Another job we didn't like doing was going across being sent
across to Fyffe's banana boats. No-one liked that job because in
those days bananas came across on the stem. Consequently... there's
all kinds of insects, snakes, and all kinds of things and these
things used to frighten the life out of a lot of people. And one of
the tricks men used to play if you were carrying a stem of bananas
was someone behind you would get a piece of straw and tickle the
back of your neck and of course panic stations then. But ... we
really did have plenty of insects and ... after the war when
bananas first started, used to come out on elevators from the ships
hold and come down to moving elevators on the quayside the men used
to take them off and put them on the man's shoulder and he used to
carry it along to the wagon.
