That is when they found a week’s worth of rotting bananas in the ductwork.
My mother-in-law is kind of weird. She has this thing for bananas. She is always talking about bananas and how they are good for your digestion. It can be sort of embarrassing being near her when she talks about this with random strangers. Anyhow we drove up to visit their grandmother and, sure enough, she insisted everyone eat a banana every day. I told her Kevin hates bananas but she kept giving him them anyway. I was surprised that he would take the banana into the kids’ room and return later with an empty peel. It wasn’t until a few weeks after we returned home that we all found out what Kevin had been doing with the bananas. He had been putting them down the ductwork for the HVAC system. The vent in the kids’ room could open up and he would simply remove the banana from the peel and drop it in there. He didn’t want to disappoint his grandmother but he hates bananas. Stupid, I know, but that is kid logic for you. My mother-in-law called me and told me that there had been a bad smell in her house and she couldn’t track it down. Finally she called up an HVAC supplier to come and check the vents. That is when they found a week’s worth of rotting bananas in the ductwork. She was pretty mad about it. I know it was wrong of Kevin but I had to try hard not to laugh. Maybe now my mother-in-law will stop forcing bananas on all of her guests.