A few weeks ago my Friend John C. & I we're talking about how great it would be to get a massage after seeing a massage place in the mall we we're in. Not having much money we quickly dismissed the idea. But I was telling him how great it'll be to find some cheap message place in Indonesia where Ruth & I will be!!!! :)
Yesterday John sent me this forward email from Nate & Jewel Horling, missionaries with NTM in Indonesia. It's a must read! It's SO funny!
Today, I used a gift certificate that I got last month and went and got a 45 minute "Imagination" massage. Boy, was I in for a treatment! The spa place said this massage didn't use oil as it was all about the technique.
I was shown into the massage room and told to lay on my stomach and get comfortable, the girl told me to take a deep breath and she would begin. She then proceeded to karate chop me from shoulder to feet as well as my arms and hands for 10 minutes! She had put a thin blanket over me and must not have noticed me holding my breath as she slapped me for 10 minutes. I was getting all sweaty underneath the blanket and thought I was soon going to be coughing up blood. On my arms she kept chopping my funny bone and that did not feel good.
Finally the karate chopping stopped right before I thought I was going to pass out, and then she started pinching from above my heel all the way up to my thigh (I had walked up 3 hills this morning and I thought she was going to give me a muscle cramp!). I was just beginning to relax and enjoy the spa, 25 minutes into it when she began with the karate chopping again for another 10 minutes.
Finally the karate chopping stopped right before I thought I was going to pass out, and then she started pinching from above my heel all the way up to my thigh (I had walked up 3 hills this morning and I thought she was going to give me a muscle cramp!). I was just beginning to relax and enjoy the spa, 25 minutes into it when she began with the karate chopping again for another 10 minutes.
I definitely had to use my "imagination" to help me get through this one - like I will never get mixed up with the mafia as this is probably how they would beat me up without any outward signs of a beating (I know too many books) or maybe this is an ancient Javanese technique for tenderizing a person before they ate them... (ok, just kidding!).
Nate is convinced that these girls that give massages have never been practiced on or practice on cadavers - pain must be the game!
In His Service,
Nate & Jewel Horling
Nate & Jewel Horling
We are definitely reconsidering getting a message in Indonesia....
~Ben
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