I have a friend that is a massage therapist and she has some really good stories, prior to switching to only working on women. She would get some pretty bad inquiry phone calls. All the characters in our society...they are just fascinating. I'm sure you've got quite a few on the job stories as well.
Your son is a riot!
I'm glad someone things so ;)
Oy, it was pretty creepy at the beginning of my private practice. The ethics and boundaries they teach you in school are nothing like the shit you have to deal with when you go out in the real world.
Good for your friend. It's a seriously emotionally demanding job, and we should only work with those we are comfortable touching. Nowadays I only work on people I know, unless it's in the clinic, where I have specified NO NEW MALE PATIENTS if I'm the only one there. They're good about that.
They are! When they aren't hurting anybody, I really appreciate the absurdity they bring. It's inspiring!
True for life in general. My first job was a cashier, and I remember clearly this fat old man that came in maybe three or four times. He had an enormous round belly barely contained by his button-down shirt and pants that were hanging on for dear life by suspenders. He had a cane and he waddled up to the cash register slowly in a sort of old gentleman way, the sort that you politely give way to. And then his benign looking wrinkled up 80-year-old face would suddenly speak the most inappropriate vulgar sentence. And I would just stand there like what the fuck just happened? Then he'd smile like he just told me that I was a polite young lady and waddle away. I take comfort in knowing that surely he is dead by now.
LMAO OMFG.
I only have acronyms for that one.