?”

I was driving… I couldn’t fall apart… I’d rear-end someone! I just kept thinking, “does she know? is it coincidence? am I being a flake? am I being picked on?”

yet another time that I just nodded my head with a very dry mouth.

I love reading these! thank you so much for sharing them! see?! other people fall apart too!

 

[tickle_me_there]

Yep this has happened to me. Just this morning I was in my kitchen with my flatmates and their boyfriends and someone asked one of the girls why he had heard her squealing that morning. Her boyfriend explained that she had stolen the duvet and so he had gotten her back by tickling her feet. I was just putting the washing in and froze for a moment when he said that and suddenly felt exposed, even though they weren't talking to me.

I am a little nervous when these conversations arise anyway, as the girl in question, who was being tickled, happens to know about my tickle fetish. I really hope she never tells the others, as about a week ago I was messing about with my other flatmate and her boyfriend and tickled their feet. I REALLY wouldn't want them to think I did that in order to get some sexual kicks...

 

[chrisheaven]

Re: HEE! Fond memories!

When I was growing up, my parents owned a drive-in hamburger restaurant, and I would do this to the girls when they were taking telephone orders sometimes... then flee as the call was coming to a close, lest I get my young ticklemonster butt pummelled by older and irate females seeking vengeance!

Thanks for the jolt down memory lane, Chris! 😀

bet those girls just loved you doing that!! hee hee!