My father, who taught me many things (including the fact that if you say most anything with confidence, people will believe you) replied that bananas grew below the equator, and gravity is opposite down there. (Good one, Dad!)
I clung to that fact for most of my elementary school days, because my dad said. Along about middle school I realized the, ahem, creativity my dad took in his answers and explanations. And today, I found a banana tree in Fairhope, Alabama while walking through a courtyard with my dad. He couldn't explain why the bananas on the tree were growing up this far north of the equator.
Banana Tree in Fairhope, Alabama
3 comments:
thay's some craziness!! cool picture.
girl, that wimbledon final was unreal. i was so sick to my stomach about it. i really wanted Nadal to win. how great when he hit that shot sitting on the ground. i think old Fed was a bit shell shocked by it all.-like who is this kid on my frickin' turf??? anyways, good stuff. not sure fed likes the hawk eye machine too much....
Hey Lil Sis . . . rest assured, you are not the only child that good ol' Dad bamboozled and bewildered with his physics, zoology and other explinations of why certain things are the way they are !!
Good ol' Lawton. Gotta love him! Can't imagine bananas in Fairhope. Forget why they grow upwards, why are they growing in Fairhope?
Tell Mr. Lawton I said, "Hi" please.
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