Sometimes I have toast in the morning before I go to work, so I put the bread in the toaster and I start the coffee machine (it makes strange prip prip noises which I've long since stopped making notes about) and eat a proper banana (by which I mean a yellow banana, not a green or - worse - ripened one) and sit down at the table to wait for the treacherous toast to show it's smugly wrong-coloured head above the toaster parapet but then, somehow, it is perfectly toasted, brown, a hint of burnt on the edges (NOT the centre, this is not Victorian times), and it wants me to eat it, it begs me to eat it, it puts it's pretty little toasty bits all up in my face and I sink into it, holding it with both arms, tugging - almost ripping, holding it down really, directing it - this way and that until I am content.
This makes me happy to be alive.