Score: 10
"One time I had to get the turkey for Thanksgiving"
date: January 4, 2002
Well, old GrandfatherClock handed me that axe and told me to do the deed, but I just wasn't up for it. That turkey and I had become good friends over the years, and I wasn't about to let it become our dinner. I dropped that axe and said, "No, GrandfatherClock, I'm not going to betray my best friend." He looked stunned and stared at me for several of the longest seconds of my life. Do you know what he told me that day?
He said, quietly, "That'll do, Raspberry. That'll do."
From that day forward, I could look into my GrandfatherClock's face and know that he had an unwavering respect for me, and the decisions I would make in life. I would no longer have to spend my time under his guiding wing; his little Raspberry had become a man.
Needless to say, we had peanut butter and jelly sandwiches that year.