# Rubber Band Ball Maintenance **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 22, 2010, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rubber-band-ball-maintenance/530043 "2010-02-22T22:38:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2010, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rubber-band-ball-maintenance/530043/21 "2010-02-24T03:47:58Z")
> [@Methyl\_Ethyl\_Death](#): > > **fiddlesticks** , your rubber band ball is beautiful. Where did you get those wide purple and blue bands? Your’s is the same size as mine and I need to add a fresh layer. Adding wider rubber bands like on your’s would make the task less time consuming. M.E.D., check out the grocery store, I usually see those on broccoli. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2010, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rubber-band-ball-maintenance/530043/22 "2010-02-24T13:14:21Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > … I usually see those on broccoli. I’m confused… the produce or the producer? ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2010, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rubber-band-ball-maintenance/530043/23 "2010-02-24T13:31:09Z")
Yep, those wide ones are from broccoli and/or asparagus. ---
**Author:** ![Methyl\_Ethyl\_Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Methyl\_Ethyl\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Methyl_Ethyl_Death)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2010, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rubber-band-ball-maintenance/530043/24 "2010-02-24T14:35:03Z")
Oh great. Broccoli and asparagus. Well, looks like I’m stuck with adding the rubber bands I get from the mailman after all. 🙂 BTW thanks **Joey P** and **fiddles** for answering. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2010, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rubber-band-ball-maintenance/530043/25 "2010-02-24T16:54:33Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > I’m confused… the produce or the producer? Albert’s dead, but you can still find the vegetable at the grocery store. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2010, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rubber-band-ball-maintenance/530043/26 "2010-02-24T16:57:00Z")
> [@fiddlesticks](#): > > Yep, those wide ones are from broccoli and/or asparagus. Gotta know these things when you’ve been working in a produce store for (counts in head) 17 years. Oh and I only mentioned broccoli because they are typically wider then the asparagus ones, OTOH, with asparagus you’ll often get two of them. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2010, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rubber-band-ball-maintenance/530043/27 "2010-02-24T17:44:18Z")
> [@tr0psn4j](#): > > I think he only has one! 😉 And it’s blue. Poor bastard. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2010, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rubber-band-ball-maintenance/530043/28 "2010-02-24T21:59:13Z")
And here I was, worried that people would consider a rubber band ball as being juvenile. Where were you guys before this thread started? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rubber-band-ball-maintenance/530043.md?page=1)