The Chosen One

Of all the hundreds of cars in Empire Shopping Gallery car park yesterday night...

...this spiny hungry kitten chose MY car to go and hide. And some more, he/she managed to find its way to under the bonnet while I was shopping away. How it managed to do that...I have no idea!

When I got to my car to leave the car park, I heard meowing sounds. Very loud. Just thought that might be a stray kitten hiding somewhere. As I drove up the ramp, the sound was still there! S***! How could that be????

Stopped the car...looked under my tyres. Silly of me not to open my bonnet at that time. When I knocked the hub caps of the tyres...the meowing stopped. So I thought...Good! The cat ran away!

I drove off and left the building...and damn! The meowing started again! The silly kitten couldn't possibly under my bonnet right????

I stopped again outside Carrefour in the dark...(that was about 9:30pm already!)...and opened my bonnet...and lo and behold...two beady eyes looked back at me at the side of the engine. I was like...OMG! How did you get in there..silly kitten?? And why my car??? I tried to take it out...but as I reached to grab it,the kitten went and hid further into the engine. S*** again! I panicked! How am I gonna get it out? If i drive on...the heat of the engine would definitely kill the kitten and I would be having a dead kitten in my engine?????!!!! That would be a NIGHTMARE!

Called hubby who was at home with the kids....and he suggested to go to the nearest petrol station to ask for help. Perhaps flush it out or something. So I went to Shell ...got the help of the attendants there. They were rather helpful and tried to get it out...but there was nothing much they could do. The kitten probably had fallen to the side of the engine...and hopefully it wasn't stuck! I was rather panicking at that stage already. It was late. I had to go home. I am not gonna go home with a dead cat in my engine! While I was attempting to call the Honda 24Hour hotline....to ask for help....the kitten managed to get out of the entwined jungle of the engine...and stuck its head out. The attendant quickly grabbed its neck and took it out!!! You don't know how relieved I was...to see the kitten and safely removed from my engine! I was already having all visions in my head of the kitten decomposing in my engine...and maggots multiplying and the foul stench as I drove my car!!!! And getting to the workshop to open up the car frame just to get the kitten out!

Anyway...thank God that did not happen!

So Kitten...why my car???