Quirks - I have them!

For some reason, there was a lot of obsession about me not eating onions when I worked in the office.  It was like I make up for it in eating any pastry.  I guess I was the big weirdo for saying I couldn't eat them.

I actually put it down as an allergy on my medical and I feel like an idiot for doing that.  I got a few chuckles and I get it.  Nobody is going to feed me onions when I get an endoscopy.  I don't blame the medical people for thinking I'm a dork.  

The people are work were just jerks.  I worked with one woman who started in on me about it.  We had one of our stupid lunches where we all had to pretend to like each other and sit in the same room.  She thought it was hysterical that I couldn't eat them and started in on me while we were getting our food.  I was just baffled why all of a sudden she was fixated on it.  She couldn't stop laughing.  I know I'm funny but this not how I want people laughing.  Even when we sat down at the long table, I put myself at the end of the table with the lunch I fixed for myself while the same woman kept up with it and said Oh, I'm so sorry.  Why don't you come sit by me? Still laughing.  Still thinking she's funny.  No.  You're no Wanda Sykes, asshole.  Someone asked me why she was laughing.  I said she thinks it's funny I can't eat onions and I'd like to eat my lunch without people laughing at me.  I didn't say anything.  She was still laughing.  

I have had onions in the past and I don't know when it was that I started getting sick from having it on my food.  I would start gagging when I came across a stray one on a sub.  I threw up in a bathroom in San Diego.  That was really embarrassing.  I got free tacos but Harold ate the rest I couldn't stomach.  It seemed like around that time I had gotten an endoscopy and found out I had acid reflux.  If I come across it I'm gagging.  For some reason, it's elicited a lot of humor from people. 

About 20 plus years ago, I couldn't drink Diet Pepsi.  It was an acid feeling.  I had a couple of tests done and I got my diagnosis.  It's been a hit and miss with some food.  I can eat tacos ok, but if I get something rich like Italian food, I have found it kind of caught in my throat.  I probably have a hiateal hernia?  Is that what it is?  I knew someone had it but it seemed like once I would get up and walk around it would be ok. 

I can't drink any soda except maybe Diet A&W.  I had Diet Pepsi at some stupid bowling event we had and a beer because I was thirsty.  I was desperate.  Well I was told that if anyone had a beer, they didn't have to go back to the office.  Therefore, I had one.  When we were done with the event, my voice sounded like I had laryngitis.  Was it the beer? I don't know . Was it the diet soda?  I don't know.  This is a lot of what has happened with acid reflux.  I'm not sure what's ok sometimes.    

Everyone has their quirks. I don't even know if it's a quirk.   So what?  I can't eat onions and I sound like Froggy from the Little Rascals if I have a beer.  Go ahead and judge!