Have you ever been happily embarrassed? Where you feel undignified but in front of someone you trust, but closer to them afterwards – and glad when you look back on it? I had decided to embarrass Tom like that. We had done some pretty daring and embarrassing things with each other before, each of us equally so. This warm evening I had carefully planned some games and dares that, if I got it right, would have me in control and Tom doing the embarrassing forfeits. It would be fun for us both, of course, but at the end of the day, he would be mine to toy with.
“Let’s play a game!” I said. I tried to make it sound like I had just had an idea. “Let’s take it in turns to throw a ping pong ball into a cup with water in. I’ve seen it on the internet it looks pretty hard. They do it as trick shots but we can just do straight forward throws.”
“Oh yeah, I’ve seen videos with those” said Tom. “Vai, it’s amazing what people manage with enough time”.