Whoops

My fruit bowl sits on a low window ledge in my kitchen which leads directly out onto the balcony, thus...



I went for a banana and dislodged an apple that quite literally jumped out of the bowl and rolled very quickly and very purposefully across the balcony. I watched it go, banana in hand, thinking "it's fine cos there's no way it will fit through..." and over it went. Gone. Fitting perfectly through the gap in the bottom of the ironwork. Eek. It's quite a drop and I had been out on the balcony moments earlier watering the flowers and had seen the landlord's elderly father going to and from his car so I became pretty scared that I'd just killed the poor old soul with my apple. It didn't sound like I'd killed him, I didn't hear a body slump or anything. But still I just waited for a good 5 minutes not wanting to implicate myself by looking worriedly over the edge. But when I did look it was fine. No bodies just my apple, still intact, a little way down the street. Phew. The landlord's dad lives to see another day. I'm going to have to get me some sort of fencing to protect my neighbours from other errant pieces of fruit.