You don’t - but if you’re going to use it for removing the pit, you might as well use the same one for slicing the thing to begin with - saves dirtying another knife.
Note: Not liking avocadoes, I’ve never tried any variant of this.
Another Kubota hard way story. Our Kubota wasn’t running well. I checked the air filter and it was clean. Figured it had to be the fuel filter. I called a friend who does small engine repair and he said it definitely sounded like the fuel filter. He told me there were two, one under the gas tank and one under the hood. He told me if I bought replacements he’d stop over and put them in.
So, I bought two fuel filters. I put the one in under the hood and it was easy. The one near the gas tank was difficult to even see, let alone reach. I was able to fit my arms in there and worked blind. It was a sonofabitch, but I got it in.
Ten minutes later my friend stopped. He couldn’t believe I got the difficult one in. He always jacks up the back end, removes the left rear wheel, and does it that way. His arms are bigger than mine and he could never fit two arms in the tiny space.
Jesus. Our tractor has ballast in the wheels. The rears are probably 800# each. I’d be terrified to remove one without a crane handy!
This is a lawn tractor. When I was 16 a friend called me asking me to come over asap. He also called several other guys. My friend’s parents were away for the day and he was messing around on the family tractor and rolled it!
I forget all the things we tried; ropes. pulleys, etc. Eventually got it upright. It ran and you couldn’t tell it had been on its side!
He’s lucky to be alive.
My canoeing experience is limited to one trip down the Delaware River decades ago, with my wife up front and me in back. We were on a church trip, with loads of teenagers in canoes leaving us in their dust as we paddled in circles due to my nonexistent skillz.
Eventually I figured how to paddle and steer and we got moving along fairly well, but we were a sight to see–my wife weighed 90lbs wringing wet and I was about 210, so her end of the canoe was showing quite a bit of freeboard. And I mentioned to her that the forward engine just wasn’t contributing much to our propulsion.
The day concluded well, and every muscle in my body was sore.
OMG, that comment made me laugh way too hard. Four years before he rolled the tractor he was attempting to make an explosive device. He lost two fingers on one hand and a finger on the other hand and a belly of shrapnel. His older brother was outside of the shed where his brother was working. The brother lost his hearing.
A year or two after rolling the tractor he was at a classmate’s party (parents out of town) and over-consumed alcohol to a ridiculous extent. We loaded him into the bed of his parent’s truck (with a cap) and drove him home, leaving the truck in the driveway and driving off. When he came to hours later he managed to get into the house. He could have easily died of exposure.
If it was cold enough outside that he “could have easily died of exposure,” why did you move him from an indoor setting and leave him outside in the bed of a truck? 
It seems like you brought some significant liability upon yourselves if he had succumbed to the elements as opposed to allowing him to sleep it off on the friend’s couch.
I was 17 and pretty drunk myself. My friend was supposed to be my ride home. There were three of us in the truck cab and one in a car that accompanied us.
We were more worried about his parents being woken up and getting some of their anger directed at us. I did worse things in my teens.
We left the friend’s house where the party took place because a neighbor called the cops and we were all racing to get away. Sleeping it off on a couch was never an option
Well, that explains it. 
I did some pretty dumb stuff myself at that age.
I had read about a pseudo-random number generator in an early computer magazine and decided to write an 8088 assembly language program to implement it. One of the steps in the generator was to double a number and, if there was a carry, to add 1. I started to think about an efficient way to do this, when I noticed an instruction RLC which meant rotate left through carry and actually moved every bit over 1 and put the carry bit, if any, into position 0. I have no idea why anyone thought such an instruction useful, but it did exactly what was needed.
My other story is much more mundane. My wife and I were making a pizza party. I did the dough and she filled it and baked it. I’ve never gotten the hang of tossing the dough in the air so I was rolling it out using a rolling pin. We were using some shallow pie tins and I was putting a sheet of dough into a tin and carefully cutting the excess dough with a knife when one of the guests grabbed the rolling pin and just ran it over the pie tin, neatly separating the excess dough in about 5 seconds. Now I use a baking stone, so I am back to cutting with a knife and turning a lip by hand.
Or of alcohol poisoning. And in either case all of you who left him there would have been partly responsible.
And if your excuse is that you were drunk: were the people driving sober? If so, why did they do such a thing? If not, you could all have killed somebody else entirely.
You are also lucky to be alive; and lucky that you didn’t kill somebody else. These are not cute funny stories.
17 year olds? Hah!
Wasn’t offered up as cute, nor funny. This isn’t the “tell us a cute/funny thing you did” thread.
This is a sorta techie one, but I was ready to bang my head against the wall when I finally figured it out.
A friend spilled some water on a laptop that they were using for various important things. The laptop went dead and wouldn’t boot and the screen never lit up. Then, as it apparently dried out, it tried to boot but Windows always crashed during the boot.
One thing I remembered about this computer was that it needed to boot in legacy mode and if it lost power it would default to UEFI. So (over the phone) I asked them to check the BIOS and it was indeed still set to legacy. They poked around in the BIOS and happened to mention that it was set to RAID mode for disk access. I said that had nothing to do with it and it was the legacy boot mode that was important.
I subsequently brought the computer home and tried various boot fixes with no resolution. I then did a full restore from backup, thinking the drive may have been scrambled. The restore took many hours. Same result, same boot failure.
On a hunch, I went into the BIOS and changed the RAID setting to “AHCI”. Bam! Up and running!
If I had said (over the phone) “try changing RAID to AHCI” I could have saved myself days of time, hours of frustration, and nearly 100 km of driving.
I have a whole bunch of Dell laptops that will (apparently) randomly switch from AHCI to RAID. After a similar story to yours, it is now the first thing I check when one of them is misbehaving.
Here’s another computer one. I had a computer that had been working perfectly doing lots of different things, including being a VPN server. Then it stopped routing traffic from the VPN clients out the external interface. VPN clients could talk to the server, the server could talk to the VPN clients, the server could talk to the world, but the VPN clients could not talk to the world.
All of the firewall and routing rules seemed correct. A look at backups showed none of that stuff had changed. tcpdump and such showed packets leaving one interface, and never arriving at the other. A look through the live iptable rules showed they seemed correct.
Finally figured out it was docker. At some point docker started putting it’s rules ahead of the VPN’s rules, so forwarding was denied. Moved the VPN rules to DOCKER-USER, and then everything started working again.
The hard way part? Going down the complex path of diagnosing networking problems, when the answer to internal network problems on a server is almost always docker fucking with iptables in ways it wasn’t yesterday. Not the first time this happened to me.
17 year olds vary considerably.
Maybe? I’ll give you that, but not in my experience.
It depends on the variety, too. Some kinds have bumpy skin that cannot be pulled off in one piece, it comes apart. Others, like Bacon, have a smooth green skin that can be pulled off if the fruit is ripe but firm.
I’m from California, we are familiar with avocados there. My preferred method is the split in half, knife out the pit, cut into slices or chunks, spoon. It works with all varieties.
Jeez, for a minute there I thought you were referring to 17 year olds.
well, it’s probably true of them too.