True Halloween Cat Story

My friend Harold’s two cats have the run of his place, and like many cats, they tend to get into mischief whenever they feel like it. The younger black one is especially curious, and is mesmerized by the refrigerator. Whenever Harold opens it, the black cat will weave his way through Harold’s legs, stick his head and front paws into the bottom of the open fridge and start snooping around.

One day Harold was in a hurry, and didn’t notice that his cat, in that slinky, quiet way cats do, had actually sneaked all the way in, on top of the veggie compartment. When Harold hastily closed the door, his kitty was imprisoned in the cooler.

Now this could easily have been a tragedy, with Harold returning hours (or days) later to find his cat on ice in the kitty morgue. Fortunately for his feline, however, Harold felt a need for the fridge a few minutes later.

He tells it this way.

“Nothing,” Harold says, “absolutely nothing that has ever happened in your life, prepares you for opening the refrigerator and seeing something move.”

Boo!

© 2008 Greg Tamblyn, Motivational Humorist and pet lover.