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April 14, 2005
The Cat's Really Out of the Bag Now...
My heart is just now returning to its normal rate. Whew. I saw my life flash before my eyes.
I'm housesitting again this week. I had a coupon for some desperately needed new tennis shoes, so I stopped at the nearby mall for the shoes and also a trip into the half-price children's bookstore next to the shoe place.
The people at the bookstore gave me a big brown shopping bag. Because I had my hands full with moving everything else into the house (laundry, laptop, etc.), I combined all my purchases into that bag. Since I got here Tuesday, the bag has been sitting by one of the couches, still with my empty shoebox and a couple of kids books.
I decided to move the bag just a bit ago because the dog kept sniffing it and I wondered if there was something under the bag, like maybe a chew toy, that she was wanting. So I put my hands on the bag handles and lifted...
MMRROWWW! HISS!
It seems Sterling the cat had taken up residence inside my shopping bag. He literally jumped out of the bag, dug his claws into my jeans, and howled a very frightened meow. Then he darted off and ran under the boss's bed.
We're both not quite recovered yet. I think I may have given the cat a nervous breakdown. I'm not far from it myself right now. Whew.
So, in my sorry little pun, I must say that the cat is indeed out of the bag now...
(*for my foreign readers, "let the cat out of the bag" is an idiom for telling a secret!)
Posted by Anna at April 14, 2005 10:09 PM
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Posted by: LJ at April 22, 2005 06:07 PM
Our cats love to hide in boxes and bags too. I think it's their way of getting us back for making them poop in little plastic boxes.
Posted by: Bry-2000 at April 23, 2005 09:06 AM
It a a cat thang -- most cats have pulled that little maneuver. 
Posted by: Nicolette Rivers at May 4, 2005 12:22 PM