I think "paranoid" is not the right word. Until something like this happens to you, the perception is that there's no risk (realistically, how many people would consider it at all)?
But if it happens once, it makes you think. I was caught in an strong earthquake once whilst staying in a foreign hotel. My "paranoid" action of walking out the fire escape route and checking out how the escape door lock on the first day got my family and I out of the building in seconds. This is now something I now do
every time I stay somewhere I'm not intimately familiar with. I am still called paranoid by some of my friends and relations because of this. "Sensible" is how I think of it.
So no, modelman, you're not paranoid - it's happened to you and gave you pause for thought and a sufficient fright to make you think of possible consequences. If you don't have to chew something when flying, then just don't do it.
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| We eat multiple times every day and yet I cannot remember when I last choked |
This is true dhblewis, but try telling that to the thousands who have choked, some of them to death. It's not as uncommon as you think - it is, according to the stats, the 4th most common cause of accidental injury deaths! (Apparently!)