Dave Cooks the Turkey

Have you ever been in a situation where you have no idea what your doing and you time is draining away. Dave from "dave cooks the turkey" by Stuart Maclean finds himself in a predicament where he has to cook a turkey for the Christmas dinner to help out his wife. Stuart uses many different types of comedy. Dave faces situations where many people can relate to. Daves first commical error was making a promise, one of which he would have a hard time keeping. He offered to help and was received the supposedly easy task of cooking a turkey. Dave quickly realizes that "looking after the turkey, meant buying it aswell as putting it in the oven" the task already looking fatal the day before dave sets out on a midnight turkey hunt and returns with a mediocar "grade B" turkey. After he personally thawed the turkey narrowly dodging failure and feeling good that his plan was working. Although as most people have experianced the dream of a perfect plan ends in failure. Dave fails to ask how to set to the oven time to 1:30 and he in all his brilliance devises a bulletproof plan that can help him this time. He hails a cab and goes to "first class hotel" where he hopes they can cook the turkey for him in time. Dave awkwardly embarreses himself infront of his freind jim. Not only does Jim stare at him weird but later on the day he would arrive at his house, where his whole plan would unravel.
From reading this commical story about a man lazily but somewhat unsuccesfully solving his christmas problems only to have them blow up in his face at the end is a situation many can relate to.

expository essay

Sitting quietly awaiting the decision, not to nervous but interested to know the results. The room is silent, some chatter begins amongst the room as the teacher arrives in front of me and I receive the first test results of my life, scoring an average 15/20 on a spelling test. At the moment i was unaware to the long chain of results and disappointments to follow in the steps of maturity in the near future. Soon i would graduate through the minuscule education process of elementry with enough basic knowledge to continue on.

Years later I find myself applying for my first job at the all famous prosperous franchise of Tim Horton's, with ambitions set. I quickly learn one of my first lessons of the real world, rejection. Applying everywhere and receiving no calls. Eventually though, I would find a place to work over the course of the next 3 years. Once again, I did not know the extreme impact on that this would have on my life. With this job i would accumulate a large amount of money stockpiling in a bank account over those 3 years. I would not let the money just standstill in an account, I would go forth and open savings bonds which would be useful in the near future.

I soon found myself in need of buying a vehicle and the money I saved found good use. It was then that I found another lesson of the real world, expenses. I never thought about the many expenses that come with the possession of a car, as i thought that buying the car would be the most expensive. With it came many responsibilities, the fact that you risk the lives of others every time you step into the vehicle as well as your own. The price of gas, winter tires and other general car accessories. These events in my life have taught me a sense of maturity. The ability to juggle an ever growing in difficulty education, maintain a presence in the workforce and balance the many finances in life have proved the maturity in those events