After an incident where one of our subs marred the floor pretty badly (We won't name any names, but it was the electrician), we decided to put protective plastic on the floors to cut down on the damage to the floors since we still had the movers coming and various other contractors. This was several weeks ago.

This plastic you can buy at Lowe's in the flooring department. It comes in 100' lengths and has a sticky back on it to adhere to the floor. When you lay it down, enormous amounts of air gets trapped underneath and form "bubbles". The longer you walk on the plastic the more it gets pressed down and in turn the more it compresses the air in the "bubbles". Cats hate walking on plastic, so Moscow was generally not fond of what we had done and as it progressed we became increasingly less fond of it too. You see, these compressed air bubbles became something like little sonic land-mines, with an explosive sound not unlike bubble-wrap (the BIG bubble-wrap). Not even the stealthiest of ninjas could have traversed our floors without a snap-crackle-pop. The pinnacle of the absurdity of the situation occurred one night while laying in bed, we heard a loud snap! We both about died laughing while we were imagining the look of disgust on Moscow's face as he walked across the floor snapping one of the loudest bubbles yet.

Well, kitten is happy now, because this weekend we pulled up the plastic. When the plastic came up in the bedroom, he had a solid two hours of frisky-time. Unfortunately, this was when we were going to bed, so I had to remove his bell collar so we could get some sleep.

Since the plastic has come up, we have purchased cute little baby blue booties for any future contractors to cover their boots with. I can see it now... "You want me to wear wut?

Tags: Floors, Contractors, Kitten, Plastic