Now In Neko Flavour!
Last night, Mel tried to teach me the card game of Gin. I myself had never played it before; the only gin I knew was the kind you added to tonic water. So there we were, sitting on our futon couch, working away on our cards (with Mel having so many sets I'm sure she won despite me reaching Gin first) and munching on some chips & salsa, with Shady the dog curled up on a pillow on the floor, and Chance the cat spread out Sphinx-like on the back of the couch.
About halfway through, the game found itself temporarily due to random act of cat. You see, Chance decided to hop down from the couch, walk over our cards and sniff Shady to see if she was up for a play/wrestling session. This unto itself wasn't much of a problem. However, I've since had to discuss with Chance the problems of jumping down off the back of the couch, and having your back paw land right in the middle of the salsa bowl.
So we had poor Chance in quite a great deal of shock as his paw landed in something cold and squishy, whereas Mel & I were trying not to get him to walk with his salsa-covered foot all over the couch. In the end, while Mel dabbed away the salsa marks on the couch, I had the pleasure of lurching Chance over to the bathroom, whereupon I stuck his foot in the sink and ran it under some water. All the while Chance was staring up at me, and doing his sad little Dilophosaur-hooting thing in protest.
Ultimately, there was no harm done--neither the couch nor Chance was permanently stained by the salsa. And oddly enough, out of this arises
Today's Lesson: aside from the occasional hair on the tongue, it's still all right to eat salsa that your housecat accidentally stepped in.
(And upon reading that, hygiene freaks everywhere are no doubt screaming at me.)
posted by Phillip at 5:31 AM
