We Take The Same Pieces Of Fruit To Work Day In, Day Out

An office worker who tweeted a snap of the same two pieces of fruit she takes to work and back home every day has found she’s not alone.

It turns out there are plenty of others out there with the best intentions when it comes to getting their five-a-day who end up doing the hokey-cokey with a banana and an apple.

You see, you take your banana into the office one day and bring it back uneaten, only to cart  it in again and bring it back, shake it all about in your work bag all week, just to find that it’s bruised and battered and still uneaten come Friday hometime.

Time to bring these guys back home again. They love the little spin into the office bless em. pic.twitter.com/ZH9Uk5C0Ox

— Eimear (@MissEims) August 29, 2018

Irish worker @MissEims tweeted a shot of her sorry-looking apple and banana with the message: “Time to bring these guys back home again. They love the little spin into the office bless em.”

That tweet received more than 9,000 likes and soon, everyone was swapping stories of their ‘work fruit’. Some office workers were amazed when colleagues actually ate their ‘work apple’ instead of just letting it fester on a desk all week.

It seems that many people see their ‘work fruit’ almost like pets or junk food mascots, keeping them around to make them feel better as they munch on a packet of crisps or inhale a chocolate bar. And just like pets, the apples, oranges and bananas are taken for outings to the office, before going back into the fruit bowl until the next day.

One of these didn’t make it 😞😢 pic.twitter.com/eZoC53JapR

— lisa marie 🇬🇧 (@prettyboots) August 30, 2018

When it comes to chocolate, however, it seems there’s no need for pretence, with a fun line-up of an apple, satsuma and a Snickers shared on Twitter.

@prettyboots captioned it: “One of these didn’t make it 😞😥”, but everyone in the thread insisted that chocolate never expects to come home again at the end of the day: it had fulfilled its destiny.

It isn’t just office workers that are guilty of doing the daily dance with fruit either, as @forevermygirl highlighted the plight of the apples and bananas she sends off with her kids to school each day.

Its back to school time for the apples and bananas in my house. Its hard to pack them off on their first day back but I know they will be back safe at 3.30.

— BeckiJ (@forevermygirl) August 30, 2018

She tweeted: “It’s back to school time for the apples and bananas in my house. It’s hard to pack them off on their first day back, but I know they will be back safe at 3.30.

And with another user describing the orange on her desk as decoration, is that what ‘work fruit’ is all about? We like to have it there to give the impression that we eat healthily, when actually it’s the Minstrels and cheese and onion crisps that are really the staples of our diet?

Maybe we should be done with it and just get plastic fruit. At least that way there wouldn’t be any of the tell-tale bruises to show it’s braved a heavy week-long commute…