cars are very heavy

someone drove a car half over e cat's foot last night. something not very unexpected, given e impatience of e driver, who gets worked up if he is made to wait as long as more than a few seconds for anyone, including his own wife & kids.

e cat was loading bags of groceries onto the rear passenger seats & had a foot in front of one of e rear wheels while trying to reach as far in as it could (not much space to stand in e narrow gap between parked cars, with e car door half-open, & don't ever expect this driver to help anyone load things into his car). & e driver started to drive off. don't ask e cat why this man can drive off with e rear passenger door still open & one less passenger. anyway, this isn't his first time trying to drive off with a passenger door still open.

e cat yelled at him to stop & reverse immediately as its foot was trapped under e wheel, but fell backwards & found itself yelling at e glass window of e door that had swung in, & e driver was kinda deaf behind his own closed door. luckily he (finally) realised that e cat was not in e car & stopped. unfortunately he didn't know that e cat's foot was under e wheel, & looked back at e cat, wondering why it still standing there & not getting into e car. until e person next to him in e front passenger seat screamed & screamed at him to change gear & reverse NOW.

fortunately no crunching noises, even though e cat has very high-arched feet. just clear & deep imprints of e straps (which had to be 'peeled' apart from e cat's skin) & rubber of e cat's sandal on its foot. & some bruised red skin & squashed green-purple veins. e foot can still be flexed & extended, & e cat could still make it up e stairs that night (somehow), & e sandal seems as good as ever. e power of teva - think it was e ability of e thick rubber sole to deform under e weight of e car + raised arch support + cushioning of e thick straps that saved e cat's foot.

guess this is really e end of all jumping for this long-suffering foot that has turned purple (part of it) once before & had a toe slightly deformed - need to modify e shuang1 jian4 taolu liao. so heng that this happened just after e cat had completed e last of all trekking/hiking planned for 2005. whoever &/or whatever has been watching over e cat, a big fat 10-Q to you ;)

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