10. A fruit you dislike and why
Paul: Kiwi fruit. I just can’t do them. They’re green for a start. I’m a nurse. Nothing I deal with that is green is good. And then there’s these little seeds that get caught in your teeth. Oh, and the worst bit? It’s slimy. Just nope.
Andrew: Bananas.
Paul: Why?
Andrew: I don’t know. I just don’t like them. I used to eat them when I was young, and then one day… I don’t know. The taste just made me gag.
Paul: One day? One day like when you were about sixteen and first started to realise those feelings you had inside you were gay. One day when you realised how phallic shaped a banana was? Was that the day?
Andrew: So you’re a psychiatrist as well as a nurse?
Paul: Then tell me I’m wrong?
Andrew: …
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