An unintentional April Fool’s Joke

I rose early in the morning and was trying to wake up more with a cup of coffee when my daughter came in and asked if I had seen her cat.  I told her no, and asked why.

“Because he usually sleeps with me,” she said, “but he wasn’t there when I woke up this morning.”

We searched the house, from top to bottom, trying desperately to find the cat.  We even checked out the closets and cupboards to see if he had somehow gotten stuck in one.  We pulled furniture out from the walls, we looked in the trash can, we even checked in the garage to see if he had snuck in there when we weren’t looking.  There was no sign of him. 

Nearly in tears, we sat down at the kitchen table and tried to think of any place we might have missed.  My granddaughter came in and suggested that he might have crawled into an open drawer because he likes to explore them.  So, off we went to examine every drawer, and we even pulled out the drawers to see if he had somehow gotten caught in the bottom.  Nothing!

We gave up the search, believing that we had absolutely checked every possible hiding place, and sat at the table trying to create a lost poster.  We set it up, printed out several copies and set them on the table for us to grab as we went out the door.  Then we went upstairs to get dressed so we could carry out our sad task.

I came down the stairs with my daughter and granddaughter.  We entered the foyer together.  Lying on the pile of lost posters sound asleep, was my daughter’s cat!  To this day, we have no idea where he was or how we could have missed him, but we sure were glad he was back!