Saturday, July 14, 2007

The kindness of strangers.

Whereas a dog never forgets a kindness, a cat never remembers them; instead, he will tip your glass of water into your bath and pretend it's a plugged-in hairdryer.

Whereas a dog will take up all the room in your bed, a cat will wait until you are vulnerably sleeping and then suddenly pounce on your face with all the fury of hell, fangs and claws first.

Sometimes I think I should get GM his own pet cat to bully. But mostly I am afraid they will form a rogue gang and straight-up murder me.

Someone: Will I ever get the life I thought I was going to get?
Someone else: No one gets the life they think they were going to get.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

What was the life you expected to get?

Or by life in this one do you mean 'cat'?

CL said...

I didn't expect to be (contniually) scarred by a cat at age 30. I didn't expect to be living in a state of low-grade fear over a 7-lb feline roommate, I'll tell ya that much.