Lonely and Desperate
November 13, 2011 § 8 Comments
True: I had this cat named Desperate. She hated San Francisco and me for the same reasons: Too cold and no place to park. She started losing weight from her unshakable ennui, so she went to stay with my mother who lives in a quiet neighborhood in Texas. I never knew the comedic value of her name being Desperate until I witnessed my mother standing in the open doorway under a full moon, calling her back into the house.
Should be true: Old Man Reynolds, made a widower after a Sedgeway accident, lived a block away from my mother with his cat, Lonely.
One night, he was calling Lonely in and heard my mother’s low, plaintive answer. Encouraged, he went courting and they got married and he and Lonely moved in with my mother and Desperate and all of them lived in a neverending and allergic danderhaze of possibilities and joy.
That’s alot like my two dogs, Drunk & Horny.
I have heard you calling them many a night (and day), Greg.
Greg, I curse you for stealing my comment.
Mines more PG, but extremely true of their owner. Meet my two hamsters, coffee and lover.
I love it! It’s so YOU. I won’t let Steven see the word DANDERHAZE, he’ll use it against me! Their two names can describe most of us at sometime in our lives.
Yes, Steve would use that against us for sure!
MEOW, I wish to set the record straight. That name Mommie Dearest gave me was actually fitting for a short while in my life. But after she moved to California, a lowly Calico from Texas just wasn’t impressive, so she dumped me on her saintly mother and bought a Burmese, which she named Zephyr (forgive my snicker). But, worst of all, is her insinuation that I or my saintly Grammy (purrrrrr) would stoop to accepting the advances of desperate, lonely males. Why, I would scratch out the eye balls (and any others, if present) of any fumbling old fool that dared make a pass at me or my Grammy (purrrrr).
Desperate, is that you? why are you so mean just because I abandoned you? And why do you have my mother’s email address?