I must not understand monads. I thought I knew the basics of how to use them, and have used them in the little bit of Haskell I have written, but that makes no

I must not understand monads. I thought I knew the basics of how to use them, and have used them in the little bit of Haskell I have written, but that makes no sense at all to me. What are the apples and oranges supposed to represent? Why would anyone want to put oranges in the spacesuit? When "you just take what you need", who is the "you", and are they swimming around in the ocean? Is the ocean significant at all? I might be wasting my time trying to understand this analogy. I'm not up to speed on terms Haskellers throw around such as fields, rings, category theory, etc. Haskellers are welcoming of newbies and eager to teach, but are on a vastly different level than the average developer causing some of us to feel we're not smart enough to wield Haskell. Unfortunately even some basic concepts are so abstract that trying to explain them in concrete terms often leads to gibberish such as dons' analogy there. I realize dons probably wrote that for the monad-savvy crowd as kind of an inside joke, perhaps I'd do well to just move on.