Everyone knows about UPS, the delivery company. It's a common sight in any town or city to see the big brown trucks driving around the streets and parked out in front of buildings. Even before you see the words on the side of the vehicle, you know its UPS by that poop-brown color. Haha. One of the well-known jokes is that they park wherever in the damn hell they want to. Often blocking traffic and creating treacherous situations on streets as they will park right in traffic so they can get into a building right nearby, which causes hectic situations for traffic going on the street in the same direction.
My cats have become the same way in the past several weeks. My apartment is certainly not the biggest, and I probably will be truthful to admit that perhaps I have a bit too much stuff around. Not that its crowded by any means, but I just have a lot of belongings and it can make for interesting layouts of where to put stuff like furniture, book cases, entertainment stand, and so forth. This causes for varying methods of crossing a room from one side to another. Maybe its a narrow path to go between the refrigerator and a piece of cat furniture (this jungle-gym like thing), but you can get that way.
My cats have a tendency to sit where they know I am trying to go. If I am cooking at the kitchen counter, then they may lay in spots just behind me so that if I am going to turn around, then I may end up stepping on them or something. Tripping over them. If I am trying to walk most anywhere in the apartment, they will tend to lay directly in my path. If they see me standing over them wanting to pass by, do you think they bother to move?
No.
They simply park their hairy butts down on the floor anywhere, and if its in my way....so be it. this includes laying in the bathroom as well. I need to go take a shower or use the tub for a bath? Chances are there's a cat laying on the bath mat rug on the floor right in front of the tub. Will he (usually Whiskers) move? Not until I turn on the tub's faucet to start the water running!
I have yet to figure out what my cats will hope to accomplish by doing any of this. The only thing they have accomplished is sometimes I may step on their tail BY ACCIDENT and then they'll run off meowing. Or I may nearly trip over them and fall down myself. Or in trying to step over them I may fall off balance, or spill or drop anything I am trying to carry. And who's at fault?
Cats? No.
Me? What do you think! Oh no, if something goes wrong it's never their faults! It's clearly my fault somehow.
Just like when you are driving down the street and a UPS truck in your way. Oh hell no, its not their fault. You need to get out of their way. My cats are the same way. If they are blocking your path....
Just suck it up, sigh, and take the long route around.
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