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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
lord help us all...
i started putting in bold the most exasperating of these rules but halfway through i realized i was going to end up with almost the whole thing in bold.
rule 3 : my cat likes to hide off to one side of the room when she knows i'll be walking past. then, she leaps out and goes tearing across the room in front of me, just under my feet, as i try desperately not to 1. step on her 2. fall down. obviously, preferred times for this game are : when it's dark (extra surprise points !), when i am carrying a cup of hot tea i have just made (extra danger points !), when i am carrying anything voluminous enough to prevent me from seeing her (extra death-defying exploit points !).
i told me father about this and he said "well that'll teach you to leave Camus lying around."
me : "... ???"
my father : "Camus said once 'every morning i get up and ask myself "is today the day i kill myself ?"' your cat clearly asks herself the same question, and she does test runs to be ready."
moral of the story : don't let your cats read Camus, if you value your life (and sanity).
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I think some of this maybe got lost in translation. I assume that the question my cats ask themselves is, "Is today the day I kill the human," and that the subsequent test runs -- targeted as they are at me -- are the proof of that.
I'm pretty sure they are not asking themselves "Is today the day I kill myself." My cats are the least suicidal creatures on the face of the earth.