Calling in sick

[Venturous Randy]

Calling in sick to work makes me uncomfortable. No matter how legitimate my excuse, I always get the feeling that my boss thinks I'm lying.

 

On one recent occasion, I had a valid reason but lied anyway, because the truth was just too darned humiliating. I simply mentioned that I had sustained a head injury, and I hoped I would feel up to coming in the next day. By then, I reasoned, I could think up a doozy to explain the bandage on the top of my head. The accident occurred mainly because I had given in to my wife's wishes to adopt a cute little kitty.

Initially, the new acquisition was no problem.

 

Then one morning, I was taking my shower after breakfast when I heard my wife, Deb, call out to me from the kitchen.

 

"Honey! The garbage disposal is dead again. Please come reset it."

 

"You know where the button is," I protested through the shower pitter-patter and steam. "Reset it yourself!"

 

"But I'm scared!" she persisted. "What if it starts going and sucks me in?" There was a meaningful pause and then, "C'mon, it'll only take you a second."

 

So out I came, dripping wet and butt naked, hoping that my silent outraged nudity would make a statement about how I perceived her behavior as extremely cowardly.

 

Sighing loudly, I squatted down and stuck my head under the sink to find the button. It is the last action I remember performing.

 

It struck without warning, and without any respect to my circumstances. No, it wasn't the hexed disposal, drawing me into its gnashing metal teeth. It was our new kitty, who discovered the fascinating dangling objects she spied hanging between my legs. She had been poised around the corner and stalked me as I reached under the sink. And, at the precise moment when I was most vulnerable, she leapt at the toys I unwittingly offered and snagged them with her needle-like claws. I lost all rational thought to control orderly bodily movements, blindly rising at a violent rate of speed, with the full weight of a kitten hanging from my masculine region.

 

Wild animals are sometimes faced with a "fight or flight" syndrome. Men, in this predicament, choose only the "flight" option. I know this from experience. I was fleeing straight up into the air when the sink and cabinet bluntly and forcefully impeded my ascent.

 

The impact knocked me out cold.

 

When I awoke, my wife and the paramedics stood over me. Now there are not many things in this life worse than finding oneself lying on the kitchen floor butt naked in front of a group of "been-there, done-that" paramedics.

Even worse, having been fully briefed by my wife, the paramedics were all snorting loudly as they tried to conduct their work, all the while trying to suppress their hysterical laughter.....and not succeeding.

 

Somehow I lived through it all. A few days later I finally made it back in to the office, where colleagues tried to coax an explanation out of me about my head injury. I kept silent, claiming it was too painful to talk about, which it was. "What's the matter?" They all asked, "Cat got your tongue?"

If they only knew!

[Flyinfool]

There goes another monitor and keyboard.........:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

 

 

But it does not mention if the cat lived..........

[Cougar]

OUCH- glad you feel better this is one for the BOOKS !!

[TDunc]

I am glad your ok but I have to admit.... the mental picture will not wear off for a while

 

 

PS.......HERE KITTY KITTY!

 

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[Greekdog]

That's got to be the funniest thing I heard in a long while.. It has to be true...no one can think that stuff up....

[Carbon_One]

This one is right up there with the mutant squirrel story. Loved it. :rotf:

Larry

[mbrood]

Few things in life are sharper than kitty nails and teeth!!!

 

You have met the enemy and survived... kudos to ya !!!!

[billmac]

Ahd that's why no coffee or food at the keyboad anymore.

[Eddie]

That is a heck of a story, hope the bumps and scratches heal . Im cant stop laughin:rotf:

[Greekdog]

The one time everyone is HAPPY there are no pictures.....

[Flyinfool]

The one time everyone is HAPPY there are no pictures.....

 

Thank god........... oopie!!!!!

[Galapagos]

I have a year old Rat Terrier that I have to keep an eye on.