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Not long after I got home and had just finished reading the local paper, my wife came into the lounge and placed her drink on our coffee table and went back to cooking the evening meal (being a Wednesday this was a curry). I got up and went into the dining room (rarely used as such though!), turned around to find the cat on the table and saw it examine the contents of the glass.

The glass promptly fell over on the table and sent a fair amount of its contents (Robinsons Special R Orange) over half of the sofa's cushions and on to the floor. Thankfully the glass didn't break and the sofa is stain resistant. Sitting on the dry half of the sofa, We started dabbing up the liquid with Bounty (the paper towels that is - coconut and chocolate would have made things worse).

While we were doing this, we heard a strange noise and to our horror the whole table (apart from the shelf and the metal legs) instantly turned into thousands of small fragments of glass (and millions of tinier pieces).

Appetite diminished, our dinner was binned and we spent the best part of 75 minutes tidying up the debris. My evening meal consisted of a bag of crisps and a cup of tea

Will be claiming on the insurance today for the table as it had cost us about £300.

This morning didn't go entirely smoothly either. Heard a noise as I was exiting the bathroom after my morning shower and shave. Came downstairs to find that our cat had knocked over one of Tiff's candle holders and had smashed one of its little glass cups.

Anyone want a cat?

No thanks, we already have one cat which was sent back from hell .

Good luck with the insurance - and go out for dinner tonight to make up for all the bad stuff

The moral of the story is to avoid glass furniture and ornaments if you have a cat - this I learned many moons ago

Lorthania wrote:No thanks, we already have one cat which was sent back from hell .

Gribalds Pussycat-Spawn From Hell ! Aye ... you're still lucky with your cat Jav .. very very very very very very very very lucky

Phoned insurance company. Told that my policy has £75 excess on it and i should look for quotes for a new coffee table to give to them. Also a 3rd party will be coming around to look at the table which now consists of 4 metal legs and a bin bag of glass

oh delayed fracture Quite impressive how it managed to not break instantly after the glass struck it?

No idea, but it came as a bloody shock

The chap showed up yesterday (works for Chem-Dry) to see it and told tiff that the insurance company sent him around to see if it could be repaired! LOL

lol

Javai wrote:The moral of the story is to avoid glass furniture and ornaments if you have a cat - this I learned many moons ago

I'd prefer just to avoid having a cat

Terris wrote:Heard a noise as I was exiting the bathroom after my morning shower and shave...

As I was reading this I thought to myself "He forgot the shit!" and had thus concluded that the noise would be your pants filling. Is that normal?

Bracken wrote:

Terris wrote:Heard a noise as I was exiting the bathroom after my morning shower and shave...

As I was reading this I thought to myself "He forgot the shit!" and had thus concluded that the noise would be your pants filling. Is that normal?

LOL

I save doing that so i can have a few minutes break during work hours, then i get paid for it and save loo paper costs

Bracken wrote:

Javai wrote:The moral of the story is to avoid glass furniture and ornaments if you have a cat - this I learned many moons ago

I'd prefer just to avoid having a cat

O but there will be a cat in time.... 2 to be precise!!!!!!