Money Give Me Analysis

Sedaris writes about how when people are younger they are willing to take money from people as a compliment. However, as you age it is very uncommon to take money from people if there is no legitimate reason on why they are giving it to you. When I was younger I always took money from people if they offered it to me. Now that I am older I never take money from people unless I have earned it by working. When Sedaris gives the hippie his moms dollar just outside of the store and she gets mad at him reminds me of my mom. If I were to give someone money that was sitting out on the street she would get mad at me and lecture me on how that person probably didn 't really need the money and they were probably just going to go and use it to by beer

His allowance was three dollars a week. I hear a lot of people talk about an allowance but I have never had one. Instead of an allowance if I didn 't have any money my parents would help pay for my gas and sometimes if I was really lucky they would give me money to go out to eat with my friends. These dates usually included trips to Buffalo Wild Wings which is a pretty cheap place to eat. Other nights my mom would just give me money to go eat somewhere because she didn 't feel like cooking which was fine too. I think I would rather have them give me money for gas and food more than an allowance instead because then my parents could never ask “where is all your money from the allowance that we give you,” every time I ask them for gas money. It had to be very scary for Sedaris when he got into a scuffle with the Vietnam War Veteran at the fair. It might just be me but I feel like War Veterans get pushed over the edge way to easy. There was a Vietnam War Vet that lived in Hartford and he was really crazy. If someone stepped on his lawn and he knew who your parents were he would call your parents and complain about you being on his property. There was also another Veteran that lived in the country and he gated up his driveway and closed it every night so that nobody could ever enter and bother