A-Pop
Revealed
It seems like the source of all chaos and disintegration is everywhere –
especially in California
February,
2001
My belief that A-Pop may have somehow rematerialized in your household has now been confirmed by reports and photos from around the country.
One of the most perfect representations so far is in Molly, who lives in New Jersey (photo right), but there are plenty of other cats who closely fit her profile. So it seems certain, as my investigative assistant, Tammy the Greyhound, proposed, that A-Pop is, in fact, living in many homes at once.
Crisis in California
Her powers, however, appear to have increased dramatically. Several
readers on the west coast who have an A-Pop lookalike in their home
believe that she may be the cause of the entire current power crisis in
California.
Invisible &
Inconceivable
More alarmingly, those of you who should be relieved to know that you
don’t have A-Pop living in your house, nonetheless unaccountably insist
that she is there anyway.
One
reader, for example, wrote in to say that when her cat, Cina (photo
left), goes racing around the house, she is being chased by the
invisible A-Pop.
And in spite of the fact that A-Pop is a big fluffy orange cat, readers sent in photos of bright calicos, gray Persians, and brown Siamese, all of whom they claim to be A-Pop.
But if you think these people are stretching reality, consider the following from a reader who believes that her husband may be A-Pop.
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You may simply be succumbing to A-Popsicle Paranoid Hysteria. |
“My darling husband puts out street lights when he drives or walks under them,” she writes. Without even stopping to check whether he has a bushy orange tail, she tried to get him to sit still for a photo by offering him a large dish of tofutti ice cream as an extra treat. He ate the treat but apparently began to hiss and threatened to scratch the furniture when she tried to take his photograph.
If you, too, find yourself believing that your husband, or the kids, or the family dog, are really a big, fluffy, ginger cat, please take a deep breath. People suffering from this end up believing that they are being stalked by a huge and infinitely expanding A-Pop and that their sole purpose in life is to take her photo.