Saturday, December 10, 2011

Conversations with My Cat, Norma

Me: Get out of here, cat.  Can't you see I'm taking a bath?  How about a little privacy?

Norma: Meow, I'm a cat.

Me: Don't give me that.

Norma: Look, I just want to hang out a little.  Do I look like I even care that you're naked?

Me: Ok, but do you have to sit directly on the edge of the bathtub?  I'm worried you're going to fall in.

Norma: I'm not going to fall in.  I have exceptionally good balance.

Me: You fell off the windowsill earlier.  I saw it.

Norma: [dips a paw in the bath water, shakes it off, then licks her paw]

Me: You know, you have a perfectly good bowl of water all your own in the other room.

Norma: I like this water.

Me: You're not secretly dreaming of eating me in a soup, are you?

Norma: [stares, then sticks her paw in the bath water again]

(Norma finally did actually fall into the bathtub today--fortunately for me, while it was still filling up and not with me in it.  Her indignant shock was pretty hilarious.)

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