Mom got home yesterday. I was really glad because I was afraid she found a place she liked better than home. I was asleep upstairs when she got here and when I heard her come in, I ran downstairs to see her. Yes! Mom is home.

Then the big man spoiled it all.

We have people neighbors everywhere on our street. We have nice Mr. and Mrs. Neighbor next door. I like to go their house and have coffee in the mornings when they don't go to school. I like to help Mr. Neighbor rake leaves in his yard. They like me too. They pet me and help me escape from the the stupid dogs that live in the yard behind us.

There is another people neighbor Mom calls Gladys Cravitz. She comes to our house a lot and asks Mom questions like "what are you cooking the big man for dinner" and "surely you don't make your big man iron?" When Mom and the big man were working on our project, she came to our house a bunch of times every day.

The neighbor Mom calls Gladys Cravitz says she is afraid of cats. I know what that means. That means that when she was little a bad cat did something to scare her and she never got over it. So I'm always doing something to help her see that cats are not bad and she should not be afraid. When she is in our house, I follow her around and rub on her legs. She screams. She tries to shoo me away. I go to her house and sleep on her porch. She gets all upset and runs me away. When she takes her walk, I hide behind the mailbox and jump out to say hello. She gets mad.

Well, when Mom was gone, because she's ALWAYS gone these days, I went down to the neighbor called Gladys Cravitz' house and her garage was open. I thought I'd go in and visit. I sitting in the garage waiting for her to come out and visit and I got tired. I noticed her car window was down and thought I'd just get in the back seat and take a nap. I must have been really tired because I slept there for a long time.

The neighbor called Gladys Cravitz that is scared of cats came out and got in her car. It woke me up. I stretched a bit and then I realized she was making her car go. I didn't plan on going anywhere with her so I jumped over the seat into her lap so she could let me out.

Well! Well! You would have thought I was a ghost or something! The neighbor named Gladys Cravitz that is scared of cats started screaming and hollering! I didn't know what was wrong but I knew it had to be bad for her to scream like that so I started hissing and clawing. She jumped out of the car hollering for her people man to come out and help her. I was going to stick around and help her but she was carrying on so bad I decided to just leave so I ran home and hid under the little building in the backyard called the shed.

Well, what did that neighbor named Gladys Cravitz do? She called the big man and tattled on me for sleeping in her car! She is a bad tattle tale neighbor! I got in trouble. The big man fussed at me and got all mad. He told Gladys Cravitz that he would tell Mom. And he did. The big man does not know now to keep a secret so please don't tell him one.

Here I was all happy to see Mom and the big man was TELLING ON ME! I was trying to scratch him but he kept moving.

Mom told me to stay out of the neighbor named Gladys Cravitz' yard and out of her car. She said I have to be nice to Gladys Cravitz because she is a nice neighbor. Well, I don't think so! I think she is a trouble maker and I'm never going back to her house. She is not cool and I don't want to be seen with her because I am a cool cat.