hopefulscrambl
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I put this in the overheard tickling thread, but it was interesting enough I thought it was worth putting here.
So, this was with a group of people in the city, all of whom were of the fairly nerdy type. They were also, how shall I put this politely, the kind of social group that didn't really know many people outside of that group, and thus had sank so far into a web of arcane 10 year old in-jokes and references that they might as well be talking a different langauge. I was one of the people they did know outside that group, so I sometimes ended up at their social events and spent the evening trying and failing to figure out what was going on. Really weird experience, to be honest, but I did get this story at least.
So, this was at a picnic, which I'd been invited to. It was summer and we were out at a picnic. A guy called Mike was currently talking - he was a pretty big guy, by gamer standards at least, and was one of the most extroverted of the group. Lying on the grass next to him was a woman I'll call Zoe. Short and skinny, with long red hair and glasses, in a tie-dye dress and currently barefoot. Mike had gone into a fairly standard monologue the last game he'd played, game design and how it compared to previous installments, with Zoe lying there cloudgazing and not paying much attention. Then suddenly, completely unprompted and without missing a beat, he grabbed Zoe's ankle. With a single quick movement he pulled it into his lap, held it still, and began tickling her foot.
The startled Zoe instantly went from dreaminess to snorts and squeals of laughter, trying to wiggle free or pry his hand off her ankle. However, as mentioned, he was one of the physically strongest people there, and she was one of the weakest. So it soon became clear she was just getting tickled and there was nothing she could do about it, and she quickly gave up in favor of writhing on the ground with her face in her hands, laughing hysterically and whining at Mike to stop. The weird thing is, Mike didn't acknowledge it. No teasing or jokes, no playful smirk or anything, he didn't even look at or respond to her. He just kept on talking about enemy AIs and progreamming tricks in exactly the same tone of voice, with everyone else in the group just nodding along and commenting like he wasn't physically holding a thrashing, pleading young woman still and tickling her senseless the whole time.
This went on for a weirdly long time - like, a good 40 seconds, which for an playful vanilla foot tickle is a very long time - with Zoe's pleading getting increasingly frantic and near the end bordering on outright begging, all to Mike's total lack of acknowledgement. Then, just as abruptly, he apparently decided that she'd suffered enough and let her go with no more comment than when he started. Zoe took a moment to catch her breath, got out a few last laughs, and then just went back to cloudwatching as if nothing had happened. No comment on the tickle torture from either - she didn't even move her feet away from him. He just continued the monologue, she went back to looking at the clouds, picnic continued. There had been occasional minor tickles in the group, like with most social groups, but nothing like that before or after. I assume it's one of those things would have made perfect sense if I'd been at Comicon 2021 with them, but as is I still have no idea what unwritten rule Zoe accidentally violated to warrent this sudden tickle attack.
It's still one of the most bizarre ticklings I've seen - the total lack of acknowledgement from anyone that this poor girl was getting full on tickle tortured made it almost surreal, and my general lack of understanding only made it weirder.
So there you go! An odd little tickling mystery from my past.
So, this was with a group of people in the city, all of whom were of the fairly nerdy type. They were also, how shall I put this politely, the kind of social group that didn't really know many people outside of that group, and thus had sank so far into a web of arcane 10 year old in-jokes and references that they might as well be talking a different langauge. I was one of the people they did know outside that group, so I sometimes ended up at their social events and spent the evening trying and failing to figure out what was going on. Really weird experience, to be honest, but I did get this story at least.
So, this was at a picnic, which I'd been invited to. It was summer and we were out at a picnic. A guy called Mike was currently talking - he was a pretty big guy, by gamer standards at least, and was one of the most extroverted of the group. Lying on the grass next to him was a woman I'll call Zoe. Short and skinny, with long red hair and glasses, in a tie-dye dress and currently barefoot. Mike had gone into a fairly standard monologue the last game he'd played, game design and how it compared to previous installments, with Zoe lying there cloudgazing and not paying much attention. Then suddenly, completely unprompted and without missing a beat, he grabbed Zoe's ankle. With a single quick movement he pulled it into his lap, held it still, and began tickling her foot.
The startled Zoe instantly went from dreaminess to snorts and squeals of laughter, trying to wiggle free or pry his hand off her ankle. However, as mentioned, he was one of the physically strongest people there, and she was one of the weakest. So it soon became clear she was just getting tickled and there was nothing she could do about it, and she quickly gave up in favor of writhing on the ground with her face in her hands, laughing hysterically and whining at Mike to stop. The weird thing is, Mike didn't acknowledge it. No teasing or jokes, no playful smirk or anything, he didn't even look at or respond to her. He just kept on talking about enemy AIs and progreamming tricks in exactly the same tone of voice, with everyone else in the group just nodding along and commenting like he wasn't physically holding a thrashing, pleading young woman still and tickling her senseless the whole time.
This went on for a weirdly long time - like, a good 40 seconds, which for an playful vanilla foot tickle is a very long time - with Zoe's pleading getting increasingly frantic and near the end bordering on outright begging, all to Mike's total lack of acknowledgement. Then, just as abruptly, he apparently decided that she'd suffered enough and let her go with no more comment than when he started. Zoe took a moment to catch her breath, got out a few last laughs, and then just went back to cloudwatching as if nothing had happened. No comment on the tickle torture from either - she didn't even move her feet away from him. He just continued the monologue, she went back to looking at the clouds, picnic continued. There had been occasional minor tickles in the group, like with most social groups, but nothing like that before or after. I assume it's one of those things would have made perfect sense if I'd been at Comicon 2021 with them, but as is I still have no idea what unwritten rule Zoe accidentally violated to warrent this sudden tickle attack.
It's still one of the most bizarre ticklings I've seen - the total lack of acknowledgement from anyone that this poor girl was getting full on tickle tortured made it almost surreal, and my general lack of understanding only made it weirder.
So there you go! An odd little tickling mystery from my past.
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Thanks for sharing your experience here. 
