Crime & Punishment!

It all started SO innocently. A young woman: And her banana: This past fine Saturday morning, the young woman had taken the banana and placed it lying sideways on her dining room table, on top of a Laurel Burch place-mat, intending to eat it for her healthy mid-morning snack, along with a nice, fresh cup of coffee. Of course, the innocent young banana had no way of knowing the fate awaiting it. But it is a fate common to many such bananas in today's world. And the young woman was known to be a kind person - she wouldn't wish the unwitting fruit to suffer needlessly. No, no, no. Its demise would be as quick and painless as possible. No one need suffer - least of all, the banana. But life takes mysterious turns. Look the other way, become even slightly distracted, go into another room for only a few minutes - even LESS than a few minutes - and in such a short space of time, whole lives can alter irretrievably, irrevocably ... irreparab...