There is a banana

This made my day. I was aggravated this morning. I was sitting in my coworker's office and the phone rang. I have a tendency to hate my phone. I narrowed my eyes at it in disgust.

To my surprise, it ended up being the funniest phone call I have ever received.

It was a colleague whose office is upstairs.

"I'm not going to make it in today," he said. "I was hoping you or someone in the office could do me a favor."

"Sure," I said, and reached for my pen to write down the information.

"Inside my office, there is a microwave," he said. "On top of the microwave, there is a banana."

I  stopped. The paper read "[Person's name]--office--microwave--banana." Odd.

"Okay..." I said.

"The banana is ripe. But it's only going to be ripe until about the end of today. And then it's going to turn to mush."

I tried not to laugh. I had absolutely no idea where this was going.

I nodded, even though it could not be seen.

"I'm going to need someone in the office to eat the banana," he said. "Maybe for a snack, or part of their lunch. It's a perfectly good banana, I'd just hate to see it go to waste."

Definitely not what I had expected. He had called into the office solely for this purpose. To offer a banana.

The entire exchange brightened up my day and made me loathe my phone slightly less.

Offering a free banana, an awesome act of kindness.