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Rand's side not above reminds me of our family cat, Sandy, when I was a kid.
My Dad had a Ford Cortina Mk2 when I was about 6. He needed to do some engine worked so he had drained thepetrol tank into a floor tray. We were eating lunch in the kitchen and my Mom had left the door to the garage open and Sandy had got out there.
Next thing we know Sandy is going crazy in the garage. Running round and round the edge of the garage like a circuit sprinter, just leaping over things and bouncing off the walls running absolutely mad at 100mph screaming a mad crazy banshee wail like a police siren.
She did that none stop for a bout ten minutes. We just stood there goggled eyed in amazement as she rocketed past us again and again, and my dad suddenly noticed... the tray of petrol was empty. She had drunk the lot.
She flew round that garage for ages making an awful noise, it must have really just been burning up her insides and she was just trying to escape I suppose... eventually she ran across the floor, up the double doors to the top, then just stopped, completely frozen.
- she ran out of gas?Autokern
- Damn you Frisk, you stole my punchline.
= )Horp - when i heard this story i was 6Autokern
- did she live??_salisae_
- oh it's made up. i feel foolish._salisae_
- Frisk, this is a classic story of my dads. He used to tell it in the 70's, people would be bog-eyed as he told it...Horp
- ... and without fail someone would ask "Was she dead?" and he'd say ...Horp
- "No, she'd run out of petrol".
The room would collapse. I don't have the magics. = (Horp - Shari, I wish you had come along sooner.
Horp - that's a very sweet thing to say, horp._salisae_