I work in a office and periodically I deal with people. So today I am at work and this gentleman comes into my office to pick up some paper work from me.
The paper work was on my other desk behind me so I had to stand up and turn around and grab the paperwork off my desk. As I stood up and turned around the gentleman asks me:
Do you have cats?
I stood there for a moment and panic hit me as I thought:
-Oh no. Do have a wad of cat hair on my back, butt? I always check my clothes before I leave for work. I don't remember seeing cat hair.
-Do I smell like cat? Darn it did someone spray my shoes? Surely I'd smell it if I smelled like a cat. I know I don't smell like cat. My house never smells like cat.
-Did one of the kitties get sick and I sat in it before work? Nah surely I would know if I did.
Meanwhile during all of this thought I am not facing him. I am fiddling with the paperwork trying to look at myself with out drawing attention to see if I have kitty hair, vomit, spray something that alerted him to my ownership of kitties. Meanwhile I found nothing. So I muster up a smile and turn around and face him. ( I felt like it was 100 degrees in the office and my face must have been 4 shades of red)
And said why yes I do have have cats, How did you know? (Meanwhile bracing for the worst)
He said oh you have a few scratches on your hands. I know those scratches. See we match.
I almost blurted out. That was it!? Scratches on my hands? I sat here mentally mortified and all it was, was scratches on my hands?
OMG the relief I felt to know that I didn't have kitty hair, vomit or spray attached to me that alerted people to my kitty ownership was immense. And then to find out that he too had cats and surely would have understood if I did have such things on me. I had to laugh after he left my office of what a dummy I was and how silly I must have looked while I was stalling doing my mental kitty check.
I thought you all would get a kick out my Do you have cats question.
The paper work was on my other desk behind me so I had to stand up and turn around and grab the paperwork off my desk. As I stood up and turned around the gentleman asks me:
Do you have cats?
I stood there for a moment and panic hit me as I thought:
-Oh no. Do have a wad of cat hair on my back, butt? I always check my clothes before I leave for work. I don't remember seeing cat hair.
-Do I smell like cat? Darn it did someone spray my shoes? Surely I'd smell it if I smelled like a cat. I know I don't smell like cat. My house never smells like cat.
-Did one of the kitties get sick and I sat in it before work? Nah surely I would know if I did.
Meanwhile during all of this thought I am not facing him. I am fiddling with the paperwork trying to look at myself with out drawing attention to see if I have kitty hair, vomit, spray something that alerted him to my ownership of kitties. Meanwhile I found nothing. So I muster up a smile and turn around and face him. ( I felt like it was 100 degrees in the office and my face must have been 4 shades of red)
And said why yes I do have have cats, How did you know? (Meanwhile bracing for the worst)
He said oh you have a few scratches on your hands. I know those scratches. See we match.
I almost blurted out. That was it!? Scratches on my hands? I sat here mentally mortified and all it was, was scratches on my hands?
OMG the relief I felt to know that I didn't have kitty hair, vomit or spray attached to me that alerted people to my kitty ownership was immense. And then to find out that he too had cats and surely would have understood if I did have such things on me. I had to laugh after he left my office of what a dummy I was and how silly I must have looked while I was stalling doing my mental kitty check.
I thought you all would get a kick out my Do you have cats question.