Note: I am aware that some people feel the “correct” word is nauseated, and not nauseous. These people are in fact highly nauseating, and need to take it up with Merriam-Webster.
Before we were married, and long before she was ever pregnant, there was one thing that never failed in making J nauseous – me fiddling with the soccer ball air freshener that hung from the rear view mirror in my car. I would bat at it playfully, and she would say “Stop it, you’re making me nauseous.” At the time I did not realize this was foreshadowing.
Fast forward a few years to a couple of pregnancies, and I now have an ever-growing list of items that are nausea-inducing to J.
1. Saying the Word “Rubio’s”
That’s right, during the first pregnancy there was a particular bad bout of nausea immediately following consumption of a Rubio’s burrito. While likely unrelated, this did not prevent a moratorium on me using the word Rubio’s for about a year.
2. Closing the Blinds in Opposite Directions
When you close some horizontal blinds, you can close them in two ways. Naturally, there is both a right and a wrong way, which almost certainly varies from person to person. You may not however have realized that closing two sets of blinds in different ways is a potent inducer of nausea.
The strange thing during all of this is that the one item which makes me most nauseous (a big pile of stinking Muffin-poop), seems to have little ill effect on J at all.
