The Passionfruit Incident at Sunday Lunch

Family lunches are always unpredictable, and if there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that someone will inevitably do something hilarious. Last Sunday, it was my sister-in-law Kate’s turn. We were sitting around after the main meal, just picking at the fruit platter and chatting. Kate, being the healthy one in the family, reached for a passionfruit. I didn’t think much of it until, well… things got messy.

So, there she is, carefully slicing the passionfruit in half, all graceful like she’s on a cooking show. But then she decides to squeeze it—just a little too hard. The next thing we know, it’s like the passionfruit decided to exact revenge. It didn’t just squirt a little—it exploded. I’m talking juice and seeds everywhere, but most of it… Right in Kate’s face.

The look on her face was priceless. She was mid-sentence when the juice hit her, and she froze, wide-eyed, dripping in passionfruit pulp. For a few seconds, no one said a word, and then my brother let out this ridiculous belly laugh, which instantly set off a chain reaction around the table. I was laughing so hard I could barely breathe.

And just when I thought things couldn’t get funnier, my cousin Matt, who had just taken a sip of his drink, starts choking from laughing, and before he knows it, the poor guy has soda shooting out of his nose. His face was red, and he was trying to recover, but that only made us laugh harder. Honestly, the combination of Kate’s fruit-covered face and Matt’s soda-nose incident was enough to turn the whole lunch into a comedy show.

Kate, bless her, tried to stay composed, but even she couldn’t stop laughing as she wiped the passionfruit from her hair and glasses.