Bananas

Since Cyclone Larry hit Queensland bananas have been making the news. The price of the phallic yellow fruit skyrocketed due to a significantly reduced crop. Many news programs reported the price of oil, gold, fuel and bananas on a daily basis! Bananas were even blamed for increasing inflation and interest rates. I must admit, I was very sceptical that the price of bananas should have any effect at all. There are plenty of other fruits to choose from, just eat something else. It's not as if it is absolutely necessary to eat bananas! Just have a rest for a while, eat a paw paw! Pretend bananas don't exist for 12 months. Personally I didn't eat one banana during the banana drama of 2006. I was immune from any price increase, except for the effect other people still buying them at high prices caused. So I have a story to help everyone and the economy if a banana* price crisis ever occurs again. When I was five I loved bananas. I always wanted to eat bananas. I nagged my parents for more and more bananas. My family went on a family holiday to Queensland and due to my love of bananas my mother bought a whole bunch of bananas. I was in banana heaven! I ate banana after banana! I kept asking for another banana and my mother kept giving me another. 15 bananas later I started to slow down. Soon enough it was banana vomit time! I didn't eat another banana for 15 years. Even now, I couldn't eat a whole banana on its own. With enough ice cream or honey it can be done but not without. So... my advice for you all is to act today while bananas are cheap and buy a couple of kilos. Sit down and eat bananas until you vomit. Then when the price of bananas skyrockets you will be unaffected.

*could also apply to any other food

On a side note, this is the 100th post of the Random Ramble! I have reached the ton!