McSpicyphobia
Monday, October 29th, 2007I know that traumatic experience can cause people to have phobias of the things that traumatized them. I’ve never thought it would happen to me, but what happened today was probably a proof of how a person reacts to a traumatic experience.
McSpicy has always been my favourite meal from McDonald’s. For two years in the university, practically the only thing I would buy from McDonald’s was the McSpicy meal.
But not too long ago, I suffered from food poisoning after eating the soft-shell crab meal that tasted weird from the Japanese stall. I threw it away, and bought the McSpicy meal from McDonald’s. It was a bad mistake. I had a bad stomachache later, and was in agony through the night. The McSpicy presumably further damaged my already-weakened stomach.
I have since recovered, but from then on I stopped eating the two meals for a while. I still bought other meals from both the Japanese stall and McDonald’s without any problems.
A couple of weeks later, I tried the McSpicy meal again. I couldn’t finish it, feeling nauseous as I ate. I thought at that time I was just stressed and couldn’t finish the meal as I had no appetite anyway.
But today, I was quite hungry. I ordered the McSpicy meal for the second time. And for the second time, I felt nauseous while eating. One more time, I couldn’t finish the meal.
It was quite weird to think that McSpicy used to be my favourite meal, and now I can’t even bring myself to finish the burger.
I haven’t bought the soft-shell crab meal from the Japanese stall since the ordeal, so I don’t know how my body will react if I eat that meal. Maybe I’ll get the same nauseous reaction, or maybe I can just finish the meal normally.
Imagine if I go to a psychologist, and he has to hypnotise me while chanting “McSpicy is good… McSpicy is good… Soft-shell crab is good…”
PS: It seems that the Twitter Tools plugin I raved about a couple of days ago is quite problematic. Sometimes I’ll get blank pages on my WP Dashboard when publishing entries. I’ve disabled it for the time being. If anyone knows how to make it work stably in WP 2.3, please let me know.
