SteveFranz wrote:
When I was a new guy in the Marines, I was on mess duty for a while. One day I was given a large bag of onions and told they needed to be peeled and sliced. I cried my way through about 2/3rds of the onions before my tear ducts dried up. I haven't shed an onion tear since then. I don't know what happened, but onions haven't bothered me a bit since then.
You became desensitized to them. That is how allergies are treated. They give you small amounts of the irritant until you become desensitized. You just received a crash course!