A Tickle Cell in the US Military: Part 1

‘He seemed … shocked. He was like, “I don’t know how this came about or why, but I have to tell you that you are no longer to be tickled on film in the barracks”.’

Note: Names and certain identifying details have been changed to protect the privacy of individuals in this story.

Spending four weeks in lockdown has you doing some strange things. For me, it was sorting through old hard drives I thought I’d lost. On one of those drives was a folder called “Tickled 2”, full of footage of a documentary sequel that never …