I've cooked lots of time-consuming dishes-- Nana's apple pie (from scratch), roast chicken with stuffing, pad thai-- but I've never had the feeling I had when I looked down at the six full seafood skewers I made recently: adulthood. I am officially a grown up.

Only grown-ups make shishkebabs. Teenagers bake pies, university students roast meats, but only adults cut foods into small chunks, run those chunks through with skewers, and then sear them on a barbecue.

I'm going to go edit the Wikipedia entry for shishkebab to include this undeniable fact.