Me Talk Pretty One Day # 2

David Sedaris
Non-Fiction (Biography)
Pages 60- 83

The next Chapter entitled, You Can't Kill the Rooster, is one of David's funniest stories I've read so far. It's about David's brother Paul, a North Carolina born native who by the time he was in first grade talked worse then a toothless sailor. Since he was the fourth child the parents didn't care enough to stop him from using such horrific words and making very inappropriate comments. Paul refers to himself as the Rooster because he believes you can't kill the Rooster. The conversations between Paul and the farther are hilarious, but are to crude to repeat. The father doesn't care that Paul talks like a thug in the Ghetto, but instead is the only one who can really understand him. The next chapter is about a dog named Melina that the parents bought and loved more then their children. They showed the dog affection and felt proud  to be the owners of a very large great Dane. The mother loved to snuggle up with Melina on the floors in every room in the entire house. She also taught him very unique tricks. One example of these tricks is that she told David to pretend to punch her and she would yell "Melina help I'm hurt," the dog would come running and tackle David to the ground attempting to bite his neck. The funniest part of this incident wasn't the tackle itself, but the fact that the mom was cheering the dog on to bite her son's neck. The dad was very proud of the dog and felt respected when neighbors complimented the Great Dane as he took it for walks, he felt a sense of accomplishment that he never felt with any of his children. After, his wife dies the father lives a couple more years with the Great Dane before he puts her down because of medical issues.

I really enjoy David's sense of humor and find many of his stories to be hilarious. I can relate to the Rooster in the way he talks, I'm sure many of people say things like that with their friends when they're in private, but to talk like that out in public and to your parents isn't right. One of Paul's funniest quotes is when he calls his dad in the middle of the night around one in the morning to tell him, " I havent seen (a girl) in so long i would throw (a whole truck load) of stones at it (edited). I can't imagine anyone saying that to their parents, let alone at one in the morning.