He climbed a tree and hitched one end of a rope around one of the boughs and formed a noose at the other with the intention of hanging himself.
His last possession was a banana and he resolved to eat that before committing the deed.
He peeled the banana, took a bite and dropped the skin to the ground.
Just as he was shuffling into position to drop himself, another chap scrabbled below him, picked up the banana skin and began to eat it.
The man up the tree took the noose from his neck and came down, he realised that there was somebody even worse off than he was.
