David Sedaris "Big Boy"

The thing about David Sedaris is that the events he writes about aren't as common as we think, yet the feelings he goes through are ones we can apply to a vast array of situations, so much so it sometimes feels like you could sue him for breaking into your childhood and stealing your most awkward moments and making them his. Not only his, but telling them in a way funnier fashion than you ever dreamed possible. I've never been foiled by an abandoned turd in the toilet of a friend's house at an Easter party. But damn if I don't know the helpless, dear God why me? feeling of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, being completely innocent and undeserving of the bad-nay, despicable-luck given me by some force greater than myself, the gods themselves.