When A Lick's Not As Good As A Promise
     For me the following story is not about the story, but how behavior this weird gets started. 
     A Houston police officer pulled over a female motorist and then asked to lick her feet or in lieu of that, she could give him her underwear.
     Okay, strange, but he did ask and he did give her a choice. At least he was reasonable and polite. It could have been worse for the motorist.
     However it gets a little sticker as he said that if she would permit him to lick her feet or leave with her underwear he would ignore the marijuana paraphernalia in her car. Evidently, when she refused he changed him mind about the paraphernalia and let her go.
     He was arrested, charged with 'Official oppression,' and sentenced to one year in jail.
     So what prompts a guy to try something this bizarre? Had he tried it before with some success? Are there some ladies out there saying, "You mean all I had to do was say, 'No?'"
     At least the guy was polite.
     But some questions do spring to mind.
     Like where did he learn that he liked licking feet? I mean, that's not something a person would accidentally do and say, "Wow, that's neat, I'd like to do that again."
     And why the feet?
     Was he torn between what he really wanted to lick and what he thought he could get permission to lick?
     But to trade a lick for underwear? What's that about?
     To me, how something this bizarre gets started is a conundrum. It reminds me of a number of early Central and South American tribes who discovered that the secretions of certain frogs would kill other humans, or animals. So they started smearing some of this secreted stuff on their arrows to improve the success rate of their hunting. They also found out that a small amount was hallucinogenic and would give them visions and a generally happy time. 
     So imagine when the first guy licks a frog (And that brings up a whole set of new questions), and falls over dead. Is the reaction of the rest of the tribe to look at their dead friend and say, "Wow, I need to try that?" It's hard to imagine. 
     Then after four or five people die, one person only has the nerve to do a little lick, and instead of dying has a vision and exclaims, "Wow, you need to try this!" So how many people died before they figured out the difference between a lethal lick and a vision lick? Maybe that's why many of those tribes just disappeared.
     Like I said, to me it's a conundrum.