Journal Post 2 for week 11

7 or 8 things
Perogies
John hates them with a passion. His mother thinks that he really loves them but when he was a kid he used to get made fun of for eating “weird” food. He can’t bite into one without remembering what polish jokes.

Antiques
John loves to go to antique shows. Every year there is a antique fair down in Brainerd and without fail he takes three days off to go “find treasure”, with his mother. For the week following he tortures his family with tales of all the old crap he found.

Horses
John is mortally afraid of horses. When he was a kid he went to summer camp up North. One day while on a trail ride the saddle slipped and turned under the young man so that he was riding on the belly of the horse. Just being around them is enough to give him a nervous twitch.

Broccoli
John HATES the taste of broccoli! He almost gags any time that it is put in front of him. His, wife mother and even daughters make fun of the faces he makes while eating it.

Spiders
John dislikes killing spiders and often will take mercy on them by placing them behind a piece of furniture so that his wife will not demand their sacrifice.

Vinegar
John has an affinity for the taste of vinegar and other briny. He has since he was a child when he would get yelled at by his parents for drinking all the pickle juice or for sipping from the olives.

The Finger
Once when he was a kid John slammed his finger in a car door breaking it. It took several months to heal and it still aches from time to time. The scare that it left on his index finger is what he uses to tell left from right when he gets confused.