[ WP ] A man wakes up from a coma to find out he has won a truly limitless supply of bananas and that his only remaining living family member is a Penguin .

`` Bananas?'' 
 
'Bananas. Lifetime supply.'' 
 
 `` Guess I should have woken up sooner, then,'' Dave grumbled. His head hurt. This all felt like a bad dream. 
 
 The last thing Dave could remember was getting into his car to go to work. A regular Tuesday morning in September. 1975. And now here he was, sitting in a hospital bed having awoken from a 40-year coma, apparently the winner of a `` Pass the Potassium'' radio contest right before his accident. His prize? A lifetime supply of bananas. And after learning of Dave's condition, the radio station - not sure of their legal requirement to supply a lifetime supply of anything to a man in a coma - had been sending the hospital a banana each week for the last 40 years. 
 
 Dave was peeling the latest delivery. 
 
 `` What about Lucy?'' Dave asked between bites. Boy was he hungry. `` How is my sister?'' 
 
 `` I'm sorry to tell you sir, but she passed away a few years ago. Cancer, I believe. But she became a very successful woman before her passing, founding numerous humanitarian and animal-rights causes. While they have all since wound down or been assumed by other organizations, Lucy did bequeath one to you should you ever awake: the American Penguin Society. It looks after penguins lost off the East coast, before releasing them back into their native habitat.'' 
 
 `` So you're telling me I'm responsible for these penguins now?'' Dave asked incredulously. 
 
 `` That's correct, sir.'' 
 
 Penguins and bananas. What was next? 
 
 `` I'd like to be left alone, please.'' Dave rolled over and closed his eyes. 
 
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 `` Why do you insist on bringing fruit baskets to a man in a coma?'' her mother asked. 
 
 `` He always liked fruit.'' Lucy paused. `` It's more for the nurses, anyways. I only ask that they leave a banana for him for when he wakes up.'' 
 
 Lucy wrapped her arm around her mom as they looked down at Dave, lying in his hospital bed, holding a stuffed penguin with the words `` get well soon'' stitched into its belly. 
 
 `` Everything will be okay,'' her mother assured her. 
 
 They turned to leave the room. 
 
 `` Do you think he dreams?'' Lucy asked as she closed the door. 
 

