self-tickling machine

part of the cerebellum in the brain is responsible for blocking the response to a self-tickle; in other words if you know its going to happen and that you have total control over the tickling, it just does not invoke the giggling or laughing response of being tickled by another. children do not even have to be physically touched – their mother or father just needs to approach them with wiggling fingers and say “going to tickle you” – to evoke a healthy response.

this machine is attached to your chair (office, home, car – perhaps not!) and it will be cranked manually by yourself when you sit down, in the manner of one of those wind-up radios. however, it is computer programmed to set in motion the tickling process at a random time, in a random manner and a random level of pressure. the life like leather covered hands have fingers that move in, dare I say, a spidery kind of movement and are accompanied by a manic voice which can be programmed to say whatever takes your fancy “ it’s the feet, next”. the anticipation of not knowing when the tickling will commence will heighten the sense of excitement and when the great hulking creakin’ machine is set in motion by the computer, it can be ceased at any time by depressing the red button marked STOP if you can reach it that is.