i bought the bananas last thursday when they were still green, with the intention of doing the rainbow fruits. but i have lost my phojo somewhere around this apartment and i swear someone took it. so today, seeing that the bananas were turning yellow, i thought i might better take the photo now so i can have banana flambé tomorrow for dessert at supper. so that's the green, the blueberries don't look blue at all to my eyes, but we know it's blue in person. i thought the onion looks violet so i threw it in. the cherries were occupying space in my fridge -- i don't like cherries, the only time i eat them is when they're from the jar and these aren't. so there, rainbow fruit. tomorrow, i will have to break the rules of photography, something which i have probably been doing the whole time anyway.
today, i lost a friend. again. no, she didn't die, we just had a disagreement, a very heated disagreement. over what, you ask? melania trump. i hate talking politics because i know dick all about it. when it comes to exercising my voting right, i use my common sense, with a reasonable amount of pertinent research about the candidates and the issues that i could relate to. but this friend, who is (aherm!) american, insisted on talking about it, even though i warned her that i don't talk politics. well, she's a democrat she says. we haven't talked in a long while so i let her rant on and on and on. until she got my attention when she said a lot of derogatory remarks about melania trump. now, i don't know and i don't care about the american first lady (my friend insisted MT is not american, to which i reminded her that she also isn't a natural born american, but an immigrant who had been naturalized, just like MT), but i've read enough about her during the last few days and i can admit that i feel sorry for her. and my friend who i think is no longer my friend, got mad at me, as i countered whatever she said about MT, especially when i opined that perhaps some people are just envious of her good fortune.
now, i'll be honest that i tried to terminate the damn conversation three times, and even turned off my internet connection, but she insisted on calling me again -- we were on fb messenger -- to make her point and convince me to agree with her, which i did not because i could be tenacious when i have formed an opinion. and when she couldn't convince me she told me that we couldn't be friends if i cannot see her point. my reply? "so be it."
i hope she doesn't see the foolishness of her action and call me again and discuss about meghan markle. or i would have to resort to blocking her from my fb account.😂
It's a sweet and sour fruit salad
I too don't like talking politics and have refused to engage in conversations. I don't take responsibility if people want to take umbrage with my decision.
Great collection of colours! Some people can't help themselves when it comes to politics. And if they can't get someone engaged in the debate, they get upset about that person's disinterest (is that a word?). It's a no-win situation.
I think you did not lose a friend, because friends respect each others opinion and stay away from topics where there are difference of thought. You made it clear on your feelings and yet she tried to force you into their way of thinking. That is not a friend, but an acquaintance. Good to see you are still posting.
Definitely a beautifully colorful photo! It would make a marvelous fruit salad but I have to agree with @30pics4jackiesdiamond suggestion. Now when it comes to cherries if you do not like to eat them except out of a cannon perhaps we can no longer be friends either! JK. How foolish to let something so minor interrupt a good friendship. As to your other friend, friendships are far more important than politics!
Hopfully she will reconsider. I steer away from politics also . Why do you have cherries in the fridge if you don't like them? Grandsons visit maybe ? Is an onion a fruit? Asking for a friend...I didn't really care for MT green gown on the last night of the RNC. Fashion not politics right? Funny how some turned it into a green screen. Poor MT, it can't be easy being her.
Lovely rainbow colours Vikki. I see a wonderful fruity salad in the making (with the exception of the onion of course) . What a shame that people can't accept that it's ok to have differing opinions.
A lovely still life - love the lighting and the colors. And sorry to read about your friend - I banned politics from being discussed 4 years ago and, for the most part, friends and family have honored that request. FB is another story, however, so instead of unfriending I have a list of friends who post nothing political - I open that list only - it has helped, but come November, I may have to put FB aside for a while. It's sad, when we are already divided in so many ways, to add yet another stress to the mix.
First, this is a spectacular photo, so rich in color. Fav It's really sad how some people will write people off and lose friends over a difference in opinion. It didn't used to be that way.
1. the onion in the fruit rainbow makes it all worth. i love your sense of humour! the colours are awesome and the shot is great
2. your story is even funnier. (i searched for it because i read the one about your friend asking for your friendship back and wanted to know how you came to this).
September 5th, 2020
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I too don't like talking politics and have refused to engage in conversations. I don't take responsibility if people want to take umbrage with my decision.
2. your story is even funnier. (i searched for it because i read the one about your friend asking for your friendship back and wanted to know how you came to this).