Idiot Boy is an idiot

[desperance]

If I have ever given the impression that Mac was in any way smarter than the dumbest cat that ever was, I should like once and for all to resile from that position, with apologies for misleading you.

I was in the kitchen, preparing a small ham omelette for my nuncheon. Barry was attending, as is proper. Mac - arrived. In a flurry, doing sort of kangaroo-jumps and twisting in the air, twisting more on the ground, looking vaguely like he meant to bite at his own hindquarters before bounding off again in a terrible scurry.

Barry and I followed. He did the same thing all over the living-room, and wouldn't let either of us near. By this time, I confess I was a little concerned. Baz was so agitated, he chased Mac up the stairs and then down again, the clever boy; it meant I could snatch the idiot up at the foot of the stairs, and see what the problem was.

He had a very small sticky paper price-ticket attached to the fur of his hind foot.

Sticky!! Paper!! On his foot!!!

I detached it. He investigated anxiously, found it gone, and all was calm and peaceful in the Mac-verse. Off to the sunny windowsill as though nothing had happened whatsoever.

Barry got ham for being helpful. And for not leaping around like a lunatic, that too.

In other news: I bought a bottle of olive oil today, almost entirely because it had the word autochthonous on the label. "...produced solely from Cuquillo olives. It's a gold oil, fruity aroma and sweet taste. This is the expression of autochthonous variety." As opposed to its brother oil, from Picual olives, which is described as "charmingly bitter." So I bought that too, being somewhat charmingly bitter myself.

Comments

[wldhrsjen3.livejournal.com]

Heeee! Too funny! :D

[desperance.livejournal.com]

My younger boy is a very special snowflake. *g*

[possumqueen.livejournal.com]

If cats and dogs (and fish) lived long enough, like elephants and parrots and tortoises and whales, they would eventually have enough life experience to grow out of the toddler stage and understand that a sticky paper on your foot is not the end of the farking universe!

I can has perspective. My own children display this for me daily as they age and develop. Count on a toddler for daily (if not hourly) end-of-the-world hysteria over absolutely nothing. The angels stand by like parents and just say, "WTF?" ;)

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Yup. I am an uncle eleven times over, and an adoptive uncle many times beyond that; I have seen these terrors and traumas. We mostly survived them.

On the other hand, if you had seen me last week when I Couldn't Find My Recipe Book... (Perspective? Wassat?)

[possumqueen.livejournal.com]

Your cats were laughing at you. ;p Silly primate.

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

Needless to say, you are far to good a person ever to either stick a piece of tape on one of her hind heels, or put tinfoil booties on him.

Isn't he lucky?

Because you'd never, ever torment a poor puddytate that way.

Ever.

At all.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

autochthonous: indigenous? Does it mean that this is a local varietal? Um... this label isn't originally English speaking, is it?

[desperance.livejournal.com]

That's what I'm taking it to mean: aboriginal, sprung from its own proper soil.

The oil is Spanish, as is the distributing company. But, but: if English is not your first language, how on earth would you happen upon authochthonous? Unless it's a more-or-less transliteration from a legitimate Spanish adjective...?

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Unless it's a more-or-less transliteration from a legitimate Spanish adjective...?

Given that it's Greek anyway, that seems more likely than not (it's certainly as good in French as in English, if not better, French being rather more tolerant of the classical forms).

[pogodragon.livejournal.com]

Puts me in mind of the time our cat flap was destroyed (bits scattered all down the driveway) in the terrible incident of Molly vs Carrier Bag. That was fun for a while.

[devonellington.wordpress.com (from livejournal.com)]

Those cats are hilarious!

It's over 100 degrees here, with power outages, so I'm using cool washcloths on their footpads to cool them down. The twins think I'm insane, but Elsa kind of likes it . . .

Did I tell you I sold the novella HEX BREAKER? I'll let you know when we have a release date.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Hex Breaker - sold to whom? Congratulations!