I recently acquired an avocado pit at work and thought I'd try it one last time. I also found new instructions that completely countered the other way we had been doing it.

After a little more than a month and a half, I've got something going... a giant taproot.

There are still several months worth of growing in this little beaker before I can transfer it to a pot of planting soil, but I feel I'm definitely on a positive course to growing an actual avocado tree. Hopefully something will emerge out the top of it soon.

Anyway, a coworker was up in my office this morning and he saw the pit in the beaker and asked what it was. I explained it all to him including that I am still waiting for a sprout on the top.

He looked carefully at the pit and said, "Nope. I'm looking right in the crack and I see nothing."

"You're staring at its crack?" I said.

"Yep," he said. "And nothing."

"I can't believe you would harass an underage avocado by ogling it and making comments about its crack. Disgusting."

"I'm leaving now."

"YOU'RE SICK!!"

Good thing we're friends.