Bananaramarama

So you say you haven't been to the office since the shutdown?

Did you...leave something behind as you scurried out hurriedly...or did you leave work the Friday before all that happened, fully expecting to be back on regular hours?

Are you wishing you had taken that favorite jacket with you...or turned off your monitor...or not left a banana in your desk?

You might want to get in touch with Mhairi-Louise Brennan over in Glasgow, Scotland.  She was home for nine weeks, and besides all the anxiety that the pandemic brought to us all, she also had to worry about what was going on with the banana she left in her desk drawer at work.

"Knowin there is a banana in my desk drawer in work, which has been there since a week before lockdown is makin me feel anxious," she Tweeted.

People replied, as they always will...

"Anxious, it must be driving you bananas," one user joked.

"If it’s any consolation, it’ll no longer be a banana in any sort of recognizable form," another wrote.

9 weeks into the shutdown, Brennan decided to hie herself o'er to the office and see how Chiquita was doing. That's enough time for any science fair project, don't you think?  And she had all her Tweeters wantin' to know how the banana was faring.

"The unknown was killing me so I've drove to work to see wit the damage was. I present...a 9 week old banana," Brennan wrote. "Safe to say its deed [sic]."

It sure seems to be.

"I came here from the viral tweet hoping for a resolution. Thanks for following through," a fan wrote to her, as he or she ran down the hall in a hurry.

"It looks how I feel during this lockdown," someone said.

Another simply replied: "RIP that banana."

It reminds me of a time when I was working shift work, and one Saturday evening we decided to do Salad Bar Night. We all brought in various items in Tupperware and laid out a nice selection, and then promptly put the leftovers in the dispatch center refrigerator.

Three weeks later, we decided to do Salad Bar Night again, and when someone opened the tub o' raw cauliflower that had been a-moulderin' for 21 days, well...I'm not gonna say it was lethal (although I led a delegation to take the tub and its foul contents out to the dumpster in the Judges' Garage) but the United Nations came that Monday to investigate rumors of chemical warfare taking place in the Baltimore County Courthouse.