“If you want a cat, I’ll buy you a cat,” I told Klara. “I don’t know much about cats but I have figured out they aren’t food. I can learn more.”
“You know, mommy,” she said in a voice I reserve for particularly hopeless students, “I think I’m OK with a toy cat instead.”
You have figured out they aren’t food?
This reminds me of a joke my husband used to make about Chinese food when we first started dating (early 1990’s). I would get chicken-fried rice and as soon as I would take a bite, he would say, “How do you like your cat?” Somewhere he heard Chinese people used cats to make their food. I never thought it was a funny joke. And I always wondered if it was true.
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I’ll probably burn in hell for this, but…
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Klara probably knows that people who hate dogs don’t make very good cat owners, either.
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I can see that my joke is falling flat with every age group. People are too tightly wound up.
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