Today, at the age of 20, I still have a bed time. It is strictly enforced by my cat via endless meows if I am up past 11 pm. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I'm a 22 year-old guy with a 11:00 pm curfew. FML
Today, our cat doesn’t care much whether she gets into my room or not. Except at about 3 a.m. each night. That’s the time she sits outside the door, meowing to be let in. FML
Today, between my cats scratching every surface they can find, my boyfriend's snoring, and the dog barking at every slight noise outside, I'm unlikely to ever get more than 3 hours of sleep at a time. FML
Today, my incredibly needy rescue cat - who knows she doesn't get to go into my bedroom at night - decided that she needed to wail and scratch the bedroom door from midnight until 5 a.m. Now that I'm awake, she's ignoring me because she knows I'm mad at her. FML
Today, it’s the fifth day in a row that my mom has vacuumed right outside my room, from 5 to 11 AM. Despite this, I still can’t fall asleep before midnight. FML
Today, as every day for the past three weeks, my girlfriend's cat kept us up from 3:30am crying nonstop. We've tried everything, and even exiled my well-behaved cat to keep him company. Now she cries because she feels she's being punished. Starting around 4am. FML
Today, I discovered that my family routinely waits until after my bedtime to order a pepperoni pizza, my favorite food. If that wasn't bad enough, I'm 17 and still have a strictly enforced bedtime. FML
Today, my 21-year-old cat, who has learned when I go to bed and waits in my bedroom for me every night, was waiting for me as usual last night. She got on top of me and I fell asleep pretty fast. When I woke up, she was still there, so I decided to wait until she moved. It took me an hour to realize she'd died. FML
Today, after months of believing my house is haunted, and years of being scared of the dark, I finally had to admit to myself that the only way I can go to the bathroom in the middle of the night is if my cat follows me and sits outside the door. I'm 23. FML
Today, I'm on my 20th consecutive night without decent sleep, ever since circumstances forced me to move back to my parents' bungalow, and my dad's thunderous snoring keeping me awake. FML
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rhiley 26
fair enough tbh someone's gotta lay down the law
xyris_fml 28
Invest in some nice noise cancelling headphones.
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NamelessGhoul 11
Your kitty loves you and is looking out for your best interests. Isn't that nice?
zach055 23
YDI for having a pet.
latchhooker 17
I had a cat like that several years ago (he went over the rainbow bridge 5 years ago, but I had him for 8 years). He always came to get me at bedtime and let me know that it was time to go to bed. During the summer I would stay up to help Mom can stuff from the garden. One night he came out as always and I told him that I would be back in a few minutes (the canner had several more minutes but I didn't want Mom to fall asleep and risk having it blow up). He went back and exactly 2 minutes later, he came back. He sat on the floor and meowed at me (more of an "ow" but that was his "meow"). I told him to go back to bed and I'd be back in a few minutes (again). Exactly two minutes later, he was back again. He stretched out on the floor, glared at me and started thumping his tail against the wood floor. It reminded me of how people will lean against something (wall or counter) and start tapping their foot when they get impatient. I told him that the canner was almost done and that I could go back at that point so he should just "go get comfy" and that I'd be right back (by this point both Mom and I are laughing). He went back (again) but was back out within a minute, sat right in front of me and meowed loudly (an actual "meow") which sounded very similar to a very demanding "NOW!!!" Mom and I lost it as the timer went off and we turned the canner off (and he got his way). Apparently he could not only tell time but he could also read a timer. He was very smart about a lot of strange things (opening doors, opening windows, telling time, knowing to be gentle with kids who didn't know not to pull on the "movey part on the back" (tail) or carry by the neck (the kids (my very young cousins who, because of family allergies, didn't know what a cat was, much less how to act around them and were only 2) were quickly stopped and told not to do that but little kids can be tricky sometimes.), but very stupid about others (water in a bathtub when someone is trying to take a bath for example). He was always providing some sort of entertainment. I still miss that goofball. We took in a few strays and one of them does something similar.
rldostie 19
I have a cat who used to do that too. She was very strict--had to be in bed by a certain time or there would be hell to pay. She wanted to go to sleep in my be and couldn't/wouldn't unless I was there so she felt the need to impose a bedtime. Thankfully she grew out of it. Never heard of another cat who did this. Glad to know I'm not the only one who was held accountable to a feline!
engineerosaurus 26
My mom has a magnet on her refrigerator that reads: DOGS HAVE MASTERS, CATS HAVE STAFF. Seems like it fits here.
hipposteve 21
this cat loves you and is concerned about your rest! lol.
WOTAN1488 24
Ditch the pussy
Nygma 14
I honestly couldn't give a **** about that; what I want to know is why you put this under the "intimacy" category?
Afrochaun 4
You deserved it, cats suck.
vikky538 29
You got cat alarm