![]() ![]() "Everything is so overwhelming and so painful right now that people are desperately in need of things they can just laugh at." Followers - and Vitamix - offered up ideas "It is silly and ridiculous and very low stakes and not an actual problem and just something that people can laugh at," she adds. Those include people experiencing seasonal depression, exhausted health care workers and even one woman "who said that her husband had been profoundly depressed for a long time and this was the first time she'd seen him smile in months," Gerson-Neeves recalls. Gerson-Neeves says she has been particularly moved by the comments that their growing audience leaves on Facebook, both the hilarious and the heartfelt. ![]() ![]() While no video evidence was caught of the unfortunate incident, his occupation of the annexed territory was immediately preceded by possibly the single least graceful dismount in the history of felinehood (felinity? Whatever), which somehow involved the sentient soccer ball first smacking headfirst into a wall immediately prior to pulling a fly-you-fools, briefly hanging off of the side of the Vitamix box." "At the cusp of the third-yes, THIRD-week of Appliancegate, we return to the saga to find that the Questionably Sentient Dust Bunny has settled in for the night shift atop the Vitamix. She wrote jokingly in the original post that she would provide updates if the standoff continued, and members of the group held her to that promise, even as days turned into weeks. "I posted it with a tongue-in-cheek caption about how this was breaking news, which clearly this was not, and by the next day I think about 10,000 people had interacted with the post," she explains. ![]() Like any besotted cat owner, she thought it was adorable and snapped a picture, which she posted to a cat-lovers Facebook group. It all began, Gerson-Neeves says, when Max hopped on the Vitamix box as soon as she put it down that fateful December day. I think we all are very much in need of something that is silly and low stakes right now." A single Facebook post left observers hungry for more "But why would we end something that is bringing us so much laughter? The cats are having a good time, and so many other people are enjoying this as well. It would be very easy to pick whoever's on the box up and put them on the floor and open the box," Gerson-Neeves says. But she says she and her wife aren't in a rush to end the stalemate since it's providing some much-needed levity. They could, of course, be hoisted off the box at any point. Gerson-Neeves stressed in a phone interview that the cats aren't literally holding the Vitamix hostage. From there, Nikii says, things spiralled out of control.The cats' page has grown from 64 followers to some 25,000, as people around the world learn about the story. Her four-year-old tuxedo cat, Max, immediately jumped on the box, bemusing Nikii's wife Jessica, who took a picture and uploaded it to a Facebook group that celebrates chunky cats.īy morning the situation had escalated: Max's two 13-year-old siblings, George (Destroyer of Worlds) and Lando Calrissian, had taken an interest in the Vitamix box, too. 16, according to Nikii Gerson-Neeves, one of the trio's owners, when she brought in a new Vitamix blender and left the still-unopened, knee-high box on the kitchen floor. on southern Vancouver Island have tried to claim ownership of a blender box - a saga that has fascinated social media users worldwide. In a standoff that has lasted nearly a month, three cats based in Langford, B.C. In this picture, Lando Calrissian, centre, occupies the coveted spot, while George (Destroyer of Worlds), left, sits on the floor and Max, right, sits on a footstool. Three cats have been taking turns sitting on the box of a brand new blender, leaving their humans bemused and social media enthralled. ![]()
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