Frazz by Jef Mallett for January 08, 2016

Prime material for banana nut bread!

You’ll be going banana trying to finish that bad book.

Are bananas that expensive? I thought they were 59 cents for a pound of them.

I still can’t abandon a bad book half way through…or even 30 pages in. It is a curse begun by the nuns drumming into our brains to finish whatever we had begun!

Anyone else read today’s “Pearls Before Swine”?

It reminded me of bigpuma…

There are so many books available. Years ago I taught myself that if I didn’t like what I was reading by a third or so into the pages then quit and read something else

A 59¢ banana!? What, she buyin’ ’em at convenience stores on the way in to work? I buy my bananas 49¢ a pound!

A buddy of mine got food poisoning eating a banana with a split peel. On a diving trip. In Mexico. Not a wise move.

Mrs. Olsen probably buys bananas by the “hand,” as do most of us. By the time she got around to the last one, it was past its prime, but she would not “throw away money.” However, as has been suggested, she could have used it in banana bread or some such. I sympathize with her though— I have done the same thing with overripe bananas. Something having to do with having been born before the effects of the great Depression had died out, I suspect.

Then again, maybe it’s all about commitment!

When she was a young woman banana’s were 25 cents a bunch. That would make throwing out a 59 cent banana very difficult!

Past its Prime? Didn’t know Amazon was delivering perishables.

I used to complete any book I started, until one day, reading a bad book, I thought, “What law says that I have to finish this?” and put it down. Life is too short to waste time on bad books. (Definition of “bad” being up to the individual, of course.)