Aversions to certain things just make sense. The most common teenage fears range from spiders and being alone to heights and public speaking, according to a Discovery Health poll. Our survival instincts warn us, for example, that we should fear spiders, primarily because they have so much in common with Alec Baldwin: hairy bodies, the potential to put us to sleep and the alarming ability to crawl so often into our living rooms Saturday nights. A fear of heights follows the same pattern: We have no innate ability to protect ourselves from gravity, so we naturally dislike the fight. Even aversions to more trivial, unassuming things are rational. Rebecca Black, for instance, obliterates all signs of human intelligence and thus we relentlessly bash her. As Lord_Voldemort7 so eloquently tweeted, "Congratulations Rebecca Black, you just beat out Sirius 'a curtain killed me' Black as the most pathetic person with that surname." I choose these examples of legitimate aversions to demonstrate how wildly irrational mine tend to be. My Ultimate Aversion, for instance, is to mayonnaise.
The thing is, I never have knowingly tried mayonnaise. So, I have no idea why it leaves me as uneasy as Paula Abdul's drug-induced comments leave American Idol producers. My first mayonnaise memory harks back to an elementary school sleepover where we played the classic "get blindfolded, choose three random containers of food and then eat whichever delicacy manifests" game. It is funny to think an innocent childhood game shares so many traits with fraternity pledging. Although instead of dog food
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