Has This Happened in Your School?

[WayTooD]

take mine for free

Ummmm... Yes, please?

 

[TicklishHope]

Ummmm... Yes, please?

ok lol

 

[toyou444]

I actually pulled the survey thing off once...I'm ashamed, er proud to admit.

My sophmore year of college I had to give a prepared speech on the topic of my choice. I chose to speak on comedy...what made people laugh. As part of my research I gave out a two page survey asking what kind of things made people laugh (slapstick, word play, puns, etc) and one of the questions was "Does tickling make you laugh?" I handed out the survey to everyone in the class and to a few freinds also.

The vast majority answered yes to the tickling question, but two girls in particular did not. One I had met freshman year and the other I had known since we were in high school.

The new girl was in my dorm room not long after and I thanked her for filling out the survey but told I was disappointed that she lied about the tickling answer. I knew she was ticklish (I'd seen her bf tickle quite often) and I also thought she rather enjoyed tickling other people too (I post that story another day). She said she didn't lie. She WAS ticklish but that it didn't make her laugh. It made her squirm and scream and make funny noises, but not laugh. So, as we were sitting next to each other, I tried to tickle her...and she giggled! LOL! So I called her a liar again and she tried to tickle me...which led to me curling up into a ball to protect myself and tickling her back for a few seconds.

The girl from high school I simply called out and made her admit she was ticklish and laughed when tickled...that was an easy one! I should add she was another girl who seemed to like tickling/being tickled more than the average person but I obviously never spoke with about it.

No one had a problem with the survey as it was for class, and I think I just threw them away not that long ago...I came across them in an old box and decided it was time to let it go! LOL!

~ toyou

~ toyou

 

[drew70]

You know what? I'm a little surprised at some of the responses in this thread. Now, the key fact of the matter is that we have very limited information. I have limited information and so do you. And yet there are people here who, based on that limited information, are willing to say that they know for a fact that the women who complain are having silly overreaction or, worse yet, that their reaction represents what's wrong in society today. Now, be clear: I'm admitting my information is limited too. I wouldn't for one second suggest that there's enough evidence in the snippet above to lock the guy up for sex crimes. But to me it's ludicrous to be dismissive of the complaint and not at least see a fair possibility that something was going wrong here. And also, realize this: A college campus is not just another public space. A college campus does, for legitimate reason, exercise a degree of protectiveness over its clientele. In a big city like New York you don't gain entrance to most college campuses at all without either a college ID card or a very good reason to be visiting. Elsewhere, it's easier to get in, but you go asking 18-year-old women on campus questions about their feet, you damn well better expect to be questioned.

You know what? I'm a little surprised at this response to some of the responses here. Sure, there's limited information. But isn't that true of any story we read about? When the information is limited (and it always is) one simply taylors one's comments to the information that has been presented. There is no mention of assault. There's no mention of coercion. There's no mention of anything remotely sexual in nature. Since there is no mention of this man reneging on his deal, it's reasonable to assume that these women accepted the money he offered. I don't see the problem. I'm not saying there isn't one. I'm saying that there is nothing in that police warning to give any cause for concern nor any justification for their involvement.

But what I find most disturbing is the notion that because these women felt enough discomfort to go to the police, it's justification for investigation. Unless a crime has been witnessed, or activity that at least appears criminal, there's no reason to go to the police, simply because one is uncomfortable.