Spa = Torture Tub

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I understand that tactile sensitivity may be an issue for aspies. At first I thought I had escaped this one, but then I remembered about spa's *shudder*

Most people seem to love spa's and they are seen as a luxury. As you know, they position themselves so that the jets of water hit their body, allegedly giving them a massage. However if I do that, it creates a horrible itchy sensation for me where the jet hits me. The effects starts mild and becomes progressively worse with time to the point of being unbearable.

So any time I am obliged to enter a spa, I feel like I am the assistant in a magicians show, you know the trick where the assistant goes in the box and the magician puts swords into the box at all different angles. And then I have to contort my body to avoid being struck by the swords (jets of water).

If I ever want to change my occupation to catburglar, then I suppose all this spa practise will allow me to get through the field of criss-crossed laser beams without touching any of the lasers and setting the alarm off. On second thought, those are only fictional security systems depicted in movies, so the only bloody use for spa's in my opinion is if I want to become an actor in some cheesy hollywood movie about a suave catburglar.

So who is with me on this one? Spa = Torture Tub, yea or nay?

Lol, I always wondered why people enjoyed those things. Those jets are too damn powerful. I think the itchyness is from the chemicals in the spa.

Yes, much too powerful! For me, the itchiness is definitely caused by the jets of water not chemicals because if I am careful to stay away from the jets, I can be in the water without feeling itchy.

I'm with you all the way! Itchy sensation? Yup. Until it comes to the point when the itchy-ness turns into pure pain. Torture tub. Mhm.

I looooove hot tubs, but i agree, the water jets are a bit much. I just either "float" in the center or sit between the jets so i can enjoy the hot water.

Yeah the hot water is nice. My ideal spa / hot tub would have bubbles instead of the jets. Little holes on the bottom that release tiny bubbles of air to make me feel lighter and float better. That would be good. Actually I have been in a spa that has such bubbles in addition to the jets, but it was not possible to leave the bubbles on while turning the jets off.

The other advantage of having holes at the bottom that release air bubbles is that when one of your rival gangsters shows up totally unexpected with a Tommy Gun in his hand, ready to blow you out of the water (literally) for cutting him out of a drug deal, you can duck underwater and with all the air action in the water it will be white so he will not see you below the surface. Then you breathe by putting your mouth over one of those air bubble holes, and stay hidden underwater until he leaves!

hehehehe very funny, probably wouldn't work though 'cause the holes are so tiny and who knows what's in those bubbles

Well, I was not going to admit this, but seeing as you said that, I did actually try breathing through the air bubble holes in that spa that had both the bubbles and the jets, and there was just enough air to breathe, which is a damn good thing because the reason I was doing it was... well you see this was when I tried being a metrosexual for a while, but unfortunately I caught the attention of my beefy body-builder neighbor Mitch who apparently was (1) gay; (2) without a man-friend currently; and (3) unable to tell the difference between a gay and a metrosexual, and so there I was, holding myself underwater breathing through these bubble holes while Mitch the body-builder, coated in olive oil and wearing nothing but a towel, stalked around the spa like a hungry T-Rex...

I know it's horrible, but I'm laughing out loud at the thought of that happening to you! Apparently not all gay men are sensitive...