“Try the other side”, a friend’s nine year old daughter said to me.
“For what”, I responded banana in hand.
“To peel it, that’s the way the monkeys do it”.
This was a nine year old (kids can get me to do all kinds of new things-they are true champions) asking, I love change and it is just about the strangest request or comment I have had in years. You know what though?
I hesitated. Somehow I did not want to eat a banana differently. I have never seen anyone peel the banana from the other end. What if it did not work? Worse, what if it was better than my version of the top peel? I considered not even trying because it might be BETTER. Have you ever done this? What would it take for you to try? Of course not… Your business? Oh, of course not….
“Monkeys peel from the bottom, people peel from the top”, she encouraged.
That little extra boost was all I needed and I peeled that banana, backwards. You can guess the ending.
THIS IS AWESOME!
It is fast, its is clean- no mushed tops, no two-peels-stuck-together-that-never-come-apart, no cutting off the banana butt (my kids call that last black spot on the banana, on the bottom, the banana butt) it came clean with the peeling and zero waste. I am a complete convert. I will never go back.
How many bananas have you peeled backward lately?