Bananas People

Every day, walking around the city I wonder and marvel at the stuff I see. Lately, my attention has been caught by banana skins all over the places. And what I find extremely weird is that I've never thought about banana as a fruit that you can just eat in the street and then throw its skin away. But apparently, that's what they do here.

Once, I was on the bus and literally gaped at a banana skin, just there, in the middle of the corridor. The banana eater was civilised and threw the skin in a bin. The problem was that the bin was broken and the waste had slipped on the floor. On the tube, I even saw a small heap of banana skins on the "counter top" behind the seats. Wasn't it strange?

Anyway, the myth that you can slip and fall on a banana skin is true. It really happens. Earlier in December, I was walking to a Christmas market with some friends, when one of them accidentally stepped on a banana skin and slipped. We burst out laughing. Not because she almost fell and broke a leg, of course. But because the urban legend was proven right! It doesn't happen just on cartoons. You can really stumble on banana skins.

So, if you're a banana fan living in London, for the sake of strollers around, please, do not throw your banana skin on the pavement, which is insidious enough per se! You might put people's life in danger.