C.: Well, it IS nice to have a weekend off (especially since twelve of my kittens are working). Mom and Dad are on another cruise, and Buddy Bones is nowhere to be found! I have the whole house to myself for the long weekend. I am trying to read all the manuscripts d.c. has completed. That sounds like an excellent way to spend the weekend. Yessir, just snuggle up with some good books, and… What is Triple T doing sitting in a chair on my front porch? I see him on my doorbell cam. I will face this head-on and stop any trouble before it starts.
“Why, Tom the Tabby, what a pleasant surprise! What brings you t my ‘neck of the woods’?”
T.: I think you already know the answer to that question, Ms. Kat! I have a LONG memory. I know that it was YOU who stole the money from my house. Where IS IT?
C.; Do you think I’m dumb enough to hide money that I um…’came by honestly’ in those pillow cushions, or under the refrigerator, or inside that closet? (click).
T.: NOT cool, Cal.E. Locking me in this closet will do you no good. You MUST let me out sooner or later. When you do, your name is mud!
C.: I seem to be getting a lot of that lately. Hmm. Mom and Dad won’t be home for a week. Can a cat survive for that long without food and water? Perhaps this little experiment will enlighten us. ‘Triple T.’ is tricky, though. I need to sit here and guard the closet as long as I possibly can. In the meantime, I will just ask myself some mind-clearing questions.
Since it’s football season, I will concentrate on questions about the gridiron.
“Exactly how many yards is ‘third and long’?”
“What constitutes ‘good field position’? And why is there no ‘great field position’?”
“How is a college named after a city a ‘state university?”
“AT what yard marker does ‘midfield begin and end’?”
“Why are all of the officials referred to as ‘referees’ when only the head official is, technically, the referee?”
“Why IS a football field referred to as a ‘gridiron’?”
“If there is a ‘red zone’ which is the area inside of the opponent’s twenty-yard line, why isn’t there a ‘pink zone’? That should be the twenty yards before the ‘red zone’! And, from the offense’s goal line to their own twenty-yard line should be
the ‘blue zone’. The forty yards to the ‘pink zone could be referred to as the ‘green zone.’
“And how many minutes is ‘plenty of time’?” “Why do the last two minutes of each half last almost as long as the whole rest of the half?”
“And finally, I will now name all the teams in Texas that have as many Super Bowl victories in this century as the greatest quarterback of all time, David Carr………”
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