A cockroach stepped out from behind the ketchup, gave me a quick impassive once-over, decided that I was of the Brahmin faith, and walked earnestly across the table on errands of his own. Somebody had left a newspaper on the bench beside me, and I picked it up and swatted the cockroach, permitting his soul to transmigrate into the body of a quartermaster.

He won a silver medal with Mike Wolfs at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the men's Star event and a bronze with Eric Jespersen at the 1992 Summer Olympics in the same event. David Ross MacDonald (born January 27 1965 in Vancouver British Columbia Canada) is a Canadian sailor.

He began sailing at the age of 11. He won a silver medal with Mike Wolfs at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the men's Star event and a bronze with Eric Jespersen at the 1992 Summer Olympics in the same event.