Body Check

  There are several types of body check, and all depends what side of the perspective you find yourself on. For sake of argument I mention three important perspectives, the 'observer', 'experiencer' and the 'perpetrator' point of view.
   From the 'observer' point of view, body checks inherently could be both pleasant and unpleasant. For example, violent body checks at hockey games can be cheered by some, and booed by others. This means some fans can be categorized as 'experiencer observers', they feel real pain, frustration and anger, just as much as the body checked player. On the other hand, their counterparts cheer, rejoice and are filled with satisfaction. This attitude is inherited from ancient Rome's gladiator era, with the exception of a mortal combat. I wonder when are they going to hire real hockey players, instead of gladiators?
   Now here is another observer type of body check, a category which I find myself increasingly part of, the older I get. I practice this any time, anywhere and any circumstance! In shopping malls, before a nap and after a nap, in grocery stores, at the local pharmacy before, during and after a short rest on a chair waiting for my medicine, taking my blood pleasure measurement and so on. I body check every lady, young and... younger, short and tall, with my eyes of course. What is this,...end of life crisis? Boy, I'm afraid it became an addiction! Therapy?, no sire …a young woman for my old bones is out of question, I stick with body check! 
   So me, observing an experience in form of a body check, and performed by a 'perpetrator', in this case my doctor, is not a pleasant adventure I like to embark on. Gosh...she's got long fingers. Otherwise she is a really nice woman! Happy that it happens only ones a year! I wonder what perspective she's got, performing that duty?
   Finally, what about those idiot perpetrators, who body check Asian people on the street for Covid 19. What a bunch of losers! Way to go fighting the pandemic! I bet non of them wear a mask! And there are hundred other idiots who cheer for them! Why don't they rather go and play hockey, or some other gladiator combat game? O, I know why ...because otherwise they are wusses!