Two brothers, John and Richard, lived in the same town.
John with his 12 year old cat, Richard with their 88 year old Mother. John’s
whole life was his cat. He never went anywhere without her.
He had to go
to England on business for his company and he could not take the cat into
England, as he would have to quarantine her for 14 days. He wouldn’t do that so
he was faced with either losing his job or leaving his cat.
the week he would be gone. He gave Richard detailed instructions, schedules,
food, etc. Finally he flew to London and called Richard every few hours to make
sure Gracie the cat was ok.
a pain in the neck.
Gracie was and
cruellest thing I ever heard. You know how much I loved that cat, why couldn’t
you have broken it to me gently? You know, like when I called said something
like, ‘well she’s OK but she is up on the roof’. And then when I called the
next time, tell me ‘oh oh, bad news, John, she fell off the roof and she’s at
the vets.’ And then the next time break the news that she passed away. At least
I would have been a little prepared for the bad news.”
heartless.”
then said, “Oh, by the way, how’s Mother?”
the roof…!!”