Would you believe the girls walk backwards all over the house? The place is too small for them to turn around in the little hallways, or coming through the kitchen, so they just put it in reverse.
This is something that actually happened to my Mom. On the landing where the stairs turn in their big, old Arts and Crafts style house there is a what used to be a half bath. My Mom figured out how to move things around and they remodeled and put a shower in the corner. It's very small, as you can imagine.
My Dad and I were standing on the landing putting up some bookshelves. Mom was in the bathroom. Her yellow and white tomcat, CJ, came bounding up the stairs, yowling at the top of his lungs. When he got to the landing, he threw himself against the bathroom door, knocking it open enough to run inside.
We heard Mom start screaming and we heard something thumping, but something was blocking the door (it opened inward) and we couldn't get it open enough to see what the emergency was.
Finally we got the door open enough to see what was going on. The reason we could get the door open was that Mom had managed to get away from it and stand on the toilet, balancing precariously with a foot on each side of the seat. She'd been in too big a hurry to get out of the way to put the lid down.
CJ was having a grand time, showing off his trophy, throwing it up in the air and catching it, tossing it and batting it all over the bathroom . . .
A great big black rat!
You could
see that cat laughing at Mom. She'd taken away a mouse he'd been all set to devour earlier that day . . .
