couch kitty counter-attack

Pre-amble on smile stories -- term came from my time as a toastmaster member where a meeting starts with a simple little story by someone about something amusing or heart-warming. i'm going with that tradition and going to keep at it.

Might I talk about my cats from time to time because they drive me nuts sometimes? Other times they just amuse me. It's a 50/50 because I have no idea what they think of me but i get a kick out of their odd habits.

With gradual introduction of course, I shall try to sum one up. Black as a shadow, Gabe causes me more grief than is normal. Eats too much and protests too much when we cut down his diet getting under foot in the kitchen. Without being superstitious, I trip over him.... CONSTANTLY; as he looks for attention.

So any time I can get a chuckle from something dumb he does that seems like karma being justified for the times he trips me up is just great.

Fooling around on a bass guitar, I do get some R&R on occasion. Put the guitar down on the couch and didn't think anything of it to leave my amp turned on as I walked away.

Should be noted how Gabe has a particular pattern in the evenings. He has a crush on a ginger cat that prowls around the block. Without fail, he jumps up on the end of the couch and looks out the front window, whipping his tail back and forth. Being a house-bound cat with no hunting instincts ever displayed, it's a fantasy far from happening kind of hope.

Countless times Gabe's tail has ended up in the ear of whomever has the misfortune of sitting down on that end of the couch. This pattern repeats nightly and frequently.

So as Gabe jumped up to watch for his fantasy ginger kitty and connected with my bass guitar, you can imagine what followed in quick succession. Guitar amp thrummed; startled cat jumped 2ft in the air; amp reverberated from additional tail thrashing; confused cat fell off couch; bass guitar for the win; cat sulked off; Phil laughed at ridiculousness of it all.

Karma justice to ear tickling kitten was served.

-- PLR --