ricketyclick » cat lady http://ricketyclick.com/blog Don't Expect Me to be Nice. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:54:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Crazy http://ricketyclick.com/blog/index.php/2009/06/20/crazy/ http://ricketyclick.com/blog/index.php/2009/06/20/crazy/#comments Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:50:27 +0000 Dave http://ricketyclick.com/blog/?p=3405 I was standing in the grocery story checkout line when I smelled…cat box. For some reason, I thought it was me, for a moment, then noticed the woman behind me had two bags of cat food on the conveyor belt.

Her faded denim dress had heavy yellow stains on it.

She was, apparently, the first crazy cat lady I’ve ever met personally.

She caught my eye for a moment, and I think she knew I’d noticed the stains, and that “crazy cat lady” was in my mind. She looked resigned, maybe pleading, just a little: “But… I’m not really that bad. Please don’t write me off as a non-person.”

I’m trying not to, but I can’t help myself. I’m no neat freak, ask anybody who knows me; but I can’t remember ever once wearing clothing with multiple cat urine stains on it.

Still: there, but for the grace of the guy asleep at the switch….

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