Our cat Kinko keeps getting into fights and losing them. Either he needs to become a better fighter or easier to get along with in the feline world. In any case, I'm used to finding myself in the middle of a busy day like today on the waiting bench in the animal hospital's urgent care section. Since I've been here and done this, I am smart enough to bring my Thinkpad. Taking advantage of the built in EVDO card, I get connection and start clipping off the emails that require the most urgent care of their own.
I'm sharing the bench with a rather corpulent, business-suited woman, sitting with her caged corpulent cat. She glares at me over her mystery book to the point where she's making me nervous. Finally, she snaps, "You computer people. You go everywhere with those things. Personally, I think you should be made to stand outside with the smokers." She the goes back to reading her book.
It's funny. She and I share several things in common. We both had to take time from what we do because we both care about sick or injured animals. We both sit on the same bench hoping our cats will be okay. But when she leaves her office, the work gets left behind and she fills the space with a beach book. I take my office with me.
I stop answering email and post this blog. This is my revenge and it lets me get past my impulse to be rude back to her, which would have been easy.
She has a very ugly cat.
[Note--I fixed a typo in the headline]
