Guys Read: My Parents Give My Bedroom to a Biker: A Short Story from Guys Read: Funny Business
By Paul Feig, Adam Rex and Jon Scieszka
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This all started when Steve wouldn’t take out the trash. A short story from the acclaimed collection Guys Read: Funny Business, edited by Jon Scieszka.
Paul Feig
Paul Feig is the creator of the critically acclaimed TV show, Freaks & Geeks, and the author of the adult memoirs Kick Me and Superstud. He is also known to audiences as Mr. Poole from the TV series Sabrina, the Teenage Witch. When he’s not exploring new frequencies, he lives with his wife in California.
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Guys Read - Paul Feig
My Parents Give My Bedroom to a Biker
By Paul Feig
A Short Story from
Guys Read: Funny Business
Volume 1 of the Guys Read Library of Great Reading
Edited by Jon Scieszka
With an illustration by Adam Rex
Contents
Cover
Title Page
My Parents Give My Bedroom to a Biker
Guys E-Read
Biographies
Back Ad
Copyright
About the Publisher
image1MY PARENTS GIVE MY BEDROOM TO A BIKER
BY PAUL FEIG
This all started because I wouldn’t take out the trash.
Now, before you go judging me, I just want to make it clear that I’m not the kind of lazy kid who’s bad or hates to be useful around the house. I’ve helped my mom vacuum and my dad clean out the garage so many times I should get some kind of gold medal from the President of the United States. I’ve heard them tell our relatives on several occasions that I’m a good son.
I’m the only kid I know who actually likes broccoli and eats it at every meal. Even my teachers say I’m pretty polite and responsible and always get my homework in on time. (Well, except for once when our neighbor’s dog escaped and attacked me when I was waiting at the bus stop with my science project and since it was a moldy bread experiment, a dog actually did eat my homework.)
So, the fact that my parents would get that upset at me about something so stupid and trivial as not taking out the garbage one time only makes them look bad, not me.
Especially when you hear about all the trouble it caused.
This whole insane episode started on this really hot day in July when it was super humid out. You know, that kind of humidity where you come out of your air-conditioned house and before you even close the door behind you, you’re sweatier than some guy who just ran across a boiling desert. I had decided to avoid the heat and was comfortably lying on the living room couch watching a supercool show on