And I returned from Banff last week, the family vacation, to discover that the neighbors had gone away. There were clues, the piles of mail in their inbox, the strange but welcome quiet, and a mewing at the cellar door.
They had left their cat with a small dish of food and cup of water in downstairs hallway, the laundry room...they wouldn't be gone long.
Which is good, as I have to collect on July and Junes utility bills, read the water meter to correct an error on the last billing.....
But they didn't return, the cat has moved upstairs, the stack of mail has grown, the litterbox overflows, the food is refilled by me every other day, there was no note to look after the cat, perhaps they counted on me to return and find it, or perhaps the thought of returning to a mummified cat wasn't so disturbing for them, I send them an email, but there's no response, the landlord isn't aware they've left, I've a phone number I can call, will call later this morning, but somehow I suspect that they've just disappeared, leaving behind unpaid bills of over $500.00....