The banana and the lava pit

I'm on the phone talking to my mother-in-law which Teddy well knows. Teddy reaches for a banana and says to me "Can I have one?" I point annoyingly to the phone and completely ignore him - after all he's 10 1/2 and really should know by now to wait patiently when someone is on the phone.

By the time I get off the phone Ted has peeled the banana. He looks up at me before he takes his first bite.

Ted: Really, can I have it?

Me: I would never deny you a banana

T: What if we are dangling over a lava pit about to plummet to our death? How about then?

Me: If you have one and that is how you want to remember this world, then by all means please eat the banana.

Camela