Popping grapes and snapping rubber bands

The grape was squeezed hard, alright... Squeezed until it popped and squirted its purple juices everywhere. Note: I'm talking about the purple grapes here and not the light green variety, referred to in some parts of the world as "White Grapes".

All along, as the grape was being squeezed, the elastic band was being stretched and relaxed, stretched some more and then relaxed and even twanged from time-to-time. It got to the point where the incessant twanging and stretching got way too much and finally caused it to snap. The circular loop of the elastic band was reduced to a strand of elastic material.

It wasn't so much that the grape suffered its fate as a result of the actions on the hand on it. Other conditions — climactic, social and otherwise — conspired to push the hand around, bump it into walls, step on it, kick it and cause other harm to it (3 occurrences of "other" in this sentence. Woo Hoo!!). Through thick and thin, the little grape survived until finally, its resistance broke under the vice-like grip of the hand.

Meanwhile, the elastic band was being pulled in all directions by all sorts of people — big, small, young and old — to a point where it began thinking to itself, "Well hold on a second, this isn't what I bargained for." Did it snap under its own desire to end its existence as a loop or was it external circumstances that caused it? Who knows?

More importantly, who cares? Grapes are fragile and it goes without saying that sooner or later, they will be crushed. As for elastic bands, well they're not exactly the most resilient of objects known to man and are bound to snap at some point. Bloody good thing too, considering the impact they can cause when they are propelled carelessly at somebody's eye. At the end of it all, is it really worth an entire post at View from Beneath — normally known for its... less meandering and pointless, shall we say, content — to discuss the fate of two inanimate objects? Course not, I hear you say.

Try telling that to the grape and the elastic band...