Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 13:30:34 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
From: Elspeth Kovar <ekovar at worldnet.att.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Noisy travel [WAS Re: [WSFA] Re: keyboards & flights, was Re:
  Return of The King]
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

At 10:31 AM 12/24/03, Erica VD Ginter wrote:

>I remember one flight with Lydia when she was about 2 where she was seated
>between Karl and me and we took turns literally holding a hand over her
>mouth; otherwise she would scream bloody murder. Not one of my fonder
>moments of motherhood!

A two hour drive with my parents' very unhappy Siamese cats in the back
seat, one of whom should have taken my advice and used the litter box
before we left.  Fortunately I'd decided to keep them in the carrier since
they weren't my cats and I wasn't certain that I could get them back
in.  It had been hard enough corralling them in the first place.  (Besides,
I remembered a drive when we had Alyx loose in the truck and I was trying
to keep her on my side and then, when Dan insisted it was fine, from
heading down towards his feet since he was driving.  "Don't worry," he
said, shortly after we got onto BW Parkway heading out of town, "she can't
get under the ped . . . Ack!")  Suffice to say that it was an unpleasant
trip for all of us.

Of course, this doesn't compare with a drive that my mother made alone many
years ago from DC to the Outer Banks of North Carolina with our first
Siamese cat -- through a hurricane.  I'm surprised that she didn't wind up
deaf, and that Hark had any voice left.  Come to think of it, I don't
recall him saying much during that vacation.

Okay, so it's not about kids.  Some of us make do with what we have, and
give catnip as Christmas presents.

So catnip, or your preferred equivalent, to all this holiday season -

Elspeth