Pectus' 42 bananas story

In my junior year of college I was eating at the cafeteria with my friends and I say to them, "See that tall girl over there?" She's in my health class. She's hot.

They then said to go talk to her. I said "No thanks." Then they said they would not let me leave the cafeteria until I talked to her.

I tried to delay and distract them, but they weren't budging from their principles.

So, I reluctantly stood up and made a beeline for the salad bar. They really wouldn't let me leave until I did something. So I waited and waited. And built myself up. Got the courage to go talk, grabbed a banana from the pile of them in front of me and headed for the tall brunette girl from health class.

I opened something like, "Hey, are you in my health class?" She was there with one other friend. We then talked about what we just covered in class, the test coming up, and how the grading scale was messed up (95-100 was an A!). And some other things.

While I was talking my friends were going nuts, some left the cafeteria and were calling other friends saying what was going down...how epic it was that I made this crucial step.

I ended the convo with something like "See you in class on Tuesday". I headed to the exit seeing them in the hallway whooping and raving, but the cashier at the door said, "You can't take that banana out." So I slammed it down at the cash register and walked out all proud.

They all congratulated me and were impressed that I talked for so long. They told me how they called people and told them the feat I had completed.

Then they asked me what I was doing at the salad bar so long. I said I was counting bananas. They asked how many and I said 42, referencing a famous literary work. They had never hear of it, and they actually believed me.



In true Pectus fashion, when Tuesday rolled around, I didn't talk to the girl again. And none of the classes from that day forth.