Now, surviving is a pretty low bar, and Pollack barely clears it, but he certainly does better than he did with that pre-school expulsion thing. He writes in the NYT Magazine about going to a "couples shower" at his mother-in-law's house in Nashville. What it involves:
Showering Together ][nytmag, why is the URL "funny-humor.html"? Is there an unfunny-humor section?]
The funnyhumor.htm thing is them trying to reassure themselves that readers will laugh and laugh, and not find it pathetic, as it actually is.