Massage

I recently started playing on a new team in a new country. After the first few weeks of training, my coach took me to the team masseuse. Upon arriving at the location, I was only half surprised to see the massage table set up in this woman's home living room. The experience was pretty quiet because she didn't speak much, if any, English. She massaged my sore legs for about an hour and then my coach took me home.

I couple weeks later, my coach suggested that I go back to her because my back had been bothering me. After his suggestion, he told me that she would be excited to see me because "she thinks that I'm cute." I wasn't really sure how to take that and just told myself that it was probably one of those language barrier types of situations.

I arrived at the woman's home again (this time by myself). I pointed to my lower back and explained that was where the pain was stemming from. She nodded her head as if she understood so I laid down on the table. She kept trying to say something in broken English, but I was having a very hard time understanding. After awhile, I understood that she wanted to massage my neck first. This seemed weird as I specifically said the pain was in my lower back, but maybe they do things differently in this country? After awhile she told me that I could flip back over so she could massage my back. Once I was on my stomach, she proceeded to snap my sports bra and tell me to take it off. (If you've ever been for a massage, you know that this isn't usually weird. It's very common for massages to be done in the nude.) So, I followed her instructions. The entire time the massage was going on, I was trying not to think about how my coach told me she thinks that I'm cute. I really didn't want to read too much into it.

After the massage was done, she walked towards the other room so I proceeded to sit up to put my clothes back on. As I reached for my bra, she turned back around with a box of tissues in hand. She walked over and handed me the box while I sat there topless and very uncomfortable. There was not one point during the massage where I even made one sniffle. I was of course left to think that she only handed them to me because she wanted to see me naked. I got dressed and left, never to return for another massage again.