The Abandoned Banana

A homeless man, named Kyle, was walking around town, looking for food to eat. He hasn't eaten in 2 days. He's on the autism spectrum, so he has an aversion to certain food textures. He can't swallow certain foods. Yogurt, bananas, tomatoes, okra, etc. You know, slimy foods with thick textures.

He went into the homeless drop-in center on Chess Blvd. & put his name on the list for a shower. Even though he came early & was 1 of the 1st 10 people, he waited all day, just to find out, at the end of the day (at the very last minute) that the 25 people for the day already had their shower. He was told that he was #26 on the list. He KNEW that was a lie! He suspected that there was favoritism & corruption at the center. 

Kyle didn't want to be walking around, smelling like urine all day because he wanted to be productive & try to get a job, even if it's day labor. It's hard to get a spot for day labor because the staff at the day labor center do the same thing as the homeless drop-in center (about the showers & laundry) with picking who they want to work for the day. The day center staff picks which favorites they want to allow for shower & laundry for the day. Kyle could be 1st in line, & the staff would STILL force him to wait until last, & then make it like he signed in right after the cutoff. He knew he was being set back, hindered & sabotaged. That's right! A gang stalked targeted individual. He figured that the day labor staff & the homeless drop-in center staff were jealous of him, for some reason. The drop-in center staff would treat him like an agonizing pest when he would ask for anything, such as a bar of soap, a razor to shave, or even his mail. He eventually became sick of the discrimination & favoritism. 

At the end of the day, one day, there was a large pile of fruit on the table at the drop-in center. Lots of fruitflies & gnats hovering over the fruit. The homeless people didn't care. They were hungry. While Kyle was using the restroom, everyone ravished the apples, oranges, bananas, grapes & berries from the dirty table. After they got done, & he came out, there was only 1 black, rotten banana left. The blackest & most rotten one of them all. He wasn't stupid. He figured that that was a CLEAR message sent to him. That they view him as the rotten banana. The abandoned banana. He figured that there MUST be some conspiracy against him.

As a result, that banana was ignored & neglected FOR DAYS, just like Kyle was. Eventually, another homeless man, named Chad (probably a perp), devoured the black, rotten banana, seemingly, in 1 bite. What a coincidence that, on that morning, Kyle was 1st in line & 1st to put his name on the shower list. He wasn't 1st to shower. He was last. He was wondering if he was going to get a shower for the day. If he didn't, he was going to go BANANAS! He got tired of the BS! Tired of the psych games. At last, he finally got to have a shower!

THE END