On 4/25/97, JElving@aol.com wrote:
<<When a grand piano (no matter what brand) and a cat (actually a kitten)
get in a fight, who wins? >>
The heavyweights have already checked out with their prizes, so this
story will serve as an after-dinner mint ("Just one more, Mr.
Creosote...." if you ever saw Monty Python's "Meaning of Life").
Bill Garlick told us of the apartment cat who was used to hopping on on
the lid of a grand piano where he could sun himself. The afternoon Bill
arrived to tune the piano, no sooner had he raised the lid but the cat
showed up, and took his customary running jump, without noticing the
current inclination of the lid. The poor animal's reaction when landing
on a lid up at 45d instead of level, was to brake his sudden backwards
slide by extending his claws. A dozen deep but parallel scratches running
across the lid, and one very frightened-looking cat!
Bill Ballard RPT
NH Chapter
"A jester unemployed is nobody's fool."
Danny Kaye, in "The Court Jester"
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