Sometimes I think that I am really going to miss my job.

Banana Splat.

Okay so here’s the joke.

When I was still a pretty small kid, I am thinking like 4-6 age range, my favorite joke was banana splat. I don’t know how it got started; I just know I thought it was one of the funniest things ever. It wasn’t even a joke with a punch line… or a real joke or whatever… this is the joke: “guess what? BANANA SPLAT!” sometimes I had to cut it all the way down to just “BANANA SPLAT!”

When we would be having family home evening, and taking care of the family business for the week, I would always raise my hand with one item of business, banana splat and a bunch of giggles. I know that pretty much most of my family did not think it was as funny as I did. I could tell when nobody was in the mood for it when my dad would ask “Does anybody have any more business we need to discuss besides banana splat?” I would usually raise my hand any way, “banana SPLAT!”

Sooo… about 20 years later…

I was working. I wasn’t really “feeling” it. It was early in the morning, around 5:15 am or so. We have really powerful ovens at work. We also have bananas and a drive thru window… can you see where this is going?

Pretty much… I asked my boss on this morning:

“What kind of food would you classify bananas as, Breakfast or lunch?”

“Bananas are definitely breakfast food in my opinion… yeah; I think they go with cereal… breakfast food.”

“Oh… So I should probably not have warmed it on lunch… maybe like a breakfast sandwich, do you think?”

“What?... *looks in oven… blinks a couple times… looks at me… closes the oven… looks at the ground… looks at me… looks away...* Yeah, you probably should have done it as a breakfast. Bananas are not a lunch fruit.”

After it was finished I looked in the oven and tried to imagine what I was thinking, because this was not it… I thought it would be cooler… like exploded or something… especially judging by the boss’s face… anyway, I picked it up and walked over to the window and threw it onto the ground as hard as I could out frustration for the let down…

Banana splat. I couldn’t stop laughing. I thought it was one of the funniest things I had ever seen… a steamy (fresh out of the oven) banana splat.

I guess the funniest part about this whole thing for me is that I didn’t really think ahead about what I was doing. First I was imagining blowing up a banana, not thinking about how I would have to clean the oven after blowing it up. I was so not impressed by the banana warmed on lunch that I threw it on the ground to try and make it cooler as opposed to abandoning the idea and just throwing it away. I wasn’t picturing a splat… I wasn’t picturing anything… but it ended up being pretty dang funny to me.

Banana splat.