Its very difficult being the only creature with any sense in this household. I don't usually pay much attention to the lady peep's foolishness, but when she does something that could use up one (or more of her lives), sometimes a cat has to speak up. And don't even let me get started on Phinney and Sam the Dog - Stoopid Dog.


So here's what the lady peep did.


Did I mention that its very very cold here right now? No? Well last week it was about -37 Celsius (with the wind chill factor added in) at night - that means its feels even colder than the thermometer says it is beause there is a breeze blowing. Which means your toes and nose can freeze very fast (especially if you forget your hat and all you have on your furless fingers is little leather gloves)


Opps I forgot to mention one tiny but important detail. The man peep had meetings out of town 2 days last week. (This will become more important as you read down).


So the lady peep came home from work at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday night and jumped excitedly out of her truck. She is always excited to get home from work and see me. She had the following in her arms 1) one grocery bag 2) her purse 3) her gloves 4) the mail 5) an empty coffee cup and 6) car keys - At least she thought she had car keys hooked on her finger like always (but it was the coffee cup hooked there this time).


If you can't see where this is going. let me spell it out for you.


She got to the door (it was dark, the outside light wasn't working for some reason). She placed everything on the ground and went to unlock the door. Naturally she couldn't get the coffee cup to go into the key hole.

She did not panic.

She sat the coffee cup down, then felt in her coat pocket. No keys there.

She did not panic.

She put the little leather gloves on which warmed her fingers for about 3 seconds and decided to get back into the truck to think about what to do next. Yup, the truck was locked.

She did not panic.

She thought hubby will be home in about 3 minutes, I'll just wait here for him. Then she remembered hubby wouldn't be home until around 7:30 pm because of the aforementioned evening meeting. That was approximately one hour away.

She did not panic.

She realized her feet were getting really cold. She looked down at her toes encased in patent leather pumps and nylon stockings. Nothing else.

She did not panic. Nope she freaked right out!!!. Me and Phinney were looking out the window watching the whole thing. Sam was barking and running around in circles 'cause he's stoopid.

So did she think "What would be the practical thing to do?" (which would have been to knock on the neighbor's door and ask if she could come in out of the cold until hubby get home) - nope she did not. She decided to walk to the mall - about 2 blocks away and stay warm there.

Now this would normally not be totally foolish because it's only 2 blocks away and only takes about 3 - 5 minutes tops to get there from here - but remember she's only wearing patent leather pumps and nylon stockings - did I mention there were high heels on those pumps? Well there were.

Did I mention that she decided to take the bags with her? Why? Who knows. She's a peep and she was a freaked out peep just then.

Anyway it took about 15 minutes to get to the mall and when she got there - she was frozen...no feeling in her toes or nose. (Actually she was very scared and tho she laughs now, she wasn't laughing then).

So she got to the food court and sat down with a cup of coffee and tried to come to her senses. Her feet were unfreezing by now and tingling - not a nice feeling at all. When she set the grocery bag down, it went clunk in a funny way. Hmm, what's that? I didn't buy anything clunky. She checked and yup, you guessed it. The car keys (and house keys) had fallen into the grocery bag and were there all the time.

But thats not the dumbest thing she did that night. Nope, not by a long shot. What she did next defies reason.

She did not stop at the Wal-mart store and buy a pair of warm mittens to cover her furless fingers.
She did not call a taxi to drive her home.
She did not buy a pair of warm socks to cover her cold furless toes.
and the dumbest thing of all ...
she did not just wait there in the warm mall for hubby to come home from work and get here.

what she did was...

She picked up all her packages and walked home again. She could have frozen to death in the parking lot. Would somebody please have a word with this lady peep for me.

She made me promise not to tell the man peep - she's embarrased because she panicked and was kinda in shock from the cold.

Do you think I should tell?