On my watch

When Rob and I started dating, it was on the tail end of a messy break up with the girl friend before me.

Thankfully, I never had to come face to face with her and it was easy to avoid any issues.

However, Rob’s mom and “The Ex” remained friends. Nice.

One day, The Ex asked his mom to bird sit for her. Apparently she was going away for a week and needed someone to watch her budgie for her. Of course, his mom said yes so she brought her caged bird over to the house.

Later that week, I was at the house by myself as I waited for Rob to get home from work. In this house, there were multi-levels and Rob’s bedroom was second from the bottom. I was downstairs reading when I heard a weird noise from the kitchen / dining room area.

I came upstairs to see the family cat up on the dining room table. When I went to push her off the table, she turned around and looked at me.

She had feathers coming out of her mouth.

My eyes immediately shot over to the EMPTY bird cage!

Then back to the cat.

She looked like the cat that ate the canary!

That’s because SHE HAD! Only it was a budgie!

OH MY GOD ! On my watch, the cat ate the Ex’s bird!

NO ONE was going to believe that I didn’t serve it up on a silver platter.

Thankfully, his mom handled the breaking of the news to The Ex and I never really heard what happened when she did!

Lesson Learned? Don’t be home alone in a house where you don’t belong!