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  • *smash* *crash* WAAAAHH ...

    WHY do I keep breaking stuff I want to keep, while the stuff I don't care about gets through unscathed??

    A few weeks ago I dropped a bag containing, among other things, a mug from the journalism program I attended (and graduated from!) more than 30 years ago.

    Today it was a small figurine that has been in our household for as long as I can remember. It resembles a Hummel figuring but is NOT, thank Bastet, an actual Hummel; it's a knock-off that was made in China or somewhere.

    Meanwhile, a glass bowl that was likely a dollar-store item fell as well, and doesn't appear to have a mark on it.

    I've got 99% of the pieces of both items. Someday I will get some proper repair glue and put them back together as best I can.
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    Face it, Pix -- You're part cat =^ω^=
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    • #3
      I was just reminiscing with Mom about the 89 earthquake--the "World Series" quake, as it happened in the middle of a WS game.

      They had a bunch of super-snooty expensive wine downstairs in the wine cellar. Three bottles survived; the three cheapest bottles of wine they owned.
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      • #4
        Quoth EricKei View Post
        Face it, Pix -- You're part cat =^ω^=
        So that's not just my Siamese mix who does that? It's usual for Siamese?
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        • #5
          I can't tell you how many plates, mugs, bowls, and other breakable things I've broken over the years, majority of them by accident. Or I've dropped food, drinks, paint, and other such things as well, with a good twenty minutes of clean up on most of these things.

          Both of us must be part cat -- now I have a good excuse, thanks EricKei!
          Eh, one day I'll have something useful here. Until then, have a cookie or two.

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          • #6
            Quoth Seanette View Post
            So that's not just my Siamese mix who does that? It's usual for Siamese?
            It's usual for all house cats. Especially if they get bored, which they tend to do pretty quickly.
            “There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged.
            One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world.
            The other, of course, involves orcs." -- John Rogers

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            • #7
              It varies widely, we had a calico who could have easily inspired this, and a longhair who took such care to avoid knocking down anything.
              I'm trying to see things from your point of view, but I can't get my head that far up my keister!

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              • #8
                Quoth Nunavut Pants View Post
                It's usual for all house cats. Especially if they get bored, which they tend to do pretty quickly.
                I've had cats my whole life, and Allie's the only one with a fixation on pushing stuff off flat surfaces that I can recall.
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