"How do you open it?" asked Fred.
"Some treasures are hard to access," his grandfather said enigmatically.
Fred tried using a knife, a screwdriver, but gave up in frustration.
For years, the disappointing diode gathered dust on Fred's bookshelf.
One day a friend saw the geode and said he could open it with a chisel and hammer. When the geode was split, it was even more beautiful than Fred imagined.