Hi Everybody... the following is close to a perfect repeat of a conversation a very close friend just had with a new friend of mine... the new friend [a couple weeks] returned home with me from a needed shopping trip [we met up while buying plastic drop cloths at the hardware store and she followed me home to get some special staples I have for staple guns to put them up] and just happened to be a witness to an event that was so distressing to her she called my old friend the minute she reached her own home... [phone rings] 'Hello'. [reply] 'I'm glad I caught you home.. The most terrible thing has just happened! I was at Dayna's to get some staples she has for the plastic I'm hanging for the rain leaks and when we walked in her place was just destroyed!! I'm sure it was a bunch of vandals from those local gangs.. the mess was unbelievable!! books off every shelf, planters dumped everywhere, everything on her desk scattered all over the floor, every package of food opened and scattered [altho there were only a few of those], pillows off the couch, papers strewn everywhere, all the kitchen utensils on the floor, paper towels ripped to shreds, every towel pulled down from the racks in the bathroom, the tissue unrolled all over the bathroom floor, every vcr tape in the big cabinet out on the floor, her little clinic corner was just chaos.. bandage packages scattered in every room, tape rolls punched full of holes, packages and little bottles of medicine dumped on the floor, instruments dumped out of trays.. well, I could go on and on.. It was just awful!! [answer from my old and wise friend] OH? And what was Dayna's reaction to this disaster?? [new friends reply] 'Well!! that's what was so weird!' 'I told her she shouldn't touch anything and to call the police immediately!' ''I told her that several times!' 'But all she'd do was stand there with this huge silly grin on her face and she kept repeating something like 'No, really everything is just FINE.. Actually it's TERRIFIC!!' and she kept grinning while actually laughing while she took in all the destruction.' 'I'm really worried about her, could she be having a breakdown or something?' [my old friend's reply] 'Oh, I wouldn't worry about it.' 'She is something of an Odd Bird you know.' [and my old friend got off the phone as soon as she got the new friend to promise not to call the cops or anything and calmed her down] [that's when my phone rang, when I answered it I could hear my old friend nearly choking with laughter and after a couple of minutes she managed to get the words out between giggles].. 'Mittsy is feeling much better I hear!!' I finally got the whole story out of her and we both couldn't stop laughing for a long time.. Yup.. you guessed it.. my Mittsy fuzzy who has been on syringe feeding and not felt like doing much of anything for a very long time has really improved in every way.. today marks his return to fuzzydom!! I was never so delighted to see anything as I was to walk into that disaster area today!!! Oh, sure I'll be picking up for hours, and may never find everything... and will have to go back to latched cupboards and putting things up and away.. but who cares?? MITTSY IS ON THE MEND... AND BACK ON THE PROWL!!! and that's all that matters!! [but I doubt my new friend would ever understand.. do you?? <ggggggg>] Happy Ferreting!!! dayna and the Woozles "Resident of... Marvelous Menagerie Of Mirthful Mayhem" dayna frazier 102046,3162 22-Nov-1996 18:33:02 PST [Posted in FML issue 1762]