Awesome / Adrian Mole

• Saving his sons from their house burning down at the end of The Cappucino Years. The last paragraphs deserve to be quoted as being particularly awesome:
  "I have often wondered how I would stand up against fire, flood and tempest. Would I run in panic and try to save my own life? Until tonight, I suspected I would do just that. But when I woke to the exploding glass and the choking smoke and the sharp flames on the stairs, I found that my own life was unimportant to me. Nothing else mattered apart from removing my sons from danger.
  "I expect that by tomorrow I will have embellished the story and given myself a heroic status I do not deserve, but all the same, on this night at this hour, I am pleased to record that I acquitted myself well."
• Adrian's letter to Mr Scruton, which causes him to not only have a Villainous Breakdown and retire, but also gets rid of Mr Jones, the P.E. teacher who Adrian also despises. As per usual, Adrian doesn't realise that any of this is his doing.
• The person who gets Barry Kent to stop shaking Adrian down for money? Adrian's Grandmother. She put the shits up both Barry and his father that Barry pays back all the money he extorted from Adrian.

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