I’m sitting here at an auto repair shop getting my car worked on. I used to work here, so the technicians are coming up and talking to me while I’m trying to work. I’m cool with that, since I’ve missed working with these guys and they keep coming up to me, telling me good jokes.

But that’s not the point of this story. It’s about a man and his cats. My friend Kevin, a big, tough, Harley riding auto mechanic, is a cat person. When we used to hang out, I’d always love on his cats Romeo and Pooh. Romeo and Pooh have gone on to the Rainbow Bridge, but Kevin has new cats now.

His cat Lucy is the luckiest cat ever. One hot summer day, a woman came into the shop for an oil change, and when the oil changer opened the hood, he saw something move. It turned out that it was a little kitten who had ridden about 15 miles in the engine compartment of the car all the way to the shop.

Needless to say, the cat was REALLY unhappy about being stuck in the car. Kevin pulled the cat out of the engine compartment and asked the car’s owner if she wanted her cat back. It apparently was just a stray, and the woman didn’t want the kitty, so Lucy came home with Kevin that day.

Now the cat from the engine compartment lives the easy life in air conditioned bliss with Kevin. Yay, I love happy endings!

Photo: Another man’s cat!