The Ticklish Bitch #24
(Published on Wednesday, June 2, 2004)
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Here is another fond memory of my cousin Ileen (The Ticklish Bitch 13, 15, 16, and 21). This time, it involved my friend Tom  (the tickler in The Ticklish Bitch 3, 6, 9, and 11).  This happened several years ago, but worth remembering and repeating.

I was still in college and living at home, and Tom was my friend from the neighborhood.  Ileen was also single, in college, and living at home at the time, and was visiting me that day.

Ileen had never met Tom until that day, but it seemed that she took a liking to him (later, she admitted to me that she was a bit attracted to him; she was about a year older than him). The three of us were in my room. Tom and I were sitting on the floor while playing a TV video game, and Ileen was laying on my bed right above where we were sitting.  I don't remember exactly what game we were playing, but I do remember Ileen wearing a t-shirt and shorts and being barefoot (she had taken her shoes off).

No one else was home, and so we managed to find some wine coolers and help ourselves to them while we all talked. The wine and good humor turned this informal afternoon gathering into an amusing little party of sorts. Tom and I were cracking jokes, making Ileen roar with laughter.

At times, when we Tom and I were being both witty and silly, she'd give us playful little kicks to the back of our heads with her foot (something she had done to me on various occasions while we were growing up, when we were seated similarly). By the third kick, I gave Ileen's foot a little tickle, and she pulled her foot back and screamed a little "no!"

Tom picked up on this and said, "Oooh, you're ticklish, huh?" and grabbed Ileen's foot and tickled it.

This time, Ileen screamed much louder.  "NOOO, no no STOOOP, DOOON'T!" Tom was obviously delighted with her reaction and held on to her foot (being much stronger than she was) and continued to tickle. "Get OOFFFF, HAHAHAHA!!!!" Ileen begged. One thing about Ileen was that whenever she was being tickled, her response was to try to tickle back as a defense, rather than wiggle her way free.  But usually, and this time, too, she was too weak from the tickling to really have any effect as a tickler herself. I grabbed the other foot and we both made our way onto the bed, trapping Ileen, who continued to try to tickle us back, unsuccessfully.

I lay on top of Ileen and smothered her, and then noticed that Tom worked his way up to her ribcage.  "No, PLEEEASE, GET OFF!  HAHAHAHAHAAA!!!" Ileen screamed. As Ileen was flailing on the bed, she managed to break her legs free and kick Tom. That's when he sat on her legs and got a firm lock on her feet. Ileen's bare soles were helplessly trapped in Tom's strong grip, and he slowly but firmly began to tickle them. As soon as his fingers touched her bare, fleshy soles, Ileen went wild. "Oh DAMMMMN YOU, HAHAHAHA, STOOOOOOP." She was so ticklish at this point that she would convulse into helpless laughter if we touched her anywhere. But Tom just concentrated on her feet, and Ileen's laughter became more desperate and high-pitched. I looked at her face. It was beet-red, and she was panting. "STOOOOP IT, HAHAHAHA, GET OFF, HAHAHAHAAAA," was all she could say.

At that point, we stopped, and we were laughing ourselves. Ileen laughed for a good 20 seconds afterward, caught her breath, and then just said, "Now stop."

Actually, the whole incident didn't last more than about a minute and a half, but the details are so memorable that it felt like a whole afternoon had gone by.

Tom and I went back to finish our game. We teased Ileen about her ticklishness a couple of times. She never responded. As ticklish as she was, she never verbally admitted to it or used the "t" word. The only other instance is that later that afternoon, when Tom got close to her feet once, she pulled them back quickly, thinking that he was going to tickle her again (though he didn't).

Quite a memory!  And one of the most amusing tickling escapades involving Ileen that I can remember.