Gould Library is now Toff Library?

jack63
Wed, 04 Dec 2013 13:07:42 +0000

Carls have a thing with their campus cats. I had an experience with Toff…

It reminded me of a scene from Portlandia. Specifically, Season1, Ep 2 at about 11:50. You can see it on Netflix. On Portlandia the animal is a dog instead of a cat, but the the theme is the same. The two on Portlandia see this dog minding its own business near a restaurant and start screaming at all the patrons sitting in the restaurant because they think the dog is in trouble. They end up ordering gourmet food for the confused dog who eventually runs away.

One night a similar thing happened to Toff. I was walking into Nourse Hall, and there was the frantic woman screaming at everybody walking into Nourse. Honestly, this poor student was a total wreck. Toff was hiding in the bushes near the entrance of Nourse just yelling away. Cats hide and the yell. That’s what they do. They don’t do it because they are hurt or in trouble. As far as I can tell, cats do this because they are bored. This poor Carl outside of Nourse didn’t realize this. She though Toff was hurt, and she was screaming at everybody that entered Nourse. She personally told me (in a loud and frantic voice) that I didn’t give a s!@t about poor Toff. When there was nobody walking into Nourse, she would try to grap Toff who would just run away and keep yelling. It was a bizarre night.

Looks like things ended ok for Toff. The cat had a long life and had the library named after it.