You are in an inn, about to order. The inn has come highly recommended. Friends who have eaten there are full of praise for the food, the atmosphere and the service.

The waiter approaches your table and you're given a menu. Glancing over the list of dishes, you find that you're unfamiliar with all of the options and seek the advice of your dining companions who've eaten there before. Inspired by their choices, you select your meal and place your order. Having done this, you sit back and anticipate the arrival of your selection.

Some time goes by and while you wait, you watch the parade of other orders being carried to nearby tables. You try to identify the meals you see from what you remember of the menu, but everything looks so different from how you imagined it to be. Time rolls on and you begin to sense a conflict arising within you. The other meals look so good, you're beginning to doubt your own choice...

Then, a waiter walks by with an order that strikes a disturbing chord within you. You realise that this is the meal you would have preferred. But you're aware that your meal is already being prepared in the kitchen, in fact by now it should be ready and at this moment, is probably on its way to your table...

The conflict grows within you. You want to change your mind and order the other dish, but it's too late. You've already ordered, there's no way you can change your mind now. Your meal comes and while you enjoy the food, you're dogged by a persistent sense of agitation....

Over drinks, you become increasingly dissatisfied with the meal you've just eaten. In fact, now you're feeling nauseous. On the way home you're still thinking about the meal, though you try to shake it from your mind. A headache develops and you retire to bed, hoping it'll be gone by morning. But you wake with the headache, still as powerful as the night before. The throbbing continues for most of the day and you're forced to take the day off, putting the illness down to stress.

Eventually, the incident at the inn is dismissed from your mind and in time, it's as though the conflict never happened. Life goes on as before, but somehow, something seems to be missing...