Calling in sick to work makes me uncomfortable. No matter how legitimate my excuse, I always get the feeling my boss thinks I'm lying.
On one recent occasion, I had a very valid reason but lied anyway, because the truth was just too humiliating. I simply mentioned Id sustained a head injury, and hoped I would feel up to coming back to work in a few days.
By then, I thought I could come up with an excuse to explain the bandage on the top of my head.
My accident occurred mainly because Id given in to "Her" wishes (nagging) to get a wee kitten.
One morning, I was taking a shower when our kitchen sink blocked. So she shouted to me. Come out and fix the kitchen sink.
"In a minute then." I shouted back.
"But its about to overflow all over the floor" She persisted.
So out I came, naked and dripping wet towel around waist; sighing loudly, I squatted down and stuck my head under the sink.
This is the last action I remember performing.
Suddenly the new kitten struck without warning shed discovered fascinating dangling objects between my legs and snagged them with her needle-like claws.
I then lost all rational thought to control orderly bodily movements, blindly rising at a violent rate of speed, with the full weight of a kitten hanging from my undercarriage.
A man in this predicament can only choose the flight option. and as I was fleeing straight up into the air, the sink and cabinet bluntly and forcefully impeded my ascent, knocking me out cold.
When I awoke, the paramedics and "She" stood over me.
Now I imagine there cant be many things in this life worse than finding yourself lying on the kitchen floor naked in front of a group of been-there, done-that paramedicsbut somehow I lived through it all.
A few days later I finally made it back in to work, where my colleagues tried to coax an explanation out of me about the head injury.
I kept silent, claiming it was too painful to talk about, which it was.
"Whats the matter?" They all asked. "Cat got your tongue?"
If they only knew.
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Possum; AKA:- Ali El-Aziz Mohamed Gundawiathan
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