Driving cross-country as fast as humanly possible with two cats who hate the car. Did I mention that part?
My whole life just flashed before my eyes! I gotta get me a life!
Xander ,'Dirty Girls'
Natter 37: Oddly Enough, We've Had This Conversation Before.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Pix - Jul 26, 2005 6:28:45 am PDT #2909 of 10002
The status is NOT quo.
amych - Jul 26, 2005 6:29:10 am PDT #2910 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
HAPPIES, KAT!!
Lee - Jul 26, 2005 6:31:54 am PDT #2911 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Kristin, one of the best things I did on the drive up here was to throw a towel over Ozzie's carrier. He felt much safer and hidden, and hardly screeched at all, which made Perkins the cat calmer too.
tommyrot - Jul 26, 2005 6:32:24 am PDT #2912 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Driving cross-country as fast as humanly possible with two cats who hate the car. Did I mention that part?
I did a five day cross-country drive with one cat and that was bad enough. We resorted to keeping the cat in a pillow case with just her head sticking out (my friend held the cat), as the cat was determined to climb out the window or hide underneath the brake pedal.
One morning as we were leaving the hotel we couldn't find her. Turned out she had crawled thorugh a hole in the fabric at the bottom of the matress box spring and was hiding in there.
eta: we were driving a U-Haul truck that had no room in the cab for a cat carrier.
sarameg - Jul 26, 2005 6:34:02 am PDT #2913 of 10002
Got leashes for the cats? My parents tell hilarious stories of doing that with 2 cats, one a mouthy burmese. Of course, the cats weren't too pissy about car rides.
My brother drove 13 hours with three cats in the cab of a Uhaul last year. One who wanted to sleep on his head the whole way. She ended up wrapped around his neck in terror.
Calli - Jul 26, 2005 6:34:27 am PDT #2914 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Driving cross-country as fast as humanly possible with two cats who hate the car.
When my family moved from MI to NC, we had a cat who absolutely hated the car with us. Mom put her favorite Christmas cacti next to his cage. By the end of the trip they were clawed to their stumps.
The cat survived the trip. The plants came back and bloomed amazingly well that year. I think they were afraid not to.
Kat - Jul 26, 2005 6:37:04 am PDT #2915 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Kristin, our cat would cry until we really got going then stop until we were almost there. It's like his whinging was tied to deceleration and accelerations. This was when Lori and I used to do a monthly schlep of the animals between LA and SF.
ah, good times.
CAKE. I'm so excited that there will be CAKE. In fact, I might go order an extra one.
brenda m - Jul 26, 2005 6:38:06 am PDT #2916 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Kristin, our cat would cry until we really got going then stop until we were almost there.
My grandma's cat didn't shut up for eight hours on her only long distance car trip.
Lee - Jul 26, 2005 6:39:25 am PDT #2917 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
CAKE!
Nilly - Jul 26, 2005 6:42:30 am PDT #2918 of 10002
Swouncing
It's like his whinging was tied to deceleration and accelerations.
Cats know about general relativity? For the record, I don't know anything about it. Other, than, well, the cats thing.
Kristin! I hope your trip is smooth and full of experiences of only the good kind!
Kat! Now I can happy-birthday you in your face screen!
[Edit: 2*9=18, also with the take-1-from-this-digit-and-give-it-to-the-other game. Maybe Kat and lori's cats can explain why I like this so much.]