Regardless of your explanation, Ultima, if I came across a talking mushroom I would suspect that I had already eaten a mushroom or two.

That aside, I wonder why a talking mushroom's first words upon seeing me would be, "Don't eat me!" Why would it automatically assume I would eat it? After all, it's not common knowledge that eating a talking mushroom will grant someone a (limited) wish. Maybe subconsciously the mushroom wants to be eaten! Therefore, if I ate it, I would be playing into it's psychological manipulations...so I wouldn't eat it. Unless...the mushroom somehow knew what my reaction would be , and cleverly tricked me into not eating it, in which case, I would eat it!

Then I would wish that friction did not exist so that we would all have many laughs sliding helplessly all over the earth...