a fruit is worth a thousand words

look how cute these bananas are! fingerling bananas!

remember the paint cards from my old house? i started putting them up on my wall here and then all the power went out and i spent half an hour taping them up in the dark. this is what it looked like when the lights came back on. i can't tell whether i like it. i think i do. it reminds me of tetris.

the guy who lives next to the clinic came up to me very determinedly as i was leaving today, shook my hand, and handed me a guayaba, a fruit which he grows in his yard. i asked him if it was ripe, and he said yes yes yes. then he shook my hand again. people often give me fruits and vegetables, but it's generally it's multiples, not a single unit of fruit all alone. on the way home, as i was examining it for ripeness, i noticed that there were some letters on it.

as far as i can tell, the letters spell "ME OTS." what the hell does that mean? i also tried to read it upside down as "STOEW" but the E is backwards so it cannot be. OTS is not a word in spanish. or english i guess. if the O was supposed to be a G, it could be some kind of shorthand for ME GUSTAS ("i like you"). this is pretty likely. what other messages do you carve into fruits? "thanks for helping me move?" "your baby needs to see a doctor about that rash?" maybe he ran out of space. why not choose a larger guayaba? improperly executed. i don't think i've ever received a fruit with a cryptic message carved into it before. now what do i do? i really don't think it's ripe yet, for one. he also added that anytime i want another one he will pick it for me. maybe i have to pick another one to get the vowels for this one? maybe it was because i wore a normal bra today instead of the usual sports bra.