Patience and the Green Banana

I ran out of bananas the other week, so on Tuesday I hopped down to Costco to replenish my supply @ $1.32 / 3 lbs. The trouble w/ Costco sometimes, is that their bananas are usually green, and you have to wait several days sometimes before you can enjoy them. I got tired of waiting. Now Friday (3 days after I bought them,) I had enough. Still green, I thought it wouldn’t be that bad, so I proceeded to eat.

After spending some time trying to get the peel off, and as I crunched away, I realized it wasn’t worth jumping the gun. Not only did I have an awful taste in my mouth, in the process, I also destroyed the pleasure that was to be mine if I had waited just a few more days. I ended up cutting off as much as I could (to let get ripe) and stomached the rest, so as not to be wasteful, as well to enforce the lesson I was to learn that day.

And so my lesson on patience. It’s better to wait. Better both in the short run and the long run!

Waiting makes peeling them so much easier, too.  :)  btw - if you still have problems starting the peeling process while ripe, the monkeys start at the other end by pinching it together. Learned that at my first GS seminar.  The things you learn at those things…  :)

Posted by Sherri  on  03/12  at  05:20 PM