Book: Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris

You either know of David Sedaris or you don't. He makes me laugh, even out loud on occasion, while I read these essays.

Every page was funny to me:

A page at random: He is waiting in line at a Starbuck's behind:

"...Mrs. Dunstan, a towering, dough-colored pyramid of a woman wearing oversize glasses...Behind her came a man I guessed to be her husband, and after looking up at menu board, she turned to him, 'A latte,' she said, 'Now is that the thing that Barbara likes to get, the one with whipped cream, or is that called something else?'...Then her husband squinted up at the board, deciding after a good long while that he'd try one of those mocha something or others....

It's one thing to be jolly and talkative--my mother was that way. The difference between her and Mrs. Dunstan is that my mother had a sense of her audience -- not just the person she was talking to but others around her who were listening in. 'I can see you've got a line, ' she'd have said at some point...She'd also have made her chatter more compelling. In my mother's version, the underemployed son would sleep each day until dusk, possibly in a dank basement...She spoke in a voice that addressed everyone and invited them to join in. Mrs. Dunstan, on the other hand, was simply loud. Loud and just  as dull as she could be.

The Dunstans' bill came to eight dollars, which, everyone agreed, WAS a lot to pay for two cups of coffee. But they WERE large ones, and this WAS a vacation, sort of. Not like a trip to Florida, but you certainly couldn't do that at the drop of a hat, especially with gas prices the way they are and looking to go even higher."

And so on.....

Maybe not everyone's idea of humor, but it is mine....although the title was weird. There is an owl essay but it has nothing to do with diabetes.