Banana: Lessons and Memories
Then, I was moving restlessly on my seat trying to get a good view of the contents of that truck with my phone ready to shoot. Driver told me casually "bananas sir". And so I said "oh okay". But why is that door open? Isn't that dangerous? He told me, "so that the fruits won't get ripe untimely".
I asked why do they not use an open truck instead. Driver intimated there could be a number of reasons - mostly "economic". He says, if the suppliers are serious, they should use refrigerated vans. But those are expensive. Maybe too, this was the only truck available to them, and that they must already deliver, lest the fruits get ripe and rot.
I wondered why were those in crates, when many I see who deliver bananas just load them bare on trucks or even jeeps. He told me those are probably export overruns. Ha? Bananas have overruns too? And that many?! Driver further told me, there can even be as many as 30 truckloads of overruns in just a day. Wow!
How do those banana overruns happen anyway. I was told there are many reasons like 1) those crates may have already been at the airport ready for export but found to be of unacceptable quality, therefore rejected. Or 2) they harvested so much but wasn't able to make a sale for all of them. Or even 3) the buyer cancelled at last minute! Gosh!
Where are those from? He said Davao or GenSan areas. I asked "why do you know", and he answered that he worked there as driver for 10 years before coming home to Samar.
Destination? His reply was: I'm sure just within Samar, because if they ventured farther out to Bicol or Metro Manila, those bananas would become just pig food. Ha? Bananas are pig food too? And Mr Driver said, pigs love it, and swine growers also love bananas as feed (when available) because they make the pigs healthier!
Oh bananas! So many things I've learned today. And I suddenly remembered my banana lesson of years ago - when a friend cried, and despised me, not talking to me or even glancing at me for about a month.
I said...
Minsan, ang pinakamasarap sa mundo, do not necessarily come from noble intentions. Take this Banana Cake as example. She who baked this did not really dream of making us happy and delighting us, so she baked banana cake. The bananas just threatened to becoming ripe and rot all at the same time. Mabubulok na. So, to make use of them, she made banana cake. Di nya maubos, dinala nya dito sa office. Na nasarapan naman tayo!
Especially with the kantiaw of others, she who baked the delectable banana cake broke into tears and despised me for what I said. She never baked banana again, and never talked to me again. But once a friend of My Royal Highness, always a friend ng aking kamahalan! After some time, she got out of her ire on me, and made banana cakes again - that we ate at the office - for free!
Oh bananas!
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