Coco

            Robbie and I were sitting in our room in Hays 314 [hit us up ladies ;) ] discussing what we were going to do in D-Will’s class that day. Robbie, as usual, was claiming that he had the best idea for a comic character. His character was a chocolate lab named “Coco” who always wanted to eat chocolate, but like the coyote and roadrunner, Coco was always failing in acquiring the chocolate. To be honest, I was thinking to myself that this was actually a good idea for a comic character.

            It was time for Dr. William’s class, which means that it was time for me to start hauling my little butt to class before I was late. I sit in my normal spot in class as the discussion over “The Comic Toolbox” was occurring. We briefly analyzed concepts such as the “Rule of Nine” and many others. Finally it was time for the comic character creating portion of class. We were told to come up with three characters. Robbie and I looked at each other thinking the same exact thing. “We got this in the bag.” Something about us being roommates enables us to know what we are thinking most of the time. Anyways, we obviously decide Coco is a must. We describe Coco in great details from her flaws to her human qualities. Coco has to be a winner for this comic character competition. We come up with two other characters rather quickly. From a piece of paper to a little kid named “Nalyd”, we think to ourselves that we are the most hilarious human beings alive on this earth.

            Our turn to present our comic characters arrives, and we present them to the rest of the class. We first start off with Coco, who was supposed to be the star of the show. However after finishing up our presentation of Coco, we receive no laughter from anyone in the class. The second and third characters yield the same product, no laughter. How could these people not think that these characters were hysterical? I was dying of laughter just coming up with them!

We thought we would have the rule of nine on our side but apparently not. Despite the failure of making everyone else laugh, Robbie and I felt like it did not matter because it made us laugh. We heard several other people’s characters through the course of the class period. In all honesty, they were all pretty funny. Honestly days like these make college more enjoyable despite the rigorous and painful courses that we must take throughout our 4 or 5 years of education for our undergrad. I hope that in the near future we do a similar activity. I’m always down for a good laugh.