n., A
personality type; one who is small or
otherwise unobtrusive, and also bland, usually white, and kind of a square.
Derived from the thoroughly unexciting pears found in portable, lunch-pack bowls of mixed fruit sold by Dole, Del Monte, and
supermarket knockoffs.
All his life, Mikey B. wanted to be dramatic and exciting. He cranked his techno albums to maximum volume, and rolled down his windows while cruising
the boulevards of his parents' wealthy
neighborhood. He once organized a crunk bake sale, for his high school chapter of Young
Republicans (who had not yet co-opted the word, hyphy from hip, urban culture).
Yet, try as he might, nobody really noticed him. He was just a pear in the mixed fruit bowl of teenage society- small, white, bland, and kind of squarish.