When the power poofed off last week, the Prowler had to use that famous cat night vision to get out of the office. Heading downtown, this cat found folks lolling on the sidewalk at midday, the outage putting them on extended coffee break.
It being lunchtime, that was kind of a drag for local eateries. No power in the kitchen meant no food for the hungry, and no juice at the cash register meant figuring out by old-fashioned math how to collect for meals already served. Some businesses just closed down. One young waitress was heard complaining that now she probably wouldn't get any tips. What about those customers who didn't get any lunch?
Naturally, the newspaper's computers went dark, too. Ah, for the good old days when one just lit a candle and kept cranking out stories on the old manual typewriter. Not that the Prowler's old enough to remember that.
We Los Gatans are definitely creatures of habit. When construction workers blocked off that key section of Highway 9 between Los Gatos Boulevard and Santa Cruz Avenue on Wednesday morning, the cars looked like rows of ants that get thrown off their path by rocks placed in the way. After a momentary confusion, they just went around.
While pausing at the Santa Cruz Avenue light, near the famous future Double D's, the Prowler's attention was drawn to a sign advertising a cat show, only to find the show happened in San Francisco last March. Next to the cat sign was half of a Byron Sher campaign sign. With all the chatter about making the entrance to Los Gatos beautiful, you'd think someone would get rid of these bits of flotsam.
If the Prowler sounds cranky, it's the flying weekend trip we took to Oregon and back. You hear about movie stars and CEOs commuting by plane all the time, but this cat prefers to stay on the ground. Besides, airport frozen yogurt just doesn't match the local product. Treat your cat to a bowl of the good stuff.
This article appeared in the Los Gatos Weekly-Times, July 10, 1996.
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