yard needs work but the neighbors are watching / that's okay, the weeds are decorative
A Anxiety Cat post.
Your boss messages "Can we have a quick chat later?" with no time. You spend the afternoon updating your CV, drafting a farewell email and mentally selling the car. It was about the Christmas party. The phone rings. Unknown number. You watch it ring out as if it were a wasp on the table. Then you spend twenty minutes googling the number. Four cars ahead of you at the drive-through. You rehearse "cheeseburger meal, no pickles, Coke" all four cars. At the window you say "yes please" to a question nobody asked. Your food in the restaurant is wrong. You eat it. When the waiter asks if everything's all right, you say "lovely, thank you", and tip extra for the experience. **Why it caught on:** the wide-eyed black cat first went round on a demotivational poster from about 2007, "What has been seen cannot be unseen", and became Anxiety Cat on Meme Generator in 2011. It said out loud the tiny private panics everyone thought were theirs alone.