THUNK! The sound a cat's head makes against a window they thought was open!

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I'm sitting here this morning, eating my breakfast, playing on Facebook when Tiki, my grandkitty, decides it's time to play now that she's eaten. She's tearing through the house, batting things around on the linoleum in the kitchen, running up the stairs and down, hiding in her "cube" and bounding out again when she suddenly decides she wants to sit in the front window. Unlike the windows in the back of the house, the sills on the front windows are not deep. She cannot sit there unless the window is open, so she'll sit on the back of the couch and look out unless it's up and she can sit in the track of the window itself. Well, it's been chilly, so we don't have the front window open. She tears out of her "cube", leaps up on the couch and tries to jump into the window without first checking to see if it's open. THUNK!!! Exactly - that's just what her head hitting the glass sounded like! She sat there a second or two (kind of a kitty WTF moment) and then tore up the stairs to race up and down the hallway like a miniature horse before settling down to nap somewhere up there. I was still chuckling to myself about it thinking, "You idiot!" She can be so funny at times, but I've rarely seen her do something quite like this. She's a pretty intelligent little cat who seems quite able to anticipate problems in advance, so this was a surprise to both of us. You could tell she was surprised! I guess she decided that it was time to disappear for a bit to recover from her humiliation. Silly little cat! So, have any of your cats ever done something that surprised you because you knew they wouldn't normally do that? What kind of antics have gotten them in trouble?