One of the techs yelled at me one night because I was gonna come back for the spilled juice later and she was like I COULD'VE GOTTEN IT SOMEBODY COULD HAVE SLIPPED and I had to be like shit girl you right, you right.

I think a banana peel was a polite stand-in for a piece of dogshit, that wouldn't gross people out too much.

2006

https://www.cnyhistory.org/2014/10/how-a-banana-became-the-terror-of-syracuse-it-can-down-anything-but-the-thermometer/

In school, we put a banana peel face down on the floor during lunch. It was more of a goof thinking "who the fuck would slip on a banana peel". 30 seconds later, some girl come around the corner, boot first into the banana peel and was really close to eating shit into a cafeteria table. She caught herself at the last second.

We all pretended we had no idea (dumbshit kids) but were stunned that it actually happened. Nobody was laughing, we were all just like " what the fuck?!"

It doesn't happen very often because of the massive and ongoing awareness campaign.

I was running a marathon 3 years ago, probably around the 8 mile mark and saw someone ahead of me drop the peel from their banana on the pavement. Since i was feeling good I purposefully stepped on it thinking nothing would happen and slipped and almost crashed completely, but I managed to run it out to keep my balance. So it's not completely unrealistic

I’ve literally done both in my lifetime. Soap as a kid and banana peel as an adult and laughed my ass off that it was even possible.

Just slipped on a banana peel in the station last week. My knee hurt for a short while

I don't think I've ever see any of those happen outside of slapstick comedy on tv.

This stuff still gives good slapstick if you're not careful:

Literally only once in my entire life.

I worked at a major restaurant chain for a few years about a decade ago. One of our specialty bar drinks was a frozen strawberry banana daiquiri thing that was made with real bananas. One day, our bartender was mixing like five of these things for a big group. The bananas were cut in half in the morning for portioning and kept in a cooler until needed, where the half would be peeled and used. One of the bananas got peeled, put in the blender, and the half peel was tossed into the trash can with the others. Or so she thought.

She hands out the frozen drinks, then quickly steps away to go check on something else, walks past the trash can, and slips on a banana peel that didn't quite make it into the trash. We were busy, so many customers and a few servers saw.

She didn't get hurt. She mostly caught herself before hitting the ground. But for the rest of the time I worked there, we would poke fun at her for tripping on a banana peel that she put there.

I once slipped on soap. And one time on some ice which impaled my hand on a branch

soap, me, roughly 7-8 years ago.

I think maybe once in school?

I slipped on ice a decade or so ago. Probably looked very funny. I can still feel it in my knee and tailbone.