Life With Cats, Wee Hours Edition

[truepenny]

BIPED: [waking up at oh-dark-thirty] My back hurts, I can't move, there's no room to breathe, WHAT IN GOD'S NAME IS . . . oh, it's you.
CATZILLA: Dude, I'm, like, totally sleeping here. D'you mind?
BIPED: You're a nine pound cat, for Christ's sake. You cannot take up three-quarters of the bed.
CATZILLA: I'm not listeninnnnnnnnnnng.
BIPED: [contorts like Houdini]
[manages to roll over without kicking spouse off the bed]
[shoves Catzilla back maybe half an inch]
BIPED: All in all, this is not an appreciable improvement.
CATZILLA: [commences to purr]
BIPED: I hate you.

***

At least I know who to blame today's sciatica on.

Comments

[libskrat]

I hope the Gray Menace Mouser never gets to that size, because it's cute now, but...

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's not the size. I've shared beds with much larger cats (Richie was thirteen pounds in his prime) and not had this problem. It's all about placement.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

Placement, and folding space. (How else can you explain their ability to be both bed-hogging and impossibly small?)

If I were the sort of writer who could do humorous SF, I would have a story about how our FTL travel is entirely dependent on convincing each shipboard cat to pretty please fold space for us so we can get to the next star.