That’s how our cat got her name. You’d be walking from the dining room into the kitchen, she’d thunder from the other end of the house and somehow, every time, wind up darting across your path just as you were swinging a leg through the door. This would abruptly arrest the motion of your leg, causing you to grab wildly for the doorway so as to keep from face-planting on the linoleum. The cat, for her part, wound up kicked halfway across the kitchen floor, sometimes banging off the door, lying on her side and mewling pitifully while you screamed,
That’s how our cat got her name. You’d be walking from the dining room into the kitchen, she’d thunder from the other end of the house and somehow, every time, wind up darting across your path just as you were swinging a leg through the door. This would abruptly arrest the motion of your leg, causing you to grab wildly for the doorway so as to keep from face-planting on the linoleum. The cat, for her part, wound up kicked halfway across the kitchen floor, sometimes banging off the door, lying on her side and mewling pitifully while you screamed,
CAT!!!!