p to the ffffffffffffffffff.

you know how if you're cuddling or

kissing someone and another person

walks in, you don't really feel that

awkward?

but if YOU walk in a couple, you

feel like you just got flashed?

no matter how hard i try to

remember that i never really

feel that imposed upon when

i get walked in on, i can never

remember it long enough

to not feel terribly awkward

when i interrupt some peeps.

so this happened the other

night when i went with my

friend breanne to give her

friend kelsey a reel. and

by reel i mean some

construction paper in the

shape of a reel of film

that said "you're reel great."

[she's really smart]

we knock on the door, kind of

just walk in, and interrupt a

couple. a super-entwined couple,

might i add. the girl gets

kelsey, we walk to the doorway

between the hall and living

room to chat with the reely

great girl, and chick number

one returns to her lover's embrace.

not that bad. actually felt

less awkward than i expected.

i'm totally zoned in on the

conversation between breanne

and kelsey until the word

"tickle" grabs my attention.

the chick on the couch

just said it to her boyfriend,

in the following sentence:

"sometimes it tickles more than others, and i think you're starting to figure that out."

she then went "ohp!" and

started laughing, kind of

like she realized there were

OTHER PEOPLE IN THE ROOM.

but maybe that wasn't the

reason for the ohp, because

she just kept on talking about it.

"sometimes, when you go like this..." long pause "yeah. or this."

now, i have always been

grateful for the gift of hearing,

but...

i was REALLY grateful on this

particular evening.

[because i immediately realized

the experience was perfect

fodder for my blog]

after a while, i realized

with relief that they were

talking about tickling

each other's love handles

or something, rather than

each other's tongues.

then we left.