#Excuses I’ve Heard or Used… Blame the Cat @robblightfoot

I’ve been a teacher for almost 30 years. After a while, you think you’ve heard every alibi. Dogs and kid brothers figure large in many stories. You know: “The dog ate my kid brother, who was holding my homework.” Cats, though, don’t get their fair share of blame. This is wrong, because around our house cats cause a LOT more trouble. I have a shoebox full of ceramic causalities caused by little Stormy, a cat that loves to knock things off the shelf. Up to now, though, she hadn’t seemed to get in the way of my writing.

Then my laser printer starting giving me problems with jams and mis-feeds. Puzzling. It had worked just fine until I moved it into the living room.

Hmmm… Oh? Mystery solved!

I can’t wait to get the estimate on extracting a fake-mouse catnip or an actual regurgitated rodent.  But at least I’ll have an original excuse for MY editors when I tell them I can’t submit my piece on time….

I experienced a pint-sized computer catastrophe.