I knew that would happen

[desperance]

Cats and boxes, we know about. Cats and padded envelopes - well, those of us with cats, we know about cats and padded envelopes.

High places? That too.

Put all of these together - a box full of padded envelopes, set in a high place - and we have Barry's perfect place.

We had it.

The box, alas, was a little wider than the shelf on which it sat. Which wouldn't have mattered at all, if it had been left to itself.

But it wasn't, of course. It was occupied by cat. And sometimes by Other Cat, who cannot resist anywhere that Barry is. Sometimes - as, f'rexample, this morning, when I would've photographed it if there had been power in my camera - one of them sat in the box and the other sat outside it, each veiled from the other by a single envelope standing high and proud between them, and they biffed at each other around it. It was very funny, and seemed to amuse them too.

Now? Alas. Barry turned round in the box once too often. The box is now on the floor, as are all the envelopes that I had so laboriously gathered together into this useful box-thing.

The impressive thing was watching Bazza leap from the box even as it fell: from that most insecure tumbling object, he leaped to another high shelf, and thence to a computer monitor, to a filing cabinet, to a desk, to ground, and away. In about half a second all told. A cartoon would have illustrated him as a blur. Barry Blur: he should probably be a strip in Viz magazine. Chris always said that the best ideas were alliterative...

Comments

[possumqueen.livejournal.com]

Nimble little minxes, are they not? Masters of the "I meant to do that" impossible save at the last second. ;) And they come out of it looking prom fresh, if a little overexcited and "must lick my paws quickly" cool. Booyah!

[fjm.livejournal.com]

Imagine Miss P walking along a book shelf.
Now imagine a box on that book shelf which is lying on its side so a curious cat can walk in, but which has half its length hanging over the edge of the shelf.

Plummet
Bang
Pause
Casual saunter from box.

[moshui.livejournal.com]

That, of course, is the other way to do it: never mind the Great Saving Leap, just treat it as an elevator going down.

[ms-cataclysm.livejournal.com]

"I meant to do that "

Bazza