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In my last full-time office, there was a girl who hated the smell of microwave popcorn. Out of deference to her, I ate it less, even though it's one of my primary food groups. She didn't care. She started reporting me to HR for popping corn in the kitchen.
This culminated in her reporting me for burning my popcorn and stinking up the office while I was on vacation. I got back to my desk after a week, to find a letter from HR banning popcorn because people were bothered by the smell.
I responded, in all honesty, that I hated the smell of coffee. Because I do. I don't drink the stuff, and I LOATHE the smell of brewing coffee. If they were banning my popcorn, I said, they needed to ban coffee.
Suddenly, one person's non-medical scent sensitivities weren't as important. I ate at least one bag of popcorn a day for the remainder of my time in that office.
Not sure what this has to do with much of anything, except that I'm watching all these people say that their religions are so much more important than mine, or my free will, and all I can think of is Petty Popcorn Girl and her vendetta against my snacks.
(To clarify: she didn't report me for actually burning popcorn. She reported me for burning popcorn while I was physically in a different country. So she was being petty and underhanded, and not actually having an issue with anything real.)
