Just good banana sense

Our company sets out healthy snacks, for free, to all the employees.  It includes fruit, and I always grab a banana in the mornings - a popular choice among the cube farm denizens.  There's a lady that I see every so often but never talk to.  She's a number-cruncher, and she hardly ever gets out of her seat.  She grabbed a banana before me, and I grabbed mine.  She looked at me and said, "You know, [my neighbor] just opened her banana and it was half rotten, I'm serious, from here to here," showing me on the banana how far the rot had stretched.  This was, indeed, serious business, as the rotten portion was somewhere between 45 and 50% of the edible portion of the fruit.  Knowing she had gotten my full attention, she continued, "... so check your banana sooner rather than later in case you need to come back [to the snack area] and exchange it."

Checking the banana of course, meant I would have had to open it, but I did take the banana advice into account because - hey - no one likes a rotten banana.  On the way back to my desk, I pondered over whether to "check" the banana by trying to feel the rot from the outside in.  Or should I just say "what the heck?" and open it even though I may not want to consume it at that very moment?  I got back to my desk, and realized that the intent of my original banana pursuit was to consume it right away, before I got distracted by the threat of banana rot.  So I ate it.  And it wasn't rotten.

/banana adventure