Sorry that it's not funny, but I had to share.
Today I did the most child-like thing I've done in years. And that's saying something - I'm the kind of person that keeps a yo-yo in their bag and loves anything that shines or sparkles.

I was driving down the road of my estate, weaving between the traffic calming measures that litter the paths. There is good reason. Kent's finest boy racers seem to take great pleasure in attempting to break the sound barrier down that road. With all the bumps and sleeping policemen, they still go at least 40mph.

And today, as I was following one, tutting, he hit a kitten. I slammed on my brakes, nearly sending myself through the windscreen, and threw myself out of the car. The car in front was speeding off into the distance.

When I reached him, it was clear he wasn't going to be with us long. In the ten seconds between me stopping and running to get to the cat, I'd been mentally calculating how long I was to live on bread and water to pay for the guy's vet bills. Now, I wondered how long he'd be with me.

I picked him up into my arms, careful not to hurt him any more. He didn't resist at all. He didn't hiss or scratch, just accepted. He couldn't have been more than 3 months old. And here he was dying at the expense of some stupid fucktarded boy racer who was showing off his choons and his new exhaust. I sat on the pavement holding him, stroking him gently and speaking to him in a soft voice.

Someone over the road was lovely enough to find me a blanket to wrap the kitten in, and find a phone book. By the time I'd picked up the phone to dial my vet to ask him to come and put him to sleep, he'd gone. It was over in a few minutes, and I think he was so out of it from the knock that he wasn't suffering. But regardless, it's fucking horrible.

He didn't have a collar on, and nobody I asked knew whose he was. I later went and rinsed the blood away from the road. I hope that whoever's missing him right now just thinks he ran away to a new family, as unrealistic as that is.

So the most childish thing I've done as an adult is cry like a baby for a cat I'd never even seen before. And I feel no shame in it. I'll never forget him.
(TheHBoxster is probably playing Beatles Rock Band on, Sat 19 Sep 2009, 23:37, 15 replies)

That's made me cry too.
Poor little kitten.
( Bob Todd whee, Sat 19 Sep 2009, 23:56, closed)

bastards
and you are lovely. a kittin was delivered to a vets a friend works at by a bensons bed man. he had found a poorly cat with a bad eye. eye was lost and no one wanted said kittin. she was to go to the rspca, and possibly not homed. NO says us. she is now our kittin and is called molly magpie and is our pirate cat. my GF whipped this up in honour of today and i am hoping this will cheer you up.


edit: image reduced
(DreddPirateBob has watched every scifi film ever on, Sun 20 Sep 2009, 0:16, closed)

molly magpie the monocular moggy rides again!
YARR!
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sun 20 Sep 2009, 1:01, closed)

That picture
has given me a "just woken up" smile. :)
Lovely little cat, and a really nice story. Looks like one of mine back home, but he had a Hitler-style black smudge on his nose XD Give Pirate Kitty a snuggle for me :)
(TheHBoxster is probably playing Beatles Rock Band on, Sun 20 Sep 2009, 7:41, closed)

:(
Have a click
I wish more people would do things like this...
(Hidden Agenda Didn't believe it was a moon for a second, Sun 20 Sep 2009, 0:18, closed)

I've clicked
but I don't like it. This makes me very sad... I hate people like that.

Have a *hug*
( warmfuzzies Isn't here, Sun 20 Sep 2009, 10:01, closed)

Thank you.
:)
(TheHBoxster is probably playing Beatles Rock Band on, Sun 20 Sep 2009, 10:28, closed)

That is not a childish thing ...
It's a human race thing. Thanks for being a member.
(FleetlordVT, Sun 20 Sep 2009, 11:47, closed)

I'd like to think
that the shithead that ran him over and then drove off is sub-human.
(TheHBoxster is probably playing Beatles Rock Band on, Sun 20 Sep 2009, 17:20, closed)

If that makes you childish..
Then I must doubly so, since I teared up from just reading about it.
(Aruu does not put all her trust in root vegetables., Sun 20 Sep 2009, 17:12, closed)

I cried...
...and I don't normally.

The cnut will pay, in Kitten Hell...
(Superfool is going to skull-fuck your ladyfriends..., Mon 21 Sep 2009, 0:55, closed)

Now that's a sad thing right there
and I've welled-up at your telling of it. Have a click.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 22 Sep 2009, 10:50, closed)

My god
that's so sad.
I'd cry if I could.
How fecking dare they just drive off like that too, if I hit anything I'd immediately stop and look after the poor thing.

Well done you for giving a monkeys
(Evilweevil is covered in bees, Tue 22 Sep 2009, 12:47, closed)

Good Kind B3tan
Blub, click
(SBCkittencure, Tue 22 Sep 2009, 14:13, closed)

:(
As said, not childish but human. Thank you for being part of the civilised world.
(Mummy V, Thu 24 Sep 2009, 5:30, closed)