Once upon a time, I worked with one of the most obnoxious, rude, arrogant, spoiled know it all I have ever had the displeasure to know. We worked with a guy from India and the Obnoxious One was bragging, for days, how he loved hot, spicy food. He just would not shut up about how he could out eat anyone with hot spicy food.

Eventually, we had enough of the Obnoxious One's bragging, and when he made a bet about eating hot spicy foods, we took it.
We went to a local Thai restaurant for lunch and we ordered the HOTTEST food they could make. The waitress, who was Thai, asked us numerous times in her wonderful Thai accent, if we REALLY wanted the hottest food they could make? We said yes.
The food came. We ate. We sweated. We drank lots of water. We drank lots of tea. We suffered. The first person to drop out of the "contest" was the guy from India!



Right after the Indian guy stopped eating Obnoxious One dropped out. I figured he felt if the Indian could not eat the food, Obnoxious One would not loose face by stopping. I kept going until my plate was clean just to shut up that Obnoxious a....s.
Obnoxious One had to buy us lunch, which was the deal if he did not keep eating after the Indian guy or I had stopped eating. I certainly "paid" for eating the hot food, it was physically very painful, but I "won" and shut up the Obnoxious One. However, I think the Indian guy is the one who really won. He got a free meal, did not suffer TOOO much, got to watch Obnoxious One loose, and me "win."



The Thai waitress was entertained but I think she thought we were idiots.

Me thinks she was more right than wrong.
Later,
Dan