Happy Easter! And HOW TO AVOID THE TALKATIVE CRAZY CAT LADY around holidays

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Hello my friends and Happy Easter to you all. I have one more week of CFA training and then I get to do full-on work. Which brings me to this discussion. If you have cats, I’m pretty sure you have encountered this woman in the cat food aisle. Her main hangouts would be Walmart, Meijer, sometimes Kroger, but mainly the first two. This is how the term Crazy Cat Lady came about, not because a woman rescues a bunch of cats, I think that’s great. It’s the way they corner you in the aisle, alone, and you get trapped listening to how many cats they have, how many they’ve rescued, which ones are in the basement, this one fights with that one so they need to be separated, these two sleep with me, this one won’t (she may pull out photos) this one I got when he was only a kitten, these three I gave to my brother-in-law’s sister’s cousin, and so on.. and so on. So how do you avoid this woman? You will find her lurking around the end of the cat food aisle, just waiting for her next victim. She already bought all her cat food, now she’s just looking for friends. Her opening line will usually be: So, how many kitties do you have? Note the word “kitties” .. they rarely say “cats.” Kitties means you’re already in danger of getting stuck with her, when all you wanted to do was pick up 8 cans of cat food and get the heck out. If you make the mistake of answering her, telling her how many “kitties” you have, you are now officially trapped. She will quickly move the conversation back to her, and now you have to listen to all of her crazy cat adventures. She never cared how many cats you have. All she cares about is making you listen to her and wasting your time. There’s only one way out. Took me years of dealing with this type. When they ask you how many kitties you have, tell them you have NONE. This usually nips it in the bud. If they’re ballsy enough, they’ll ask why you’re looking for cat food if you don’t have any cats. That’s when you have no choice but to scare them by saying, “Because all of this cat food is contaminated. I’m a Certified Field Agent and the company I work for has me on assignment, all of this food is expired. Hope you haven’t fed any of this to your cats in the last….. month.” Then gotta go, you’re outta there. Never get stuck with the Talkative Crazy Cat Lady. She will make your shopping experience a living hell. Happy Easter and see you all soon! Xx It’s pretty outside today.