Exploring....

"Does there come a day in every man´s life when he looks around and says to himself, I´ve got to weed out some of these owls? I can´t be alone in this, can I?"

This book contains different essays such as Attaboy. The story starts with Sedaris being an old guy and he just got out of cinema so he heard someone screaming "help!", he got closer and realise that the reason why that person shouted, was because a boy was scratching an announcement on the street, so the parent´s boy started argueing to the man that he didn´t have the right to touch his son, so Sedaris started remembering how his parents were. Their family was really special in the way that it was no ones fault but them, like in the situation he just passed, his father instead of deffending him, he would have congratulate the man.

So he started thinking about a specific moment in which his father looked like a fool.

First of all his mother was driving one day and a guy shouted to her "Bi%&#h", so when they arrived home, she told her husband what had happen and he took it personal, little Sedaris knew who was the boy but he didnt want to tell it, so his sister told her dad who was, a guy named Tommy Reimer.

So one day at the dinner, someone knocked the door, it was Tommy, so his dad stood up and took him by the neck, raised him off the ground and his legs were flailing; Lisa his sister shouted, he is Tommy Williams! 

In that moment Sedaris remembered the embarrassment his dad suffered, and he had to swallow his pride and ask for forgiveness.

NEW VOCABULARY

Flailing: Move erratically

Oh my god! He is flailing his arms, he might be drowning.

Thawed: Defrost; change from frozen solid to liquid.

That ice cube has thawed before I could put it on my water.

Beneath: below

There´s my bag! Beneath your wallet.

Attaboy: (Informal) Used to show approval to a boy or man.

Attaboy! You won the game.