Banana Peels

Somebody really likes their bananas:

A BBC report from last month explains that a plate of 16-20 unpeeled bananas “appears on the second day of every month on the corner of Abbey Road and Wensor Avenue in Beeston, and residents say it has been a constant in their lives for more than a year.” Nobody knows how or why the plate of bananas pops up like clockwork. "I've asked around in the local community, but no one really knows and no one can tell me anything," resident Clare Short told the BBC. "[The bananas] appear early in the morning on the second of the month, I see them on my way to work. I'd love to know the answers to this." Bless her heart, Short tried to put a stop to the banana mystery by putting up a sign in January that read: PLEASE, RESPECTFULLY: NO MORE BANANAS!! The uncollected plates and rotting bananas leave such a mess! Wishing a Happy New Year to you all! From a Nottingham Clean Champion street cleaner volunteer. When the bananas appeared again on Jan. 2, Short knew that her sign wasn’t doing any good. She said, "I've come to take the signs down because I don't really want to make it like a feud, I don't want it to become a big thing. I think it's a special thing for [someone] and I wish them well. But if they could come back and clean up the mess a few days later that would be lovely. I'm going to keep an eye on it and keep cleaning up the mess." Other residents don’t care for the bananas either. Locals described them as “strange,” “annoying,” “disgusting,” and “gross.”

Bananas are good until they go bad...