Judge: You have been charged with First Degree Kittenphilia. Several witnesses claim they saw you approaching kittens and acting suspiciously… they’re KITTENS! How do you answer to these charges?
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Judge: You have been charged with First Degree Kittenphilia. Several witnesses claim they saw you approaching kittens and acting suspiciously… they’re KITTENS! How do you answer to these charges?
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If that’s the case, the idea “your cat shouldn’t be outside” and “my cat is outside cat” will both get you fined and your cat taken away.
Also “get your cat on leash” would be a very strange thing to say.
Lol. My mom didn’t give me permission to be outside by myself until like 6th grade when she finally signed the permission papers to let me walk home from school by myself. (6th grade is still considered Elementary school where I live, still required parents to pick up as a standard protocol)
Cuz she was afraid of (a) kidnappings and (b) that someone would report it and then “CPS would come and take me away and I’d never see mom again”
That was like when I was 12 years old… whats that in Cat Years?
Oh the “hold your child’s (read: cat) hands (read: paws) when crossing the street” is gonna get a bit weird… (you’re gonna get scratched by “your child” (aka: cat))
Yikes. I was walking myself home from school in first grade. They are overprotective where you are
Context:
8 years old was when my family immigrated to the US… probably also the factor of being in a foreign place…
Not sure if there any any immigrant parents that would just lets their kids roam free without supervision…
could also be an age factor. about a decade younger than me they started picking up and dropping off all the kids from school. the kids wouldn’t (and still won’t, it’s ridiculous) bicycle home from school. i bother my brothers that they need to give their kids more free rein like we had growing up and they say I don’t understand and in truth I don’t, but my sister’s doing it fine so pthbt to them.
i mean, back when i was in school one child would die in some public way each year. in the entire city (size: lower six figures population. for the california bay area that’s just a small city/large town. in retrospect i think our mortality rate was pretty good and that was just the deaths i knew about, which was most of them what with those religious/social-climbing type of parents and a town still small enough if you didn’t directly know everyone with some effort you could indirectly know about a good fifth of the town (at my most famous i had probably 25k fans? okay twenty five thousand people who had heard of me)) they would make a huge deal of it every time anything ever happened, as though it was their first time dealing with death. like shit, i was worried that i, as an 8-year-old, had dealt with more death on the farm than the principal had (who was understandably shaken by the stray dog who had darted in front of a teacher’s car in the parking lot, i was too i will not describe the gore but fuck lady i was keeping it together better i felt like i needed to come up and give her a hug). only here’s the thing, only like one out of six that i recall was a vehicular death. but i think it scarred my generation enough that they didn’t want their kids walking to school by the busy roads the way we did.