imaginarycircus

I was sleeping even though its almost noon because I could not sleep last night and ended up taking a sleeping pill around 3 am and finally sleeping around 4. So I was startled when the maintenance guys came and knocked on our door just now. I asked them for a moment while I hurriedly got dressed and then when I answered the door there was a man I'd never seen before standing the the hall with a cute beagle. I know the usual maintenance guys.

The guy with the beagle asked me if I was all set. And I said for what? He asked me if there were any animals in the apartment and I said yes, a cat. I'm wondering what the hell is going on. He said I had to box the cat up and take him out of the apartment. At this point my brain exploded. I'm half asleep and wondering why the hell this man with a dog wants to come into my apartment, ostensibly to put in a few new ceiling tiles. I think I gave him a look of wild eyed WTF?

Then he said, "Didn't you get the notice."

No. I didn't. Turns out they were looking for bedbugs and that was what the dog was for.

Then he said, "Box up the cat and take him out of the apartment."

O_O I don't know if this man has ever tried to box up a cat before, but he has not tried to box up Bertie before. He haaaaaaaaaattttteeees it.

I asked the man exactly where I was supposed to take the cat because I was so startled. Then he said I could put the cat in the bathroom. So I had to run around looking for Wooster cat who hides when people knock on the door because he is afraid of strangers and he could probably smell the dog.
I put him in the bathroom and picked up his food bowls and that was the best I could do.

The cute beagle sniffed all through the apartment and found no signs of bedbugs anywhere in our building, Thank God. I wanted to squidge her floppy ears, but I didn't know if that was OK.

Not the morning noon adrenaline rush I needed.