A friend of mine is an trained acrobat. He is well-built, as he often works base. You know when you see acrobats standing on top of each others shoulders, three-high, and you wonder how the guy on the bottom can support them? Well, he’s the guy on the bottom.<\/p>\n
I, on the other hand, am not a trained acrobat.<\/p>\n
I was with him once, when another acrobat that I didn’t know particularly well came up to us. She asked him about a gig. He explained he was unavailable then, and I joked that it was no problem as I would take his place. As we laughed, she briefly grasped me tightly, but warmly, by the upper-arm, and then excused herself went off to find another acrobat.<\/p>\n
It all seemed very friendly, until I noticed a few seconds later that I could still feel where she had grasped me – she had pushed her thumb in harder than you might expect.<\/p>\n
I realised she wasn’t just being friendly. She was surreptitiously testing my biceps to check my acrobatic credentials. <\/p>\n
I felt slightly violated! I had just been evaluated like a piece of meat… and clearly found wanting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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