margin call / cat / kitchen / unattended
The cat got the margin call.
He is handling it.
4:07 AM. One laptop, one email with a red header, one cat who read all of it. The owner is in the doorway in a bathrobe, seeing only a cat yelling at a screen.
stove clock
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reading the room
CA
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Incident 0407
Incident report
- Location
- Kitchen, counter by the stove
- Time
- 4:07 AM, per the stove
- Reported by
- The cat (verbally, at length)
- Witness
- Owner, doorway, bathrobe, eyes mostly shut
- Light source
- One laptop. No overhead light was used.
- Account holder
- Cat
At 4:07 the laptop woke on its own and showed an email with a red header. The cat was already sitting in front of it. He read the whole message and answered in the only language he has.
The account, it turned out, was in the cat's name. He found this out at the same moment as everyone else.
The owner arrived at 4:08. He saw the cat, the screen and the open mouth, and went back to bed with a theory about the radiator.
Filed under: cats, kitchens, things that arrive at the worst hour.