coconut in car cup holder...

... just don't fit!!! they don't make my car's cup holder big enough to hold my coconut with juice in it...!

was at mickeyplace for lunch with Faye - i'm on a mission: if they don't want me, then i want to eat them out of food, one meal at a time ;)
huge huge HUGE line of ppl lining up at different kiosk, apparently it is the Last BBQ of The Season and FoodNetwork was onsite to cover this as well. general confusion as to which line goes to where, but hey, free food - so just get in line...

i had poke salmon (yum!), strange taro-in-sauce thing, bbq short ribs (TASTY!), grilled seabass (dry, and isn't seabass on endangered list of seafood we shouldn't eat?!) and curry-sauce on corn on the cob (weird). because of the long lines, we basically lined up, repeat, repeat sat down and ate and then had to run... oh yeah i finally got my coconut juice in the coconut!!!

(short tangent, a repeat for some who've heard the story, but when i was living in vancouver for my 8-month internship, i had bought a coconut cuz i wanted the juice and meat... came home, tried to open it... didn't know how... tried a screw driver... then decided the corner of my chinese-rectangular cleaver might do the job... guess what? the coconut dented my cleaver!!! i even threw the darn coconut on the ground from above my head, and it still wouldn't open.
So in the end, i threw the coconut away, in spite, because it was just sitting there mocking me, i hear the swooshing of the juice when i shook it but i can't get to it!!! ever since then, whenever i see vendors selling coconuts that they will open for you, i can't resist buying it. it's a matter of principle...)

ok as i am typing this i'm sipping on my coconutand dialed into a phone meeting. the juice is gone, and i am once again left to ponder how to get into the coconut to extract the meat... it's there again.. mocking me, since the only entry point is the straw size hole drilled into the top...

any ideas? has to be things i can find around the office...

***UPDATE: i now have a dented letter opener at my desk. i've been scraping bits of coconut meat with the end of my straw... go straw go...***