Cat Women

one day at work i was making some muffins or scones or something along those lines... and the manager walks up to me and says, "you know those two mills sisters who come in here all the time?" yeah, i tell him i know them. so he asks, "are they cat women?"

ok, do you understand the question? because i had no idea what he was talking about, i had to clarify. cat women?

"yea, cat women," like this is a normal term that people use everyday. i'm thinking about cat woman, batman... is he asking if they think they have catlike superpowers? really, i have no idea what he's talking about. so while i'm trying to compare the mills sisters to the only other cat woman reference i know and figure out whether or not they could in fact be cat woman, or cat women, he finally enlightens me with the meaning of the phrase.

apparently, a cat woman is, yes, a woman.... who will not only be a spinster, but will be an overenthusiastic cat owning spinster in her later years.... which means probably having more cats than friends.

oh, of course. cat women. no, i told him that the mills sisters are not cat women. one is actually getting married soon, and little does she know, ruining her chances of ever becoming cat woman. what i failed to tell him, however, was the really amusing part. that he was in fact asking a cat woman, who didn't even know she was a "cat woman," about cat women, without even realizing it. let me clarify a little bit here. i am not a self-professed cat woman type, but it has been hinted at before. i once had two friends give me a crazy lady action figure, a prediction of me in my gray years. batteries were not icluded, but six or seven cats were. she was old, independant, poorly dressed, and yes, crazy and surrounded by cats. but i am determined not to let this be a self-fulfilling prophesy. receiving the crazy cat lady figure has made me determined not to succumb. however great the tempation to acquire litter upon litter of cats, i vow never to start a cat collection, never to open an feline orphanage out of my home, and never even to own more than one cat, if that, if and when i am an old, crazy spinster woman. its not that being a cat woman is necessarily such a bad thing, but i would prefer to be known for something other than a multitude of cats, and i just don't think many people could ever see past a cat infestation.