# Innocuous things with bad associations for you **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 7, 2012, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocuous-things-with-bad-associations-for-you/618129 "2012-04-07T23:09:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocuous-things-with-bad-associations-for-you/618129/1 "2012-04-07T23:09:27Z")
I was just thinking of a few things that I prefer to avoid or not think about too much, because they are connected with an unpleasant memory. I’m guessing many of us have some of these, so let’s post them here. You don’t have to say what the unpleasant association is, in fact, I think it’s probably best that we don’t. So here are mine: Campbell’s Cream of Asparagus soup _Meet the Fockers_ (or any of the movies of that franchise) Dan Fogelberg’s “Longer Than” * * * Your turn. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2012, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocuous-things-with-bad-associations-for-you/618129/2 "2012-04-08T00:20:29Z")
Eckrich Polish sausage. Cream Soda. Consumed a lot of both when I was laid off from a job I’d had for 18 years in 2001. It was a dark time, I didn’t think I’d ever work again. The smell/taste of either kinda bums me out for a second or two. The theme songs of certain NPR programs kinda flashes me back to then, also. ---
**Author:** ![Inter\_Alia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@Inter\_Alia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inter_Alia)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2012, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocuous-things-with-bad-associations-for-you/618129/3 "2012-04-08T00:23:50Z")
The song “The Way” by Fastball. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Lovely\_Margo\_Lane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/34f0e0/32.png) [@The\_Lovely\_Margo\_Lane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Lovely_Margo_Lane)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2012, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocuous-things-with-bad-associations-for-you/618129/4 "2012-04-08T00:30:54Z")
Fondue. It makes me sad that this is so since I remember it being so tasty, but it’s had harsh emotional connotations for almost a decade now. Jesus that’s a long time - I’m not even thirty! Perhaps I will try to break the association. ---
**Author:** ![Tess\_Trueheart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@Tess\_Trueheart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tess_Trueheart)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2012, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocuous-things-with-bad-associations-for-you/618129/5 "2012-04-08T00:51:18Z")
Residential stairs that change directions at 90 degrees a couple of times between 1 story. “Aerith’s Theme” from Final Fantasy (and I’ve never played any of the games). The old journal function at the Student Center Network website. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2012, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocuous-things-with-bad-associations-for-you/618129/6 "2012-04-08T01:06:50Z")
From an earlier dark time. **Heart’s** \* These Dreams\* \*\*Mr. Mister’s \*\*_Kyria_ Seeing a certain model of car in a certain color. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2012, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocuous-things-with-bad-associations-for-you/618129/7 "2012-04-08T01:08:53Z")
Does it have to make sense? I got beaten up in grade school by a big, nasty, ugly kid named “Cass.” Since then, I’ve hated the word “Casserole.” ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Accident](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Mr.Accident](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Accident)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2012, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocuous-things-with-bad-associations-for-you/618129/8 "2012-04-08T01:09:55Z")
The sound of young girls/teens giggling. I was teased a lot in middle school, and the sound of young girls giggling always brings back those memories. The taste of a regular ice cream sandwich. I was eating one when I found out my fourth grade teacher had been shot. At the time I was a selfish brat, and was rejoiced at the news, since I wouldn’t have a mean teacher anymore. I’ve grown up a lot since then, and looking back on those memories make me sad for her and her family, ashamed and guilty of my thoughts, and of how me and the rest of the class made her last year as a teacher hell. There’s also a part of me that thinks she might be alive today if we hadn’t been such asses to her. So now eating an ice cream sandwich brings forth all those memories and thoughts. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2012, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocuous-things-with-bad-associations-for-you/618129/9 "2012-04-08T01:10:31Z")
Big white pickup trucks with the fenders that stick way out. Apple Jacks cereal Aramis cologne ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2012, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocuous-things-with-bad-associations-for-you/618129/10 "2012-04-08T01:32:46Z")
Brut cologne roses men with beards all thanks to an abusive ex-fiance. [I should amend, I have no problem when awake with men with beards, it is if I am asleep and get awakened by a man with a beard, like a night nurse or attending doc in hospital waking me up for a blood draw or to give me meds.] ---
**Author:** ![Chicken\_Fingers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Chicken\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicken_Fingers)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2012, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocuous-things-with-bad-associations-for-you/618129/11 "2012-04-08T01:33:09Z")
El Camino cars. The Cat in the Hat. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2012, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocuous-things-with-bad-associations-for-you/618129/12 "2012-04-08T01:53:53Z")
Sunday nights as the sun goes down. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2012, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocuous-things-with-bad-associations-for-you/618129/13 "2012-04-08T03:01:01Z")
“Just Like Heaven” by The Cure and “Talking in Your Sleep” by The Romantics. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2012, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocuous-things-with-bad-associations-for-you/618129/14 "2012-04-08T03:58:04Z")
This is a poignant and interesting thread. Ditto on Sunday evenings at sundown- the saddest time of the week. But I like Aramis cologne. For me, the word “gadget,” since I found out that my exBF’s mother sexually molested him repeatedly when he was about 10. She would fondle him while he was in the shower and called his penis his “gadget.” God, even writing the word breaks my heart and makes me gag at the same time. That bitch died a couple of years ago. I never use that word. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2012, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocuous-things-with-bad-associations-for-you/618129/15 "2012-04-08T05:56:28Z")
Pizza Hut sausage pizza. I was eating some when I was told my dad had gotten in to a bad accident (due to his own DUI). ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2012, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocuous-things-with-bad-associations-for-you/618129/16 "2012-04-08T07:28:36Z")
Yogi Bear imitations. Not too crazy about Yogi bear in general, but if anyone says “Hey, Boo-Boo” around me I cringe. The smell of sunflower seeds being eaten in the shell. (Shells removed, in multigrain bread … wonderful, but "Spitz"being eaten and having the shells spit out…yuck) ---
**Author:** ![PandaBear77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@PandaBear77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaBear77)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2012, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocuous-things-with-bad-associations-for-you/618129/17 "2012-04-08T08:51:01Z")
The numbers 63 and 25 Also, February. April 3rd ---
**Author:** ![diggerwam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/919ad9/32.png) [@diggerwam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diggerwam)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2012, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocuous-things-with-bad-associations-for-you/618129/18 "2012-04-08T15:14:13Z")
Desperado by the eagles ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2012, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocuous-things-with-bad-associations-for-you/618129/19 "2012-04-08T15:18:17Z")
A car pulling up to the building. Someone walking down the hall. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2012, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocuous-things-with-bad-associations-for-you/618129/20 "2012-04-08T16:04:39Z")
Roxy Music’s song “Avalon” and Van Morrison. Brings back memories of how my mom used to play those two records over and over and over, sitting drunk on the couch being depressed and angry at my dad right after their divorce. Wine in food. Mom used adding wine to food as an excuse to open another bottle and down the rest of the bottle herself. Also, wine in food reminds me of how a drunk persons vomit smells. ☹ Public playgrounds. Although that association is breaking now that I go there with my toddler and we have fun. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocuous-things-with-bad-associations-for-you/618129.md?page=2)