Is it not amazing the words of wisdom one can hear in a supermarket? At the weekend I was doing my weekly shop at Sainsbury’s in Whitechapel, choosing my fruit and alcohol for the week – what else can you possibly need?
I noticed a rather gnarly chipper old fellow intensely examining the store’s bananas. He was wearing a very dapper tweed suit, accessorised by a cravat and hunting hat.
As I picked out my oranges this fellow slowly leaned over towards me, a large under ripe green banana gripped firmly in his right hand like a weapon. He whispered conspiratorially in my ear, his breath smelt of pipe smoke and brandy.
This is what he said: “Without heart a man is meaningless.”
With that he shuffled off to the cheese counter and I made my way to the wine alley.
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He had a point.
And a banana.
Can you really trust a man who is gripping a banana?
You did do that time in Brazil.
I was younger then Napoleon and blind drunk.