#52. Tingle-Touch

I’ve only ran into this twice, but apparently some people have an instantaneous tingle-reaction when I touch them.  I probably would have run into it a few more times if I didn’t stop touching people all together.  It was probably 2008, I was working at a place called Teleresources.  It isn’t there anymore, but it was next to the O’reilleys Autoparts on Superior Street.  Anyways, we would make our phone calls selling Auto memberships or whatever, and eventually we’d all file out of the building for our smoke break.  There was a guy about to bump into me, he was short and skinny, I didn’t know his name, but his face is burned into my mind.  As he was about to bump into me I put my hand on his shoulder, to make him aware I was there and to sort of redirect him and myself, and he recoiled instantly.  “What did you just do to me?”  he exclaimed, as he looked at me with fear in his eyes, clutching his shoulder.   I kept my hand floating there in the air and said, “I didn’t do anything, I just put my hand on your shoulder.”  He saw that I wasn’t holding anything, and we talked about how strange it was for a minute.  He told me that as soon as my hand made contact, he felt this deep tingling sensation where I put my hand.  I went on to my smoke break and he went back inside.  I watched him for the remainder of the shift, trying to see if he was on some drug or something, but I got no impression he wasn’t in his right mind, so what happened?  This wasn’t the first time, there was a similar incident when I was younger, but it’s too hard for me to remember the details.  It gave me a permanent hesitance towards just about any form of touch, and in 2008 I was in a time of my life where I was trying to rekindle some confidences, touching being one, but that day at Teleresources kindof confirmed I had a reason to be more concerned about who I touch than most, so to this day I have a difficult time putting my hands on anybody.