Have you ever locked yourself out of your apartment, on moving day, not once, but twice, after hours, on the weekend? If so, then you will be able to identify with this book. If not, then you will find the situation to be wildly amusing, and be thanking your lucky stars it didn't happen to you.

Sloane Crosley is comparable to Chelsea Handler in her ability to produce laughs. The essays she has in this book are hilarious, you won't soon forget them. In fact, I doubt you will have the ability to look at a plastic pony the same way again.

"I Was Told There'd Be Cake" opens with a story about plastic ponies. Sloane talks of the dread of dying suddenly and having her mother come to clean out her apartment and finding her secret stash. Her secret stash of ponies that is. The reason why she has all the ponies is quite funny, as is the way that she rids herself of the pony problem.

I loved the essay about her forays into volunteer work in the butterfly room of a museum. She ends up being scared of the creepy huge butterfly in the corner of the room, having nightmares about it, and quits. Unfortunately she accidentally takes one home with her on her shirt, so she ends up having to smuggle it back to the butterfly room, with fear of being prosecuted to the fullest extent.

The most shocking story is Smell This. Sloane has a dinner party for some friends, but when they all leave for the night and she goes into her bathroom she finds that one of them left a nasty present in the middle of the bathroom floor. What follows is her attempt at finding out who the perpetrator was, and not being all that successful in the process.

The book ends with Fever Faker. Sloane having always taken the healthy backseat to her sisters myriad of illnesses was psyched when she found out that she could have a chronic illness. The thought of finally getting some attention was worth the trips to the hospital! Things don't work out exactly as she has planned, and the story is a riot to read. An excellent ending to an excellent compilation of essays.

I loved every minute of this book and have offered it up to many people. Everyone I know that has read it liked it. Its an easy read, and the book is broken up into essays so it is easy to skip around and read them in what order you desire. This book would be a great vacation read.