It's more likely, though, that he was just a crazy cat lady.

And it's a lot easier to do that when the person doing the entertaining doesn't look like a crazy cat lady who lives next door.

If the Cat Lady was in there, she couldn't answer.

I seem to have this animal magnetism for cat ladies.

It might be one of those things, like the Cat Lady.

"Cat women are not contained by the rules of society," the cat lady says.

A hand closed around his left ankle, and he looked down into the Cat Lady's grinning face.

But even crazy cat ladies are made one innocuous feline at a time.

"I can't wait to be old," the Cat Lady explains.

"That where you know the cat lady from?"