The lesson is, always take food from the break room to your desk, even if you won't eat it for a day or so.

Then you're reviled as the hoarder who takes food even when they don't have immediate plans to eat it, depriving someone who would eat it right away.

The Workplace, Why Bother?

I forgot to include the part where you hide it in a drawer.

And the part where everybody's secretly watching everybody else at all times so the fact that you're hiding it in a drawer (not a good idea generally with a banana anyway; not good for the banana in the short term, and not good for you in the long term when you remember 3 months later you put a banana in your drawer) is just a sign that you're actually aware of how shameful your hoarding behavior is, casting it in an even more venal light.

We have mice. Keeping food in a drawer is an invitation to mouse poop and pee all over your office and your food nibbled on.

Mice will even eat tums or rolaids in your drawer... or will nibble the package enough to make them inediable anyway.

5 or 6.

This thread is bananas! B-A-N-A-N-A-S!

I should clarify that we have mice - at work. They creep me out and I would freak out with them at my home. Sorry to those of you that like them as pets.

(although I do have a little chihuahua we rescued named Mousey.)

Our Beardies (link NSFBTD) like baby mice as food once in a while.

But we don't feed them (the Beardies) bananas.

That banana is still good. Don't go mourning it yet. (Or throwing it out.)

I know, I tend to eat mine here at work a bit before they reach that stage just to avoid the askant looks (oh the evils of peer pressure) but that seems just about right to me.