I like my tickler to…

[Ayla ny]

Wednesday morning I was sitting in a meeting and fighting boredom when a committee member, who is known to be very forgetful, was asked why he hadn’t gotten rid of a particular reminder yet. his response was, “I like my tickler to tickle me over and over again.”

yup… breathe, Tracy, breathe…

I very nearly blurted out, “ME TOO!!!”, and probably could have gotten away with it too (if I were the kind of person who could pull something like that off) because they all would have thought I was talking about reminders.

I’ve also endured conversations about how ticklish this one guy is and how his fiancé thinks it’s just a riot how he is climbing the walls if she touches his feet… been invited to pedicure parties… and had a coworker blurt out, “don’t you like feet?!”, when someone asked her why she spent so much time talking about hers.

I’ve only been working for these people for 6 months… God help me…

 

[milagros317]

“I like my tickler to tickle me over and over again.”

Wow, it must have been hard to keep a straight face upon hearing that. 😛

 

[Mimi]

I would have left a note on my chair saying "Notify my Next of Kin" and crawled under the table to die. Because if no one in the room knew before that comment was made that I was a ticklephile, my bright red face and prompt panic attack would alert them completely...lol


Mimi

 

[TklDuo-Ann]

Too bad there are so many harrassment suits these days. You could have tested the truth of his statement.

Ann

 

[AffectionateDan]

Wow, it must have been hard to keep a straight face upon hearing that. 😛

If only you KNEW how much! Hee! I'm amazed she didn't go for a ride in an ambulance because of this!

 

[stacyshippen]

It reminds me of a project I worked on some years ago...it was a large programming project using the TCL/TK language, which of course was pronounced "tickle". Months of enduring conversations peppered with the word "tickle", including being tagged for a while as the team's "tickle expert" (was I!) and fielding questions and presenting information to senior managers about TCL, drove me NUTS.

And if anyone remembers the alt.multimedia.tk forums, you can imagine the mental crosstalk that occurred when dealing with "TK" in a thoroughly non-phile manner 🙂

Years before that lovely project, I'd been assigned to write a tickler program for another group...but before I could have heart failure, they went out and purchased a solution. WHEW!

Stacy

 

[Tickler Bart]

'Tickler' At My Job . . .

The first time I ever heard the word 'tickler' regarding a 'reminder' at my job I almost had a heart attack.
This was a new thing at the time & I was not informed of the terminology.
My mind was reeling. I told several people (all women, of course) that I LOVED that word. Some of them looked at me in confusion. Others just laughed & walked away.
We still use 'ticklers' in our work & I STILL smile when I hear it. Especially when it comes from a VERY attractive woman.
Ohhh, the evil thoughts I have . . . Heh heh heh.

 

[kis123]

These stories are really funny!

 

[kis123]

BTW-Ayala,

I've been on this forum for nearly two years and I still can't hear or say the word "tickle" without anxiety. If that would've happened to me, I would've died on the spot!

 

[bratgirl365]

BTW-Ayala,

I still can't hear or say the word "tickle" without anxiety. If that would've happened to me, I would've died on the spot!

OMG! Me too! Why is that?

 

[steph]

It's common lingo where I work too. "Left message w.patient's voice mail, tickle 2 weeks for call back and/or response to contact letter..."


XOXO

 

[Em Es]

Well, this post wasn't about what I thought it would be!

But when it's Ayla ny, I always like to read it. As someone else said, such a conversation could be an opportunity to have some fun on the job, though you'd have to be careful.

Tracy, was the colleague in question the kind with whom you'd like to flirt? Was that at least part of the reason you held your breath in reaction?

 

[AffectionateDan]

Ya know, for some reason...

But when it's Ayla ny, I always like to read it. As someone else said, such a conversation could be an opportunity to have some fun on the job, though you'd have to be careful.

Tracy, was the colleague in question the kind with whom you'd like to flirt? Was that at least part of the reason you held your breath in reaction?

I kinda doubt that...

 

[Em Es]

To Dan

Dan, I know she's with you. All I meant was if she found him attractive, not that she wanted him. I hope that makes sense.

 

[korn_ste]

Can i ask a Question????
who designs all these Pictures at the bottom of the Profiles, the realistic looking HOT!!! Cartoons................ lol
anybody?.... please tell me..............

 

[ticklkitten]

Can i ask a Question????
who designs all these Pictures at the bottom of the Profiles, the realistic looking HOT!!! Cartoons................ lol
anybody?.... please tell me..............

It's the wonderfully talented Mimi and in some cases I believe Venray...

 

[golas1964]

There was a receptionist at my office who had something she called a "Tickler File" in her filing system. I'm still not completely sure what it meant, but when she mentioned it, it always got a few quiet chortles out of me. 🙂

 

[kis123]

OMG! Me too! Why is that?

I have no idea! I'm really miswired like that-been that way since I was a kid! If I see tickling in public, I nearly pass out! So much for my tough ler exterior! I'm really a tickle wimp in a ler suit! 😀

 

[steph]

That's the same one we use. I have awful carpal tunnel, so like most of the bldg I type in "tkl until the 19th."
There was this one guy Steve who ALWAYS use to write it out in its entirety "TICKLE for seven days..." I might have gotten up the nerve to ask him about it one day, but he was really skeevy~the kind of guy who always stared at all the girls and never said a word~and he's since retired...
XOXO

There was a receptionist at my office who had something she called a "Tickler File" in her filing system. I'm still not completely sure what it meant, but when she mentioned it, it always got a few quiet chortles out of me. 🙂

 

[tommytikl]

This reminds me of the phrase "tickled pink"...to mean laugh so hard or be overjoyed about something...

There was a secretary where I used to work that used that tickled pink phrase all the time...

Like, "Oh, I was tickled pink when John(her boss) threw me that surprise party"

or, "Oh, I was tickled pink when I heard about my nephews good news"

She used that phrase all the time and it drove me nuts!!!

 

[Ayla ny]

you know what really threw me? since I have been going to gatherings and stuff, I feel SO much more comfortable talking about tickling that I really did almost blurt out that, “me too!”, thing! it very nearly made it out of that mental starting gate and past my lips. I found that to be a really good and really scary thing all at the same time.

Em Es, I think that Dan’s comment is coming from knowing me just a little too well. unless I know that they ‘get it’ I tend to fall completely apart and/or play the “cold fish” (my ex-husband’s favorite term) to be very sure that I will not have to deal with the whole ‘how tickling makes me feel’ thing. trying to make it playful at work has led me into a couple of very uncomfortable spots before. one that I posted about a while back.

this was most definitely a case of ‘the word’ (and it’s context) catching my ear.

(but geeze… a person should not be made to hear and withstand such things!)

 

[Ayla ny]

This reminds me of the phrase "tickled pink"...to mean laugh so hard or be overjoyed about something...

There was a secretary where I used to work that used that tickled pink phrase all the time...

Like, "Oh, I was tickled pink when John(her boss) threw me that surprise party"

or, "Oh, I was tickled pink when I heard about my nephews good news"

She used that phrase all the time and it drove me nuts!!!

tommy, it's just like that, AND the whole, "I have a tickle in my throat", thing! when someon says that to me, I just can't help but think, "I'd rather have a tickle ON my thoat..."!