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> >We've all had trouble with our animals, but I don't think anyone can top

> >this one:

> > Calling in sick to work makes me uncomfortable. No matter how legitimate

> >my excuse, I always get the feeling that my boss thinks I'm lying.

> > On one recent occasion, I had a valid reason but lied anyway, because the

> >truth was just too darned humiliating. I simply mentioned that I had

> >sustained a head injury, and I hoped I would feel up to coming in the next

> >day. By then, I reasoned, I could think up a doozy to explain the bandage

> >on the top of my head. The accident occurred mainly because I had given in

> >to my wife's wishes to adopt a cute little kitty.

> >Initially, the new acquisition was no problem.

> >Then one morning, I was taking my shower after breakfast when I heard my

> >wife, Deb, call out to me from the kitchen.

> > "Honey! The garbage disposal is dead again. Please come reset it."

> > "You know where the button is,"! I protested through the shower

> >pitter-patter and steam.? "Reset it yourself!"

> > "But I'm scared!" she persisted. "What if it starts going and sucks me

> >in?"

> > There was a meaningful pause and then, "C'mon, it'll only take you a

> >second."

> > So out I came, dripping wet and butt naked, hoping that my silent outraged

>

> >nudity would make a statement about how I perceived her behavior as

> >extremely cowardly.

> > Sighing loudly, I squatted down and stuck my head under the sink to find

> >the button. It is the last action I remember performing.

> > It struck without warning, and without any respect to my circumstances.

> >No, it wasn't the hexed disposal, drawing me into its gnashing metal teeth.

>

> >It was our new kitty, who discovered the fascinating dangling objects she

> >spied hanging between my legs. She had been poised around the corner and

> >stalked me as I reached under the sink. And, at the precise moment when I

> >was most vulnerable, she leapt at the toys I unwittingly offered and

> >snagged them with her needle-like claws. I lost all rational thought to

> >control orderly bodily?? movements, blindly rising at a violent rate of

> >speed, with the full weight of a kitten hanging from my masculine region.

> >

> > Wild animals are sometimes faced with a "fight or flight" syndrome. Men,

> >in this predicament, choose only the "flight" option. I know this from

> >experience. I was fleeing straight up into the air when the sink and

> >cabinet bluntly and forcefully impeded my ascent..... The impact knocked me

>

> >out cold.

> > When I awoke, my wife and the paramedics stood over me. Now there are not

> >many things in this life worse than finding oneself lying on the kitchen

> >floor buck naked in front of a group of "been-there, done-that" paramedics.

>

> >Even worse, having been fully briefed by my wife, the paramedics were all

> >snorting loudly as they tried to conduct their work, all the while trying

> >to suppress their hysterical laughter......and not succeeding.

> > Somehow I lived through it all. A few days later I finally made it back in

>

> >to the office, where colleagues tried to coax an explanation out of me

> >about my head injury. I kept silent, claiming it was too painful to talk

> >about, which it was. "What's the matter?" They all asked, "Cat got your

> >tongue?"

> > If they only knew!

 
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