As I do every morning, this morning I put my Trader Joe's steel cut oats into the microwave for 4 minutes and 20 seconds while I stretched and worked out - basically making myself useful while my oat meal cooked.
Rewind for a little relevant backgrounder: Three weeks ago, I contracted COVID. It was a mild case with no fever or sore throat; primarily congestion and upper respiratory infection. During COVID, I started making simple mistakes, many of them for the first time ever and related to taking the wrong medication or supplement at the wrong time of the day. And post-COVID, it seems like some of these dumb unprecedented mistakes have lingered, and this morning was one such occasion.
After I took my oatmeal out of the microwave, I grabbed an organic banana - also from Trader Joe's - and peeled the skin. Then somehow, the entire banana slipped out of my hands and on to the kitchen floor. You'd think no big deal, pick up the banana quickly, blow on it a couple of times, chop and put in oatmeal bowl. But nooooo, the banana bounced and rolled under my oven. When I laid on the floor and looked under the oven, I saw the banana resting all the way in against the wall. WTF?! What are the odds the banana would find its way back there??? I couldn't replicate this trajectory if I tried a thousand times. So now I'm thinking no problem, use the Swiffer handle to get the banana out, rinse and use. WRONG!!!! The picture below is incontrovertible proof there was no rescuing this banana.
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