Story Time

So I spent a year studying in Italy. I worked as an English tutor for food money. Though I have many stories about being an English tutor, those will have to wait for another day, as this one has to do with the journey to work.

I'd usually get to the various homes I taught at by subway (my love of the Milan subway system is far to great to be contained in this post). As such, I'd have to walk maybe a block or two to reach the apartment. On one such walk I noticed a cat, just ahead of me on the sidewalk. Its back was facing me, and I just knew that I was going to, no, had to pet this cat. As I got nearer I started with the baby talk anyone whose ever been in the proximity of a cat knows all too well. The baby talk continued until I got close enough to the cat to bend over and prepare to pet it, at which point it turned around and

AAAAAAAAUGH!!







JESUS CHRIST IT'S AN ALIEN! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!

Yes, the cat had a huge blue-green-black EYE and it was STARING AT ME WITH IT. I jumped back in shock and walked quickly past the cat. In retrospect I felt kind of bad, I mean, I'm sure demon cats from hell need love too, but come on. What if the EYE is contagious?

Anyway, that was one of the weirdest experiences of my life.

PS:
A few months later I took a trip to Cinque Terre and photographed this cat:


Though obviously blind and not quite the spectacular proportions of the huge, blue-green-black EYE of the previous cat, I think it's safe to say that alien cats with a single big, creepy eye are taking over Italy.