CAT IN A BAG

This tail,
for your info,
is not to be stepped on.
I don't care what you were doing,
you should have been careful.
Of course I'm down here
a cat must inspect the drawers
at all times - it's my job!
Now watch out for
this tail!

One day in the evening during dinner time in the kitchen, it was me, Anand at one end of the glass top dining table, Lijo and Mallika. Lijo was at the gas stove, Anand and Mallika were talking and I was at the other end of the the dining table staring back through the glass top at Shami who was scratching on my trousers and meowing and looking at me after each trial, I guess to see my reaction because there weren't any except the blank cold look. I was thinking “Why O Why, Shami is doing this?”. Then I heard Jai meowing and I looked at Jai and there a house lizard was being a toy(torture for lizard)) in his paws. Jai ate it and his attention was now at the fluttering plastic carry bag under the ceiling fan. Jai was chasing the bag and is now behind my chair. I got up from my chair and began observing how Jai was exploring the carry bag. First he was hesitant to put his head inside it. After a trial of two he was confident and began exploring the inside gradually more and more of his body was disappearing into the bag. Observing this  sinister thought occured to me. After almost more than half of his body was inside the bag, I thrust my hands and grabbed the bag and the cat tumbled into the bag like Alice into the Rabbithole. And held the bag raised in my right hand with the bags opening eld shut in my right hand palm. Anand,Mallika and Lijo were looking at the carry bag which was quavering violently but silent. Everyone were perplexed, they were wondering what was inside the bag?. Then I announced “CAT IN A BAG” with a grin. It took at least 5 seconds to sink into everyone's mind. Then Anand with an uproarious laughter, “FUCK!!! FUCK DUDE!!! HOW DID YOU ?”, soon Mallika was laughing in excitement and when I looked at Lijo, he had his usual smile and he was giving me a thumbs up. Then I let Jai free and he scuttled away afraid. Anand asked me how did I ?, o which I replied fishing for fun with children at moms place during childhood.

I saw Mallika giggling and looking at me frequently and discussing with Anand. I enquired and he replied that “Mallika was mentioning you must be good at fishing” I thanked her and he corrected “fishing girls!!! Big fish small fish and all…” I laughed a bit embarrassingly. That day night chatting to Lorraine I mentioned this. She laughed and broached a particular point, the cat never meowed when it was struggling, I surmised that Jai might be shocked that he forgot to MEOW. I mentioned about the idiom “cat always lands on its feet” to which she opined “with you around a cat is not safe!!!” and called me “The Fisher King”.