Seagull

The Seagull appears in The Long Haul as a minor antagonist and is on the first characters page also. Despite being a minor antagonist, it was often used in the promos and trailers for the book.



Story
Greg and his family are driving when they reach a long bridge. Greg's dad who is scared of bridges hands the wheel over to Rodrick. While Rodrick is driving the car, Greg is eating a packet of cheese curls, seeing the seagull, he throws a cheese curl at it and it catches it. Later it flies on top of the car and asks for more, Greg tries to give it another but it falls down into the car, since the sunroof was open it got inside. It asked Greg for more, but since he didn't want to give, it got angry and tried to steal the packet. There was a tug of war between Greg and the Seagull over the packet, but Greg loses causing all the chips to fall from the packet and spread all over the car.