The Little Pit That Could

"Mmm."

"Good guacamole!"

"Yeah, this is really good."

"Maggie, this is really.......Maggie?" They called into the kitchen, surprised that the guacamole monster herself was not loading chips as fast as everyone else.

Maggie was, in fact, carefully inserting toothpicks into the sides of the avocado pit and balancing it over a cup of water.

"What are you doing?"

"One man's trash is another man's treasure--or in this case, agricultural experiment." Maggie said, confidently.

They called her crazy and jeered at the little avocado pit. They told her to leave the growing of fruits and vegetables to farmers and people who belonged in overalls. They told her it couldn't be done.

But it could. And it was. And in 20 years I will have my own avocados.