My Father Warned Me About Candy and Bananas

When I was about fourteen years old, my father once told me a story. We were about twenty minutes from home and had just come from running an errand for my mother. Well, my father had. I was just along for the ride.

“Kwapi, imagine I wanted to send you on a long journey. Now imagine this journey was on a train that would take a few days to get to your destination and all I gave you were bananas and candy, what would you eat first?”

I was used to my dad’s random stories. If they were stories f...