198? T.E.N.S. in the Rain .........................................................



Electrifying it was.


A chronic sufferer from assorted back pains am I. Brought about perhaps by to much shifting of too much stuff that was too heavy. No matter.


My former maiden had been prescribed a TENS machine by her doctor. She'd had back pains too. TENS? "TiddlyElectronicNeuroStimulus" or something like that.


Anyway, her back was OK at the time described but mine was giving me a hard time. So I was wearing it.


Just clipped on my belt, with a couple of electrodes stuck on my back where I thought they'd do the most good. Crank it up to a healthy tingle and off you go. If it feels good, go for it.


I was at work on dayshift. Rain was pouring down. Said device was doing its thing - tingling nicely. I was walking about, pretty well soaked. I heard "Maintenance from Control!" on the radio in my parka pocket.


I took the radio out and thumbed the switch ............................... @#@$%?**$#!


Radio with healthy big battery.... TENS machine squirting impulses into my lower back ... wet hand .... away I went!.


Felt like I'd been hooked up to a wall socket. I started with a goodly imitation, I suppose, of Saint Vitus' Dance. All focussed in the kiney area.


Amazing! Indescribable! Definitely not an experiment to repeat. Sometime - doubtless mere seconds later, my thumb came off the radio's switch and my writhing stopped.