Why cats are evil...Base   Author:  36704  Category:(Discussion) Created:(7/6/2008 12:50:00 PM) This post has been Viewed (552 times) I was minding my own business on the 4th getting ready to cut up some watermelon when I hear a distinct sound. A cat coughing up a hairball. I look at said cat and it's hacking up said furball on the rug. Now, almost my whole house is hard wood floors or ceramic tile, but said cat felt the need to try hacking up the hairball on an expensive rug. I decided to save the rug and get the cat to move onto the wood floors to carry on with the hairball extraction. Knife in hand I walk towards the cat and the rug. The next few minutes are a blur. I'm pretty sure the rug attacked my foot propelling me forward where the knife in hand decided to slice across my upper thigh right through my shorts. At this point said cat is nowhere around, not that I blame him, a crazy man with a knife fighting a rug, I'd probably run too. After two hours of trying to get the bleeding to stop I decided maybe a trip to Urgent care was needed. I got taken back to the triage right away. The nurse of course asked what happened, without any dignity left I explained it to her. She took me back to a room where they do stitches and whatever else instead of a regular room telling me that I would indeed need stitches. She goes on to "prepare" the area for the Dr. which included shaving and cleaning out the cut. So, there I sit, with a partially shaved upper thigh, no dignity and the Dr. comes in only to let me know he can't stitch it. That it would need to be done by a plastic surgeon. That the depth and the way it was cut, some of it would need to be recut and stitches on the inside and then stitches on the outside. He gave me instructions on how to treat it and if in three to six months I didn't like the scar I could go to a plastic surgeon and have a scar revision. The nurse came back in and packed the wound and I kindly thanked her for unnecessarily shaving my leg. Both the Dr. and the nurse asked if the watermelon was any good..... Said cat has still not been forgiven for deciding to use the rug. The cat gets a 0/5. The knife was a Zellinger A.J. Henckels which I give a 5/5. They can be found at Macys or Nordstroms. You can join Unsolved Mysteries and post your own mysteries or interesting stories for the world to read and respond to Click here Scroll all the way down to read replies. Show all stories by   Author:  36704 ( Click here ) Spring is coming