10-16-2021, 11:44 AM
So I have a double recliner with a motorized thing underneath to raise and lower things. My dad bought it a few years back.. Anyway under it is a long acme screw that's part of how it works. In case you don't know an acme screw is different from other screws. The threads are made for maximum torque and aren't pointed like most screws. The threads are flat and spaced out more..
So anyway, I was watching TV the other night all comfy reclined back and decided to get up to go get something to eat and heard the cat meowing and screaming really loud under the recliner. I looked under it and her tail hair had gotten wrapped up in the acme screw with what amounts to axle grease to hold it there. I couldn't raise or lower it.. and there was no way I was going to reach in there with a really pissed off cat to free her.. So eventually she pulled away ripping her own hair out. I thought things were over. Well, last night I tried to lower the back again and it wouldn't move. There was so much cat hair wrapped around the screw it wasn't moving up or down. I had to lay on my back and reach under it with hemostats to pull out a HUGE clump of cat hair to get it to move again..
Stupid cat.. Her tail now looks quite different. It used to be kind of fluffy on the end..Now it's more or less pointed where all the hair got yanked out..
She hasn't been back in that room since..
So anyway, I was watching TV the other night all comfy reclined back and decided to get up to go get something to eat and heard the cat meowing and screaming really loud under the recliner. I looked under it and her tail hair had gotten wrapped up in the acme screw with what amounts to axle grease to hold it there. I couldn't raise or lower it.. and there was no way I was going to reach in there with a really pissed off cat to free her.. So eventually she pulled away ripping her own hair out. I thought things were over. Well, last night I tried to lower the back again and it wouldn't move. There was so much cat hair wrapped around the screw it wasn't moving up or down. I had to lay on my back and reach under it with hemostats to pull out a HUGE clump of cat hair to get it to move again..
Stupid cat.. Her tail now looks quite different. It used to be kind of fluffy on the end..Now it's more or less pointed where all the hair got yanked out..
She hasn't been back in that room since..
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Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse, but the one comfort we have is Cincinnati sounds worse. ~Oliver Wendal Holmes Sr.
