My 46 year old Ack-O-Matic boiler had some issues this week.
I went to work early on Sunday morning and when I walked in at 5:30 pm I said, "It's cold in here!"
David said, "I noticed that when I got up this morning."
So after I checked to make sure the pilot light had indeed gone out, and relit said pilot light, I again explained to my kids about how there are certain things that they should really call me about right away.
So Monday comes along and I have a plumber guy come out who installs some new parts in my long-past-intended-useful-life boiler. Amid the noise he made and the noise made by 5 teenagers (no school - snow) who spent the day neutralizing each other on a video game, there wasn't much sleep...although Dangit (the cat) was even more snuggelly than usual and served as a decent source of heat while I was trying to sleep between all the banging and name-calling.
Then, while I was at work on Tuesday, the radio personalities said that some statistic shows that cat people tend to be smarter than dog people...by about 38% or something like that...when factoring in higher education and such.
And last night, while I was at the other job, a stray cat showed up at the building.
"Hmmmmm", I thought to myself. "I think I'll double the educational gap between myself and all of my dog-owning neighbors."
So I ignored the fact that half of my neighbors either currently are or are retired teachers and brought the stray cat home.
It's going to have to be an outside cat for now. It's full of cockle burrs and smells like a barn. Plus, she's not declawed and I'd hate to find that she'd used my dinner table for a scratching post.
I do hope she sticks around. I've decided to name her "Phukoff". That way, when my neighbors are back from Arizona (they go every winter) and the weather is nice, I can walk outside while they're camped out under the canopy of the camper they have (which fills a good portion of my little dead-end street) and say...
"Dangit! Phukoff!"
...and walk back in. :)
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Why do you think I am so smart, anyway? Duh.
ReplyDeletebwhahahaha that is so funny, I like the name if I had a dog or cat thats what I would name it too. hahahaha
ReplyDeleteSheila - I think you just seem smarter because your cat is unbelievably dumb. And I hope you appreciate the fact that I only THOUGHT about pointing out that my Ack-O-Matic is the same age you are and making some comment about how everything that age seems to have issues. :)
ReplyDeleteDoodles - I sadly have to report that the cat seems to have wandered away. I drove around and checked the intersections for kitty litter (in this case, a flattened, frozen, kitty frisbee) but found none...so maybe it'll turn up again.
If not, the name hadn't been applied yet so I can still use it...and I have plenty of people trying to dump their pets on me!
Oh yeah. I don't have anything against any of my neighbors. If any of them should come up missing, they will NOT turn up under one of my flower beds - so their stupid dogs can quit starting the holes for me!
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