A Double Standard

As I mentioned in an earlier blog “Driving Miss Lucy”, Lucy loves to go for a ride, a lot of people enjoy having their dog as co-pilot and no one gives it a second thought.

Now, cats on the other hand are a whole different story! A few years ago, in what I now think was a moment of temporary insanity, I decided to take Lilly with me on a quick ride to the drug store to pick up a prescription at the drive up window. The store was less than a mile from the house, so no big deal, right?

I plunked Lilly, much to her surprise, in the front seat, started the engine and backed down the driveway. Lilly, who could be the poster cat for curiosity, seemed delighted as she checked out the interior of my car. It wasn’t until I actually got almost to the store that ‘feline hysteria’ reared its ugly head!

I’ve driven through ice, snow and fog. I've endured driving with screaming kids and back seat drivers but this was a first... a bouncing, clawing, howling cat...in a car with no cat carrier!

Being closer to the store than home, I pushed on, and pulled into the drive thru, all the while coaxing Lilly to be calm. As the clerk shoved the drawer towards my car window, I hoped she wouldn’t notice the deranged cat sprawled on top of the back seat. “You’re the first person I ever saw driving a cat!” she announced loudly, handing me my purchase.

A few minutes later, after most of her co-workers had checked out the ‘wacky lady and her cat’, we were off, and within moments of being home Lilly was back to her ‘princess’ self, none the worse for her adventure.

I’m so glad we moved and I don’t have to go back to that pharmacy!

More to come...