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Rabbit!

So last night I was at the local watering hole, having myself a couple o' beers. There was this rather creepy (in a serial murderer way...) guy who got up from across the bar, and moved towards the door only to stare at me. Then he proceeded to sit on a stool behind me. Only to then sit down at the bar next to me, and order a drink... while acting like a weirdo. I got up and pretended to go to the men's room, so I could get away from the dude. Fearing the creep would follow me (and I sure as hell didn't want to get cornered in the men's room), I just waited in the hallway outside. Sure enough the creepy fucker left his drink at the bar and walked right into the hallway, staring at me as I walked the other way back towards the bar, and he never went into the bathroom. I went and sat on the other side of the bar, only to have the dude come back and sit where I was previously sitting and proceed to lean around so he could stare at me on the other side of the bar. I told the bartender that when I left, if that dude followed me out, to immediately call the cops because I was going to fuck him up. Luckily he left before I did, but I swear I was in some crazy murder movie.

QotD: What's the creepiest thing that's happened to you?

I had something slightly creepy happen yesterday, too.

In the late 90's I started feeding a big, old, black, stray tom cat that kept hanging around my house. Eventually I built him a little house under the stairs since he didn't seem to have anywhere else to go. He was always an outdoor cat and hunted even though I fed him. You know how cats will sometimes bring you a dead mouse as a gift? Well, instead of the whole dead rodent, THIS cat started leaving a pile of guts outside my front door every morning. Every day I'd get up and walk outside and have to clean up a fresh pile of intestines and kidneys. I tried everything I could think of to encourage him to stop (I even sprayed the area in front of my door with a scent that cats aren't supposed to like), but he still kept leaving me guts all summer long. It seemed like an unusual thing to do, I remember looking it up online and not being able to find anything on it. Most cats will bring you the whole body.

This went on for a few years, and then the neighbors built a new barn and took up residence in it (must have been paradise for a mouse hunter). A few years after the neighbor told me he got sick and died, probably of old age.

So... yesterday I walk outside and there's a fresh pile of guts outside my front door. This used to be such a regular occurrence that my first thought was just "damn, he did it again, better clean it up.". A few seconds later it hit me. "The cat that used to do this has been dead for years!"

Just a coincidence, of course, but it was an eerie feeling at the time. Maybe there's a "gut leaving" gene, and my former feline companion has some descendants in the area.

drc: because of my carpal tunnel syndrome relapse I'm taking a sick day tomorrow, and going to see the doctor. Yay for a four-day weekend, I guess.

qotd: One time I was on the subway in New York at 2 AM and there was this really gross dude who had a wad of bills that he'd fan out, wave in peoples faces, and then grin and point at his crotch suggestively.

Teplin wrote:It seemed like an unusual thing to do, I remember looking it up online and not being able to find anything on it. Most cats will bring you the whole body.

Nah, not that uncommon, my old cat used to leave a pile of guts pretty often, and sometimes some feathers too.
-bill