It was around 12:20AM or so. I was heading back to my
car after visiting friends at their
apartment. When I see it.
It was a lovely Siamese cat. A traditional siamese, (IE, that has the coloring but doesn't look anorexic). It looked young; slightly smaller than the usual size Siamese grow to be. He looked at me with his beautiful blue eyes, but didn't run away....
I knelt down and called to him... He came right up to me and meowed a couple of times, rubbing against me, allowing me to pet him and purring happily. He had no collar, but was obviously well-fed and well-socialized with people. It was one of the most lovely cats I'd ever seen in my life.
That cat would have likely become mine if I had a way to know for sure that no one else owned him. Or, judging by how sweet that cat was to a total stranger, was owned by him....
So I inserted into my mental to-do list, in big black permanent marker:
- Get a cat. Preferably Siamese.
I will remember that blue-eyed face for a long time...