The Old Man wasn’t old, per se, but on many days he felt like it. Others told him that even though he was 75, he didn’t look a day over 73, so he had that in his favor.
Every morning before heading out the door, The Old Man liked to check the security camera, mainly looking for critters who had passed by his home in the wee hours of the morning. At his age, the Old Man was cautious. Plus, he was always looking for an excuse not to go walking so early in the morning. Any excuse would have sufficed.
The Bobcat showed up frequently, no doubt scrounging for food or trouble. The Old Man’s bet was on trouble and most of the time he wasn’t wrong.
This morning, however, he saw The Bobcat brought along two family members, and they passed by the camera. If they had been human, they could have played a prank on The Old Man by ringing his doorbell and scrambling for cover. But this Bobcat Family had no discernible human characteristics except they were cats, and that was enough to give The Old Man concern.
Fortunately, the video he was watching wasn’t live. He merely had to peek out his Venetian blinds to see if any Bobcats were near his door. Today there were none. Yesterday there were none. One of these days, though, The Old Man expected to see several families of Bobcats with their paws out begging him for treats, as if they deserved any.
No, this Bobcat Family meandered on to the next home to make an appearance on that home’s security cameras. This was social media of the oddest sort.
The moment of truth came for The Old Man: go for his walk on this 40-degree morning and risk an encounter with the Bobcat Family, He’d had encounters before and none of them were pretty. His other option at five in the morning was to head back to his nice warm bed and cuddle with his nice warm wife and forget the morning ever happened.
The Bobcat Family would have to wait another day.
Perhaps they could get in a few dozen views on local security cameras. Perhaps The Bobcat was hoping one of the videos to go viral so he’d be the world’s most famous Bobcat.
With Bobcats, you never can tell.
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