Human pear tree

When I was a little kid, I ran into the living room, distraught because I had accidentally swallowed a pear seed.
"What's gonna happen?" I asked my dad and brother.
"Well," my dad replied, "pretty soon you're gonna have a pear tree growing in your stomach, and you'll have branches and leaves coming out of your ears."
I think I left the living room more distraught than when I had entered it.

Such was life in the Hellmann household.