Please Remain Seated in Your Comfort Zone is a casual collection of observations, recollections, opinions and stories crafted from the culmination a life well lived. Gigi Wolf has taken the time to gift readers with her comical perspective on topics as varied as public breastfeeding, fad diets, aging and travel. The stories are short and span many decades of scientific advancement and pop culture. The text is so laden with humor that barely a word is written that doesn’t possess some sort of double meaning, pun or other comedic device.
Wolf’s candid commentary on generational differences resonates on so many levels! In one account she laments the ongoing struggle with technology. How would she get new songs on her MP3 player if her son weren’t around? “Sit on a corner in raggedy clothes holding a cardboard sign that says, ‘I need a millennial. Please give generously.’” Later, in a truly ironic glass-half-full sort of way, Wolf debates the virtues of doing housework without putting on her glasses, “which results in the happy thought that the house is much cleaner than it really is.”
Gigi Wolf is a talented humorist who can turn even the most mundane activity into a story worth hearing. Please Remain Seated in Your Comfort Zone is the sort of book that will appeal to folks of any gender, background or age, although millennials might need somebody to explain some the jokes!
