Today, I saw a woman with a banana in her ear.
If you’re at familiar with the Westside, you’d be excused for thinking I saw her at the corner of 22nd and Pico (where, sadly, a young man was shot and killed a few days ago).
But no, this was another Westside nexus of odd – the Whole Foods at the corner of Lincoln and Rose.
Flanked by a laundromat and a 99 Cent Store, Whole Foods Venice is protected from the bustle and roar of Lincoln Boulevard by the gasoline and stale grease fumes of Thoma’s and the Arco station. In between these establishments lurks one of the few working payphones left in LA.
And that, of course, is where I saw her. Young and blonde, with the glossy black phone held against one ear, and a half-eaten banana pressed to the other.
I wonder who she was talking to?
