| Clearing Cake's name |
[May. 24th, 2008|02:32 pm] |
this incident happened about 1 or 2 weeks ago actually but i only really felt like writing now, lol.
mama was out, so it was just zaaki and i hanging out at home when the phone rang. it was aunty vero from no 8:
aunty vero: hello may i speak to ismah?
me: hi aunty vero. sorry no, she's out right now but can i take a message for you?
aunty vero: oh that's alright, i just wanted to tell her about your Kate
Kate is actually Cake, the cat, but mama insists that she should be Kate and calls her as such. Cake likes to hang around outside aunty vero's house, where she likes to perch on the stone stoop next to her gate. So it's very normal for aunty vero's family to have funny stories of their own about Cake.
me: oh, alright, what has she done now?
aunty vero: well, we think she ate one of my son's 3 hamsters. there are only 2 left.
me *laughs, then realises that's the wrong reaction*, omg i'm so sorry! *more words of apologies*
and then she tells me more in detail about how the hamsters/mice (can't remember) are actually kept in her son's room, but since she finds them smelly she insisted he kept them out of the room. later on her 2 grandsons who live at the other end of our street come over to play with the hamsters before they all go out to have their passport photos taken. however when they came home there were only 2 hamsters instead of 3. according to the maid she saw that they had forgot to replace the cover of the hamsters' box or container (or whatever) and when she came into the living room she saw Cake sniffing around the box. So of course, the natural thing to do was to shoo her away but that was it. So she assumed that it must have been Cake who did it.
well, of course she is the only suspect but then again, Cake ALWAYS presents to me all of her kills, which she didn't (i'm quite sure i'd remember if she brought back pet hamsters or mice), so i told aunty vero as such.
aunty vero: oh, she didn't present to you anything?
me: no hamsters yet, but i'll keep a look out for you *ignoring the fact that if Kate did, it would be half dead already*
me: oh but then you never know, it may not have been Kate at all. It may have just escaped its box and is still scurrying around the house.
aunty vero: *very calmly, almost hopeful?* no i dont think so, but if it did it's already been a day. it's most likely to be dead by now right?
me: um, i wouldn't give up hope just yet. a similar incident happened to my cousin and the pet turned up a week later under his bed.
aunty vero: oh, well. just say hello to your mummy for me alright? i'll probably call later though.
me: ok, i'm really sorry about the hamster, i'll be sure to replace it.
aunty vero: OH NO! i forbid you to do that, it's really alright.
me: um alright, bye aunty vero, i'll make sure mama calls you when she comes back.
aunty vero: bye dear!
anyway, the week following that phonecall, most of family had been profusely apologising to members of aunty vero's family everytime we saw each other (one time i had to face Rajwint, the guy himself, when i sent over scones to return aunty vero's dish). we would also insist that we would replace the hamster, to have the offer rejected. half of me was hoping that Cake would just bring the hamster to me so i could return it, dead or alive...
In the end, however, it turned up by itself, like i said it would. Apparently one of the grandsons, Kyle, brought it home in his pocket.... aunty vero told my mother she was sorely disappointed i was right, because she actually wants to get rid of the hamsters, which aren't even Rajwint's in the first place. he was taking care of them for a friend (which in my opinion, would make it worse if Cake really offed the hamster) and she wants the friend to take them back.
Whatever the case, i'm just glad the case of the missing hamster has been solved and my darling Cake's name has been cleared. |
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