Peppers

Today i ate lunch with my boss.  She and most of Korea have a high tolerance for spicy food.  She had about half a dozen green skinny peppers on her plate along with some red spicy/garlicy sauce.  She dips the pepper in the sauce like its chips and salsa.  Like no big deal.  Then she says, "Try one."  I watch her and think well, why not?!  I know i can't handle that spicy of food, but they dont look too harmful.  I take a very small bite and im ok.  Then seconds later my mouth is BURNING!  Then, my eyes are watering and im pretty sure im red.  OMG.  Nothing would help it.  I tried rice, i tried my seaweed soup, i tried the apple salad.  Thankfully the apple salad kinda helped because it was cold.  I started laughing (because well, what else can i do) and crying (because it was so dang hot!), and im sure i looked pretty stupid.  And then my boss says, "Spicy?"
"Ugh, ya!"
"Oh they aren't spicy to me."
me, "Well you must be Wonderwoman."  She chuckled.

Oh man.  My mouth burned, like really burned for at least 20 min before it all went away.  Whew.  I thought I wasn't going to make it.  I can't believe she can eat those peppers like chips.