The Friday Five on a Sunday

[nanila]

1. If you were a fruit, which would you be and why?
   
   I would like to be a guava. They are a tropical fruit that does not export well, and are almost as tetchy as avocados. Unripe, unripe, unripe, unripe, unripe, RIPE AND SUCCULENT, hahaha you missed the 10-minute window when I was perfect and now I shall rot secretly on the inside so you won't be able to anticipate your disappointment.
   
   When you do manage to catch them at the right moment, they are sooooo delicious.
   
   
2. If you wake up and smell smoke, and you have to get everybody (pets included) out of the house safely, but you have time to grab one item, what would you grab?
   
   My phone. No question. Once upon a time it would have been passport or driving licence or some such, but we do everything on our phones now, so I can think of nothing more essential than that. Yes, the documents are a faff to replace, but how are you going to get online to do it without your phone?
   
   
3. If you were stuck on an island, who would be the one person you would want with you and why?
   
   I hate it in films (and in fact in real life) when people are ordered to choose between beloved family members. I would want my partner AND my children with me, or else I would refuse to choose.
   
   
4. If you could change one thing about your physical appearance, what would it be?
   
   I'm not sure changing one thing would make much of a difference.
   
   
5. If you could spend the day with one famous person, dead or alive, who would you choose?
   
   I'd quite like to have a chat with Jaron Lanier.

Comments

[qian]

Guava is nice! My brother's favourite fruit. Horrible when it's mushy though. Did you have the pink kind or the white kind? We tend to have the white-fleshed kind in Malaysia, so it always puzzled me that guava juice was pink, until I grew up and realised there were other colours out there.

[siliconshaman]

My Beloved had the best answer to the "one person" desert island question.. she'd chose Bear Grylls. Since he'd substantially improve the odds of survival and rescue or escape.

[ragnarok_08]

Neat answers!

Here are mine:

1) Watermelon — they're good for you
2) I would get my portable safe with important papers and documents.
3) My twin sister Maddie, of course, but only if she wanted to, and we both have great survival skills, and we'd survive and thrive.
4) A little thinner
5) Honestly, I have no idea

[shirebound]

Unripe, unripe, unripe, unripe, unripe, RIPE AND SUCCULENT, hahaha you missed the 10-minute window

LOL, I didn't know about that!

[fred_mouse]

I love guava! Such a wonderful smell (we have a pink fleshed one in the garden)

[brittdreams]

Guava is such a great answer. Your description of them is so perfect.

Also, you're totally right about the phone. Every time they say to leave everything behind in the event of an evacuation from a plane, I think in my head "I'm definitely bringing my fucking phone". How else will I ever 2FA into my accounts?