Gary and I are pretty grabby with each other, which is strange because I’m not physical with anyone else. I’m not a big hugger.
I didn’t realize how much time we spent nose-booping or hair-ruffling until the covid kept us away from each other.
We have now established a new tradition to take the place of our nightly goodnight kiss: the nightly goodnight baboon butt rub. We stand on opposite sides of the hallway in the doorways of our respective rooms. Then we face away from each other, back into the hallway until our butts meet, then spend some time rubbing our butts against each other.
Every night the butt rub takes a different tone. Some nights it’s a big rumbly rub fest, some nights it’s a perfunctory bump. Last night there was a repetitive thrusting quality that reminded me of early sex, when you both have your own rhythm going, and one person’s on the out-step when the other’s expecting the in-step.
I think I might miss the butt-bumping when life goes back to normal.
This disease has made life so weird, and yet can you imagine if you never had to evolve the butt-bumping ritual? I'm not a big silver linings person, but (hee hee, but)....
Posted by: Allison | May 20, 2020 at 01:46 PM
Allison - I like it better now than the perfunctory kiss. It’s a keeper.
Posted by: TheQueen | May 20, 2020 at 09:42 PM
Honestly, I think it's the ridiculous bits of marriage that are some of the very best. :-)
(and perfunctory kisses are not my favorites,anyway. In preference, give me something where both people are actually paying attention, please. Or full-contact snuggling with whatever happy neurochemicals it produces. Or, apparently, potentially baboon-butt-rubbing...)
Posted by: KC | May 21, 2020 at 12:21 AM
KC - I’d rather have NO kiss than a perfunctory kiss.
Posted by: TheQueen | May 21, 2020 at 07:08 PM
YEP. (unless really starved for physical contact, probably; there *might* be situations where a perfunctory kiss beats out no kiss. But... I do not believe I have run into those situations yet.)
Posted by: KC | May 22, 2020 at 12:25 PM
KC - I was just telling Gary all the things I will do to him when he’s better.
Posted by: ThrQueen | May 22, 2020 at 08:41 PM
Is he hiding behind a fortress of shoes under the bed yet? :-)
Posted by: KC | May 24, 2020 at 01:06 PM
KC - nope
Posted by: TheQueen | May 24, 2020 at 05:17 PM
Best. Post. Ever.
Posted by: Lynn | May 26, 2020 at 10:23 AM
Lynn - the last time you said that was on the planned Parenthood March post ghost-written by my Cheeto necklace, in which I soiled myself publicly.
Posted by: TheQueen | May 27, 2020 at 05:51 PM