Top of the Bunch

I scrambled up the wooden breadbox onto the kitchen counter and locked eyes with an elite aerialist apparatus: a sleek chrome banana stand dangling a ripe yellow bunch like a high-wire circus rig. Naturally, a premier cartoon daredevil doesn't leave prime gymnastics equipment uncertified! I snagged a flexible green twist-tie from the bread wrapper, looped it cleanly over the curved metal hook as a makeshift trapeze bar, and bounded onto the cluster's thick crown. With an energetic kick of my oversized heels, the bananas swung in a dramatic pendulum arc over the countertop! I struck a one-handed gymnast salute, beaming down at an audience of three sleepy ceramic mugs.