I've just emptied a pannier last used on 1st October and......

[vernon]

I found an air dried banana. It was a fresh banana on the 1st October. It had sprouted some mould but thankfully it hadn't come into contact with the canvas of the pannier. The Banana had tried to mate with a tyre lever and I had to prise the lever off the banana before I discarded the banana.

It's a personal best and beats the six week old pork pie that I found in the pocket of my Belstaff motorcycle jacket pocket in my youth.

 

[snorri]

before I discarded the banana.

I hope you put it in a compost heap.

 

[the snail]

I forgot about a bidon of orange squash for a couple of weeks, when I went to empty it, it had fermented. Tasted good, like alcoholic fanta. Waste not, want not I say.

 

[upsidedown]

I've had the plunging hand into rancid banana in Camelbak moment. Not nice.

 

[summerdays]

I would never have the good fortune not to find it smeared over the inside of my pannier .... I always keep too much stuff in mine and the first I usually know is that damp squidgy feeling when I stick my hand in .... YUK!

 

[Spinney]

Glad I'm not the only one!

 

[ASC1951]

Many years ago I bought a Honda 50 in the days when you could pass your full motorcycle test after a couple of months practice. I bought a pound of sprats for my tea and put them in their brown paper bag in the top box, which I didn't open again until I sold the bike after I passed my test. I didn't get a very good price for the bike.

 

[Night Train]

I forgot about a bidon of orange squash for a couple of weeks, when I went to empty it, it had fermented. Tasted good, like alcoholic fanta. Waste not, want not I say.

I did that with orange juice when I was a kid. I'm sure it was about 3 months in there forgotten. Then I got ready for a ride and took a sip before setting off. Didn't taste good to a 10 year old.

 

[Night Train]

I've had the plunging hand into rancid banana in Camelbak moment. Not nice.

I found a rotten onion in the back of an escort van I bought decades ago. I was cleanign the rubbish out of it and put my hand into the weel where the rear lights were and found the onion the messy way.
I also put my hand through a rotting pigeon while crawling through a loft space pulling cables through.

 

[yello]

Could be still okay for cake??

I like the pleasures of finding such stuff. It's an expected reminder of something you've done. Similar to putting your hand in a coat pocket and finding a fiver, but more rewarding for the soul.... or something. It could only be a picture theatre ticket, or perhaps a flier for a street fair, but it just takes you back in a instant to something perhaps quite meaningless that you would have otherwise forgotten. Yep, all that from a manky banana!

 

[tyred]

I put on a coat I hadn't worn in a long time and stuck my hand into the pocket and realised a packet of Opel fruits (or whatever they're called now) had turned to a load of sticky, horrible gunge that was surprisingly difficult to wash off.

 

[asterix]

...
I also put my hand through a rotting pigeon while crawling through a loft space pulling cables through.

When in a student let years ago, feathers and the occasional small bone started appearing in the hot water supply, particularly in the bathroom.

Being a mug, I was volunteered to investigate and found a bird (pigeon size) quietly decomposing in the open header tank.

It was some consolation that also being a keen daily swimmer I almost always showered at the pool facility, unlike my fellow lodgers.

 

[Night Train]

found a bird (pigeon size) quietly decomposing in the open header tank.

I've found a few of those in the drinking water tanks at the top of tower blocks when I was in the building industry.
If the flimsy plastic covers weren't put back properly on the tanks then the pigeons would stand on them and fall in getting trapped underneath.

 

[2wd]

The Banana had tried to mate with a tyre lever

Wonder if it could have peeled itself