Let's free the banana!

Here it is... my first blog. My husband spends his time on the internet reading profound (and confounding) poetry, or looking at various environmental or religious articles. He, therefore, has something of substance to write about in his new blog. My friend, Thang, spends his time reading political ( and painstakingly depressing) works of non-fiction, and also has something newsworthy to write about. I, on the other hand, spend my time reading novels about women in far off lands or times, and surfing the internet for news I don't really have much invested in, or visiting my other friends blogs (and occasionaly reading my husbands instead of talking to him when he is in the same room). My latest internet scavenger hunt took me to the JapanToday.com website where I like to read the PopVox or New Products pages. It is there that I saw one of the greatest inventions I have ever set eyes upon. Really! I don't know how I am living without one of these.


http://www.sanrio.co.jp/products/200704/banana/welcome.html


It is the "Hello Kitty Banana Case"! I mean, how can you leave home without one? This clever little case says it holds a small, to medium size banana for people on the go. Now, before I inspected the picture more closely, I thought, "that might be handy, bananas always get so bruised in my bag, a hard protective case for them would be a smart idea!" That thought was followed by a sincere interest in knowing how the exact curviture of the banana could be approximated in a case. It couldn't exactly be a "one size fits all" situtaion. It was then as I looked at the picture that I realized it was just a little foam wrapper with a keitai loop attached. I all of a sudden pictured genki high school girls across the country carrying around a banana as one of their many cell-phone attachments. This foam banana condom can do no more to protect or preserve my easily bruised banana than if I threw it in the bottom of my purse all on its own. Which makes one wonder, how many people carry bananas with them? I've been known to...but the deeper I dive into pursuing this strange invention, the stranger I realize my writing is sounding. Innuendos aside, do bananas really need to be covered up?

Leave it to the Japanese.