the yellow watermelon

A friend of mine is in town on a business trip and stayed with me over the weekend. Saturday morning, she was craving melon for breakfast, so I offered her some watermelon I had in my refrigerator. It just so happened I'd bought a bunch of fruit for a party on Friday night.
I stood in the kitchen eating half of a watermelon that I'd had left over from the night before and watched my friend cut open another. I was just about to comment on her use of a small peeling knife to cut open the watermelon (I, very typically Chinese, would have used a cleaver), when suddenly we both gasped in surprise.
"What is that?"
"Is that a watermelon?"
"I guess. It looks like a watermelon."
"But it's yellow! Do you think it's gone bad?"
"No, it looks fine. Look at the skin - and the seeds. They look like a regular watermelon."
"But it's ... yellow."
Indeed, it wasn't a red watermelon gone bad. It tasted exactly the same as a red watermelon, just as juicy and just as sweet. Only it was yellow.



Yellow watermelon: it puts a smile on your face.