Levels of Ignorance
December 29th 2009 21:00
Photo by Ordale. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
My colleague was telling me one afternoon that he had a friend who had no idea that cats purr. He found out one day when he invited her over to his place. His cat was sitting there purring and the friend asked him what the noise was. He told her the cat was purring. Imagine his surprise when she had no idea what he was talking about.
I laughed but then told him I had a similar experience with my ex-neighbour’s cats. Before my neighbour moved into the unit next to mine, I had no close hand experience with cats although I knew they purred. I just never had the opportunity to hear them purr so I didn’t know what it sounded like. It didn’t help that her cats tended to be quiet – until one Sunday afternoon I heard a deep rumbling sound coming from one of them. I asked her what that sound was and she said it was the purr.
Another mistake I made was thinking a dog had to live seven human years before it was considered to be a year old. But I was a young teenager when I made that mistake so that doesn’t count.
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