Keep your pants on!

There comes a time generally in my conversations with people that it reaches a TMI point.   I am a nurse and people tell me and show me all sorts of things, so very little bothers me.  I sometimes forget that it does bother others. However I am going to go ahead and just rip that band aid off right now.

We were taking care of our friend's place while they were on vacation. We would stop by and feed the cats and water their plants.  My middle son, who was almost two at the time, and I stopped by to take care of things after we had been swimming at a nearby friend's house.  We were still in our bathing suits and needed to change there before picking my other son up.  We got to the house and our shorts were pretty wet from our suits underneath.  I took off the bottom half of my suit and shorts along with Ben's suit and threw them into the dryer. I had gone to the bathroom and got a little surprise from mother nature at that exact moment.   I grabbed  a sanitary napkin and unwrapped it so that it would be ready when the clothes were dry. With that still in hand I turned the corner and their cat came charging at us, hissing with his claw up like we were his prey.  I quickly grabbed Ben, dropped the sanitary napkin on the kitchen counter and ran into the nearest room and shut the door.  We had barely made it and the cat was attacking the door hissing and scratching. There we were in the office safe with no pants on, and this cat hissing and stalking the door.  I didn't quite know what to do.  I thought about the window but, again, I had no pants on.  The window didn't open anyway. I looked around the room and there wasn't one thing I could cover up  with.  I saw on the desk there was a phone and a church directory.  I called up a friend that had a cat and explained we were trapped in the office, with the cat at the door and we had no pants.  There was silence on the other end of the line for a period and then laughter.  As I was talking to her I realized the vacuum was in the room and asked "cats are afraid of vacuums right? , Great"  I plugged the vacuum in turned it on rolled the vacuum in the cats direction grabbed our pants quickly put them on and got out of the house as fast as I could..  (Ben didn't get his pants on until we were outside).  It did cross my mind that I had left the sanitary napkin on the kitchen counter and the vacuum spread out in the hallway. I didn't care.  I was so relieved we had gotten out of there with some of our dignity intact.  So when our friends got home they were welcomed with their vacuum in the hallway a sanitary napkin on the kitchen counter.

All I can say from this experience is when taking care of a friend's house always keep your pants on.