a sore spot, if not a button

Someone's response to a comment I made to his FB post involved a word that was a reminder that I may not be less socially inept as I had come to believe. I apologize and he wrote back saying he wasn't angry, but it had really hit a sore spot. I'll survive.

"Half-off Ragnarok"

"This isn't what I signed up for when I took this job, you know. I thought the worst thing I'd have to deal with was my hair biting someone."

- a gorgon in Seanan McGuire's "Half-off Ragnarok"