Murphy time (again)
Murphy was a real person back during World War 2 who made that famous statement: “If anything can go wrong, it will.” This principle is why Dave Ramsey (and many MANY others) recommend having an “emergency fund.” Well, Murphy’s Law went into effect again here…in the form of one of my cats.
Saturday late afternoon/early eveing I came home from delivering pizzas and noticed the vent cover in the kitchen had been flipped off the air conditioning vent. I put it back in place and didn’t think anything of it at the time. Yesterday I noticed one of my three cats wasn’t coming out for feeding time. The missing cat is nicknamed “terrorist kitty” and has a thing fro crawling into boxes and small spaces. Last night when terrorist kitty missed her 3rd feeding time I put those two things together…
This morning I called up my CHA repair guys, explained that I was pretty sure I had a CAT stuck down in my A/C duct. They’ve never had this situation before, but sent a guy out to help me out. Underneath the house, we discovered silly kitty wasn’t stuck in the duct, because in that area it is a flexible duct that she tore her way out of! OK, cat is safe (I found her in the basement and carried her squirmy shedding self back into the house where she belongs) but he also discovered another flexible duct that had been torn. The repairs only cost me $79 (this time!) but it was still yet another unplanned expense along with my stupid tax of locking the keys in the truck at the Financial Peace University tapings last week….which was also $79 exactly LOL
