Help wanted!

[triner2001]

Hi y'all!

It's me again,  School is out for the summer and I survived another 
IEP season, as well as the pack up of the room. All our rooms are 
being renovated this summer (to be done by August 1--we'll see about 
that) so *everything* had to be packed up.  And they started the 
demolition before we left!

Earlier today, in what can only be described in a Moment of Insanity, 
I bought a coconut.  I read the directions "to prepare coconut" and 
followed through.  Or rather, I *attempted* to follow through.  I 
knocked a hole in the eye and drained the milk with no problem.  It 
was with the step "Tap shell sharply on groove with hammer, revealing 
white flesh within" that I had problems.  I tapped sharply. Nothing.  
I banged the hell out of it. Nothing happened, outside of a lot of 
noise and frightening the cats.   

So, does anyone have any ideas?

Trina, who has also felt the scorn of the Smug Married...