My mom has the weirdest fear. Most people laugh or just simply don't believe it, but it's true. Although a lover of tomatoes and spaghetti sauce, my mom is afraid of ketchup. I have never met anyone else that feels the same way as my mom. Most people seem to think that ketchup is a delicious topper for all sorts of things... burgers, hotdogs, fries, eggs, heck I've even heard of people eating it with bagels and pizza!
Oh and it's not just the taste that my mom despises, she can't even look at it without becoming nauseous. Usually my mom just asks the server to take it away from the table if it's sitting there. Sometimes she even constructs a make-shift barricade with other items on the table so that she doesn't have to look at it. Now if someone at the table is eating it that's an entirely different story. In that case, she makes faces like she just ate something sour and looks away.
This summer, my mom and I decided to take a break from shopping in the city and have lunch at the RL Grill. Now I usually never order cheeseburgers when I am out to eat, but the RL Grill has the most fabulous burgers that I have ever tasted. I choose to order the burger, and as soon as it comes I notice that there is no ketchup that came along with it. As I motion the server over to ask if he could please bring some, I notice that my mom has already strategically moved the small cup of ketchup that came with my burger to the complete opposite end of the table without me noticing. Now, seriously?
Some people grow out of their fears, but unfortunately I don't think that my mom will ever get over this one!
2 comments:
I find irrational fear of something commonly safe is a waste. Fear in general is a waste and worry in my opinion, except towards an actual threat of course. To take things a bit further than ketchup, a life in fear is no life at all. Mind Over Matter
I hope you didn't inherit such a strong aversion to anything. Sounds like a bit of a phobia to me! : )
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