Dave Cook's the Turkey

"He got a ladle of the turkey gravy, and ran around the house smearing it on the light bulbs." Now why would someone do something as obscure as this you may ask, but the answer lies in with erratic behavior displayed by a male in distress. In the story Dave Cooks the Turkey by Stuart Mcneal, turns a tale of an everyday life of an everyday man named Dave into something resembling a puppy on ice. The humour displayed in this short story mostly fits under something that we can relate to as we all know what the Christmas rush feels like and Dave being an everyday man easily fits into comedy routine of a desperate male during late December. Dave is struck by the sudden realization that "[l]ooking after the turkey, something he had promised to do, meant buying it as well as putting it in the oven." As it also shows clear that lack of knowledge on the subject of poultry has consequences as well as "it became clear what grade B meant. Dave's turkey looked like it had made a break from the slaughter house and dragged itself a block or two before it was captured and beaten to death. [He] began to refer to his bird as Butch. Perhaps, he thought, Butch died in a knife fight." Dave becoming flustered by his meager burden had began to mix up loved ones with meat as he says his "[t]urkey and [his] kids are at the Food Bank. I brought Morley here so they could cook her for me." These common misconceptions generally don't stand very well in court when you cook your wife over an open flame instead a bird, Dave had become quite attached with a bird named Butch.