Along came Leopold

(This is a rewrite)I wrote the post then erased it thinking that it was a bunch of nonsense. Anyhow the main points about the next few sentences are white mushrooms, and one banana. Mushrooms in Poland can be found in any veggie store, they are also cheap, and taste great. I am starting to learn the many possibilities they can be cooked. Our friend Ewa taught me a recipe, and it's good and simple, the mushrooms come out brown and delicious. I kind of forgot how it is done now, but I can assure you(100%) that we had them at her house last Dec and they were great. So if you like mushrooms, Poland can deliver a lot of those. Why the one banana??? Well it is a cultural thing. You see no one where i came from will buy one banana, or even think about buying one as a snack. Snacks are different where i came from. However, today i was walking somewhere in Warsaw when i saw a green truck and a lot of fresh nice looking veggies laid out next to it on the side walk. The bananas looked super yellow under today's sun, like kids colored them excessively on their way to school. I bought one and ate it, it felt great and energizing. I know it seems like one hell of a silly pleasure, but i guess that what makes a difference for me, that i spontaneously was able to accommodate myself to one simple yellow fruit effortlessly. I have done it in Beirut but was never able to escape the deranged look on the sellers face. Buying one banana in beirut can be as ridiculous as flashing a bunch of nuns.

The real treat of the day was even simpler. I was having a tea and reading "Generation X" ( A strangely good book and strange enough), sitting outside in this cafe on a big intersection where trams are regular, and also old ladies on their canes. A big old dog came along strolling near my table sniffing around, and then sat down very close to me as if posing and asking to be photographed. Since he looked like the Royal type of dogs, and even though his owner gave him a cherished name, I named him Leopold.