Listen to the Bananas
You guys, I heart The Bloggess so much.
She recently saw a lifehack about lightly tracing words on banana peels with a toothpick; over several hours the tracing darkens and the words appear.
The person writing the tip suggested writing sweet notes for your kids on their bananas. I promptly went and traced notes on all of our bananas and then immediately forgot about it, until the next day when I heard Victor screaming about how the bananas were talking to him.
She details the rest of the story here and also solicits readers’ suggestions for paranoid-sounding things to write on bananas at the grocery store. There are well over 400 comments so far, with some of my favorites being:
that shirt? really?
The monkeys scare me.
No, I’m not happy to see you.
You’re being followed. NO! Don’t look!
This banana intentionally left blank.
Fuck Apples.
I can foresee a news item about mysterious banana notes popping up in grocery stores worldwide in the very near future.
Posted in Funny Peculiar | 5 Comments »
August 3rd, 2011 at 10:59 am
OH MY GOD. I LOVE THIS.
:eyes up the bananas at her local grocery store:
August 3rd, 2011 at 3:37 pm
I am allergic to bananas, yet once every few years I eat one just to be sure. Because they seem so delicious.
So the things I would write on the bananas would probably be along the lines of “I only look benign” or “Let me brown and I will haunt your dreams.”
August 3rd, 2011 at 11:03 pm
“This banana unintentionally left blank.” really resonates with me post-Bar—it’s not blank!!! It’s got words on it!!! I wanted to scream routinely.
August 4th, 2011 at 4:01 pm
xjane- Oh, God! *shudders at the thought of taking the bar exam again* good luck! hope it went well!
August 4th, 2011 at 9:33 pm
I absolutely love the bloggess… i’m thinking about sending my current a bunch of bananas with threatening messages just to see how he reacts to his bananas talking to him. :D