Rotten Bananas in Dementiaville

See the bananas pictured to the left? You'd probably use them to make banana muffins or banana bread, maybe banana pudding. Still others may throw them away.

But not Romeo. Nope. He'd let them sit for three or five more days until they became even blacker. Then he would put one on his breakfast cereal and eat it. He says there is much more nutrition in what I would call a rotten banana. Maybe there is. I haven't researched it. Does anyone reading this know what, exactly, is more nutritious about a rotten banana?

Romeo insists on having his rotten bananas, so I buy a bunch and let them go off (go off: another British term I picked up from Romeo) at home before I bring them to him at the nursing home. I posted a sign in his room, near the bananas:

Attn: Nursing Staff
Please send a banana with Romeo
to breakfast each morning
DO NOT THROW AWAY ANY BANANAS

His rotten banana habit is an oddity. I've overheard some of the staff members talking about it and giggling as they walked down his hallway. Romeo and his rotten bananas. The secret is out. Bananas are inexpensive, and it takes only days for them to go off. And it makes Romeo happy to have them. There's a bit of a trick to keeping them coming each day for him, but I'd do almost anything for him. Even touch a rotten banana. Eeeewww!!!