Cat Cafes: It's a Japan Thing

Kitty, Don't Touch!  Pew Pew

An article on CNN's Travel blog states that a new trend in Japan is "Neko cafes."  These cafes are special in that they allow you to pay for the privilege to hang out with cats. ("Neko" might mean "cat."  I dunno, I nearly flunked Spanish.)  According to the article, you may not wake a sleeping cat, nor may you pick up or pet a cat unless it rubs up on you, which in my experience is every living creature in a coffee shop.  

Sure, there are times when I am sitting in a nice cafe and wonder, "I really wish there was a nice person to talk to, or a cat to ignore me," as I drink this slightly warmish coffee-colored wet stuff I could not pronounce, "Also, there is no random hair in this like there is at my grandma's house when she lets the cat sit on the coffee machine.  I should call that hippie girlfriend I had in college whose apartment reaked of cat urine, cause that's what I could go for right now."  

I do not drink much coffee anymore.