They're not going to open, no matter how long you stare at the doors!

[Sylvia727]

Well, let's recap, shall we?

Pets say please and thank you.
Pets can learn new behaviors.
Pets wait patiently for up to five minutes at a time.
Pets know what "no" means.
Pets stay out of restricted areas.
Pets don't curse at you.
Pets don't shit on the floor.
Pets make a worthwhile contribution to society.
People mourn the death of a pet.

Feel free to add your own.

[shenzee]

It's a sight to see when there's, like, 5 kittens climbing up and hanging off the screen of the door, even when we open it. And the latest batch of kittens have taken to climbing up the door in the morning and crying to let us know that we'd better get out of bed and feed them.

This image made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside! I can just imagine waking up to that, you'd have to laugh the first time you saw it!

[poofy_puff]

Years ago, when we had kittens (and we've had ALOT), they'd always cry outside the bedroom door when it was closed. We finally removed the bedroom door and replaced it with a screen door. Voila! No more crying

One thing you can do to stop that is to have the mother cat spayed.

I suppose you figured that one out because you said you "used to" have kittens. Or perhaps you were a rescue-foster home. I do rescue-foster and I hate it when people assume that the reason I have so many is because I let them get pregnant on my watch.

[greensinestro]

I really am not sure where I stated this was a thread about cats.

[zzapp the witch]

I had a crazy cat lady once tell me that they sat at the door staring because they were waiting for the Cat Bus. I still call it that to this day.

Waiting for the Cat Bus. I like it.

[napoleana]

I've had weirder:

At the old job (line cook at a "restaurant"), these two typical upper-middle class women in maybe their 30s, not the least bit weird or suspicious in appearance and perfectly polite, enter sometime around 9:40pm. Manager "B" sees them waiting. (No, B is not a terribly polite person.)

B: Are you here for take out?
Woman: No, we wanted to sit.
B: We don't seat after 9:30.
Woman: Oh, I'm sorry. Okay.

The women leave and hang around outside the front. We figure that they're just going to discuss where to go instead and ignore them.

Sometime after we close (at 10pm), B sends me to wash the inside of the windows where dumbasses have been touching them. I get to the one about half-way down the restaurant.

Me: Hey, B? Those women are still out there.
B: What women?
Me: The women who came in too late to sit.
B: Well, maybe they're waiting for somebody.

Almost an hour later (it always took us forever to clean up), I'm back in that area, sweeping.

Me: Um, B? Those women are still there.
B: What are they doing?
Me: They're just talking.
B: About what?
Me: They're outside! I don't know!
B: Come tell me if they're still there when you leave.
Coworker "C": I'm not leaving if they're still out there.
B: They're just little white women.
C: But they're obviously crazy!

Sometime later, I am rearranging the furniture in that area and see the women still out there, having friendly conversation.

Me: (knowing they can't hear me) Dear God! Don't you people have homes! Shoo! Shoo!
C: They're still out there?
Me: Yes!
C: Are they waiting for somebody?
Me: I don't think so. You'd think that person would have come by now.
C: That's creepy.

I wasn't back in the area until it was time to leave.

B: They still there?
Me: Nope.

Don't think I ever saw them again...

[smileyeagle1021]

Well, let's recap, shall we?


Pets don't shit on the floor.

Feel free to add your own.

*cough* my mom's dog does *cough*

[HalloranElder]

I had a crazy cat lady once tell me that they sat at the door staring because they were waiting for the Cat Bus. I still call it that to this day.

Waiting for the Cat Bus. I like it.

[Hon'ya-chan]

I do rescue-foster and I hate it when people assume that the reason I have so many is because I let them get pregnant on my watch.

Yeah, how dare you don't make the male cat wear a condom!!

[wolfie]

I had a crazy cat lady once tell me that they sat at the door staring because they were waiting for the Cat Bus. I still call it that to this day.

Waiting for the Cat Bus. I like it.

I've heard of the Dog Bus (Greyhound), but what's the Cat Bus?

[cinema guy]

HalloranElder, I too thought of the bus from My Neighbour Tortoro.

[protege]

Getting back on topic...what about the idiots who *assume* that the doors will automatically open for them...but proceed to walk into the glass?

[greensinestro]

Getting back on topic...what about the idiots who *assume* that the doors will automatically open for them...but proceed to walk into the glass?

Thank you for that, as again, I never opened this thread to talk about cats. I have seen that happen myself because these idiots all assume every business has doors that are automatic.

[IHateStupidCustomers]

Thank you for that, as again, I never opened this thread to talk about cats. I have seen that happen myself because these idiots all assume every business has doors that are automatic.

I haven't seen customers walk into doors in person (never close enough to them), but I have seem a whol compliation of video clips on youtube, I believe. Hilarious.

Sorry, I think I might have started the cats thing. I think I said I thought it was funny that the customers staring at doors are doing the same thing my pets do.

[protege]

Hehe I think that's what started it. No worries