Even the Cats Like Joe!

This is what I got up to yesterday morning. My printer tiredly moving, one slow line at a time, thud....thud....thud..., almost out of ink, and twenty-six copies of Joe David's head shot cascading to the floor.

The next printer I buy will not have buttons that can be activated by walking on them.

Here's a bit of cat dialogue (with thanks to Jules):

Cat #1: "What ya doin'?"

Cat #2: "Nothing. I'm bored. Let's see if there's anything we can get in to for fun now that mom is asleep."

Cat#1: "I am sooooooo there!"

Cat#2: "Hey look, she left the printer on. See the pretty green light?"

Cat#1: "Ooooh, that is pretty. Touch it. Go ahead, I dare you."

Cat#2: "Hold on, I need to jump up here first so I can get a closer....hey what was that noise?"

Cat#1: "Um....I don't know but there's something coming out of this thing."

Cat#2: "What the hell is that?"

Cat#1: "I don't know, it sure is taking its dear sweet time coming out. Can you get your head up in there and pull it out with your teeth? Ooops, never mind, it just popped out all the way."

Cat#2: "Cool, it's a piece of paper. Sure would be nice if it was wadded up so that we could bat it around."

Cat#1: "Yep, sure would be nice, but the one with opposable thumbs is asleep. So wadding is out."

Cat#2: Wow, there's a human on this paper. I wonder if he has any food."

Cat#1: "No, silly, it isn't a real human, but he sure is cute. I wish I had his picture all over the house so I could look at him anytime I wanted."

Cat#2: "Yeah, me too."

Cat#1: "Well, jump back up there and start stepping on all those knobby things again until another one spits out."

Cat#2: "Okay."

Cat#1: "WooHooo! You found it. Now just keep stepping on it over and over again. Pretty soon, we'll have tons of these and we can roll around in him all we want."

Cat#2: "How much longer....I'm getting a cramp in my paw."

Cat#1: "Keep stepping! This is way more fun than leaving prezzies under mom's bed, any day."

Cat#2: "I'll say. Even more fun than the time you coughed up a fur ball in that pot of boiling spaghetti sauce on the stove. And to think that mom never was the wiser."

Cat#1: "Hehehehehe"

Cat#2: "Hey! The good looking human stopped coming out of the printer. What happened?"

Cat#2: "Hurry...get the hell out of here and quick. I think we broke it. As long as we are no where in sight when mom wakes up, she won't have a clue who made this mess"

Cat#1: "Phew! That was close. Now what do you want to do?"

Cat#2: "Er....hey, let's pull all the cotton off the Q-tips in that brand new box in the bathroom. There's like 500 of 'em in there. It'll give us something to do for a good half hour."

Cat#1: "Um....okay."