automatic pain memory

when i was 8, i stepped on a piece of broken glass on my grand-ma-ma’s oriental carpet and my left foot bled for like half an hour. i have since inherited the carpet and EVERYTIME that i walk on it, i find myself unconsciously favoring my right foot.

it’s cool that the body has this automatic pain memory… BUT why is it that whenever i make my own pizza, i immediately try to taste a clearly scalding piece and end up burning my mouth EVERYTIME?

mark my words: the next time that i make myself a pizza, i will burn my palate.

• 2/9/2009 UPDATE: it happened again. sausage pizza f/ dominos (late night)
• 3/6/2009 UPDATE: it happened again. plain pizza from ‘nocchi”s
• 3/13/2009 UPDATE: it happened again. homemade neopolitan pizza
• 5/11/2009 UPDATE: it happened again. eggplant parmesan pizza f/ upper crust