I'm melon-averse, too.

INTENSELY. I also dislike them all, especially the smell, but watermelon is my cantaloupe...the smell of it literally makes me gag, almost to the point where I can't breathe. I have to ask the server to hold the melon, too, when I see it on other people's plates in a restaurant. I can't even get in the line at a checkout stand where there's a chewing gum display because I can smell it if there's watermelon gum. I'm not sure why I detest the smell of melon so much. My mother tells me I never got sick on it when I was too young to remember. I don't think that could happen because I can't imagine ever being able to put it in my mouth. She's told me that I did make myself sick gorging on corn and wouldn't touch it afterwards. I'm glad I don't remember because I eventually got over it. I love corn.

I've always had a theory about the melon thing. When I was very young we spent summers in Mendota. My grandfather was a foreman for an agricultural company and he would bring home gunny sacks full of cantaloupes and there was ALWAYS watermelon. Mendota is in the San Joaquin valley and it gets ungodly hot in the summer. In the evening everyone would sit around eating cantaloupes and watermelon and I couldn't even stand for anyone to talk to me with their melon breath in the 100+ degree air. I think it scarred me for life.

Cucumbers are a close second to melons.