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More Banana Than You Can Handle

by Sidewalk Face at Eagle-Crow-Owl

It was my husband Andy’s birthday yesterday and we fought for ten minutes over a banana. I am desperate not to be the bad guy here, but I think I might be.

I was eating the last banana and asked, just like this:

Hey Hon, do want some of this banana?

He says, I don’t want banana right now, but you can leave me half of it.

But do you want banana?

I’m eating toast.

Ok. But do you want some banana?

I wasn’t going to have any banana, but I can have some if you want.

No. I don’t need you have any banana. Do you want some? I am happy to give you some if you want it, but I can also eat all of this.

I bought the bananas because I like them. I thought you didn’t eat bananas.

I’m eating them this week. Were they supposed to be for you? Did I eat all your bananas?

It’s fine. I don’t care. I might eat it later. I just thought you didn’t eat bananas.

Yes or no, do you want some of this banana?

Andy replies with words that are neither yes nor no. And that unfortunately is an issue for me. I should let it go. I should learn to interpret what he means. But I have this overwhelming need to be able to communicate on my own terms, so I persist. I follow him into the bedroom and keep going. I say:

Is this a southern thing? Are you not answering me because both answers show a lack of care for me and you are only interested in showing care? Like if you say yes, that means you might be depriving me of a whole banana and saying no means you might be rejecting my generous offer?

He nods while making the bed and replies, that could be. I thought maybe you were offering it because it’s like eggs and was more banana than you can handle.

He is so considerate of me he can’t answer the question. He’s only thinking of me and how much banana I can handle. The yes or no makes it only about him. What a man. I was actually asking him if he wanted some banana because I love him.

A little later I came into his office and said. Yes or no only! I just poured myself the last cup of coffee. Do you want half? He said yes. And he got half.

20 thoughts on “More Banana Than You Can Handle”

  7. This is the most proto-typical couple fight I’ve ever heard ha!
    I had a friend ask me once if My wife and I fight and I told him honestly, “Yeah, but it’s usually about someone not burping the Tupperware before putting it in the refrigerator, or a disagreement on what pizza place we met at in high school, or how many fluid ounces are appropriate to give a dog two hours before bedtime haha. Ultimately, these fights seem to make the marriage stronger and help everyone relate to each other, though.

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    1. Thank you. I was happy to have gotten it written down. It makes both me and and husband laugh. It’s so stupid and yet unavoidable. Humans, can’t live with them, can’t live without them.

      I like what you wrote about you and your wife. As long as we can all laugh at ourselves, it’s best to actually talk it out and try and learn. Cheers!

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  8. lololol…that was great! So relatable.The guy I am currently seeing is exactly like this- and i get irritated with his non committal, neutral answers to almost everything. However i HAVE learned that his lack of opinion on most things is because he “sometimes forgets that his opinions( or anyone else’s) matter”. Kind of eye opening , that.

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