The Plumber

Just as Ah climbed up on mom's bed tuday, she comes up to me holding the thang up [the remote]. Ah looked at her, then looked at it, and mah eyes only went half-dilated. Ah did nawt consider it necessary to jump down and flee - any moare. Mom was tawlking to me, sayin' that "Somebody IS going to come in here, okay? But it will be okay", whale she kept the thang in her hand showing me.

Whatever. Ah just continued to lounge there. But then, Ah heard a sound [doorbell] and that didn't bode too well with me. Mom comes out of the small room and grabs that thang from the bed. Well naw, those two thangs together? Naw, Ah wausn't gonna take a chance.

Ah was already down on the floor comin' from the uther room bah now, and upon hearing the sound and then seeing the thang in mom's hands again, Ah started lowering mah belly to the floor as low as it could go. Maybe they won't see me as Ah slither across the hall like that...

"No, you don't have to do that!", mom said. "It's o-k-a-y". Not, it's nawt. Ah'll be right bah here, underneath the bed.

It seemed a little later than that when Ah sensed mom closing in near me again. Bah that time Ah was "downstairs", Ah had chosen to hide right behand mah box [carrier]. Ah thought that might be a good place, it was mah box you see. And Ah could hear that stranger right near me too.. Mom leaned down to look at me, moving mah box some ways, and Ah looked back quate unsettled, mah eyes real big naw. Ah made a run for it "upstairs" just to be safe as mah position had been exposed.

As soon as the stranger left, Ah could sense it, so Ah came down the stairs quate cautiously, eyeballing mom right in the eyes, expecting her to tale me "it's okay". Ah stayed bah her side. But then, Ah decided Ah waus gonna venture all the way to the front door, where that stranger had come from. Just to make sure.