apos;t going to smoke that in here...I just Scotchgarded the drapes" (Rooster at the Hitchin' Post, 1).
             Sedaris attempts to also hold up a mirror to the reader and forces him or her to check themselves because he knows that his reader has their own absurdity. In attempting to do this, Sedaris draws a parallel and establishes a new, more profound connection with the reader than the one previously mentioned – as David Sedaris examines himself in the situations he is experiencing, the reader vicariously does the same. Sedaris' irreverence of societal expectations is a ticking time bomb just searching for a facet of human absurdity (usually associated with American culture) to set it off.
             Sedaris alludes many times to his dysfunctional family life as a subject of many of his experiences turned essay. Sometimes he overtly scathes his more bizarre family members and other times he is a bit more subtle. For instance, in his essay "Six to Eigh
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