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- From: lhuffman@stsci.edu
- Subject: Rugs and such
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.150015.1@stsci.edu>
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- Organization: Space Telescope Science Institute
- References: <23NOV199210320880@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov>
- Distribution: usa,na
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 20:00:15 GMT
-
- >
- > Both my cats, Harry and Spike, love to play slide on the rug game. When I
- > get home from work there they sit with those guilty looks on their faces
- > and all my rugs bunched up in corners of the house. I even caught them in
- > the act once. They run down the hallway and into one of the rooms that
- > have a loose rug on the floor and they slide on it across the floor.
-
- My cats used to do this to distraction (mine) and I'd always trip over a pile
- of rug in the hallway in the dark in the small night hours; while
- I slept they would play surfing USA down the hall. And I WAS FOREVER
- STRAIGHTENING RUGS!!!
-
- Anyway, after telling them that if they didn't stop wouldn't
- they be sorry when I was in the hospital and couldn't work to earn the money
- to buy the cat food. It had no effect. I would get these wicked thoughts
- about secretly nailing the rugs to the floor without telling them and letting
- them hit it full force and go head over tin-cups at light speed down the
- hallway until they came to rest in a boneless heap at the other end.
-
- ANYWAY...
-
- What I did finally was buy a very thin rubber matting that is put under the
- rug and provides enough traction for the rug not to slide anymore. They have
- turned their attentions elsewhere.
-