Some store owners have problems that are so specific to them that they sit down with paper and marker and write out their issues. 

Some signs are only addressed at a small group of people, or perhaps just one singular problem child who keeps causing issues. In most retail jobs, you're working 1 to 1 with the general public, and they are nuisances! 

For example, one children's baseball league hung up signs on the fences surrounding the diamond. You can check out the full thing below, but it's basically strongly encouraging people to remember that the players are children, not top-tier atheletes. There's no need to get in a tizzy over little Jason getting struck out! No need to berate the referee just because 7-year-old Charlotte didn't touch the bases as she ran them! 

And that's not even the best sign of the bunch. These things are so specific in their requests and criticisms that they've become works of modern art in the process. 

Cats? Outdoors? Did I read that right?

Yes, you absolutely did. Although cats are known for being lavish, soft-pawed, indoor critters, there is a spark of adventure in every feline. You may have witnessed this predatory, survivalist energy before in your own cat, while playing with the feather toy or cracking open a fresh tin can of wet food. They have it in 'em to be voracious beings of supurrior might and strength! 

Behold the glory of house cats turned outdoorsy with this collection of harness-clad kitties who are geared up and ready for adventure.

Bird TV clearly has a very loyal viewer.

Watching a cat watch birds on TV is way funnier than the actual program. The moment birds appear on the screen, the cat shows up and sits directly in front of the television like it has been waiting all day for the show to start.

From there it becomes a full performance. The cat follows every bird across the screen with slow, dramatic head turns. One bird flies to the left, the cat looks left. Another bird hops across the bottom of the screen and the cat leans forward like it's about to solve the problem.

Every now and then a paw reaches up and taps the TV. Not a full attack, just a quick test, like maybe this time the bird will cooperate. It never does. The bird keeps flying and the cat keeps trying to figure out how television works.

Meanwhile the humans on the couch are trying to watch the same show, but it's hard to focus because the cat has turned the whole thing into a live reaction video. At some point everyone stops watching the birds and just watches the cat.

The TV keeps playing, the birds keep flying, and the cat stays glued to the screen like it has a very important responsibility. By the end of it, the birds are just background entertainment. The real show is the cat trying to catch a flat screen television.

Parents just don't understand — teens don't want to share their headphones with their siblings!

When you grow up with siblings, you are constantly having to share your stuff. I guess that's a good life skill to have, right? It's good to share your things instead of keeping all your treasures to yourself like a dragon sitting on a pile of gold. 

I mean, that's the lesson we teach little kids. But by the time you're a teenager, you may be totally over the concept of sharing all your stuff with your siblings. 

Looking for a black cat didn't require a trip to the shelter after all.

A few months ago, this rescuer came up with a simple plan. Adopt a black cat. The only thing left was waiting for the right moment to go to a shelter and find one. But life had other ideas. While visiting family, a small meowing sound from the garage led to a surprising discovery. Peeking through the window revealed a black kitten darting around outside.

The kitten that first appeared turned out to be from an older litter and wasn't interested in being caught. But the search led to a neighbor's cat who had recently had a new batch of kittens. When the owner heard about the wish for a black cat, they happily offered one of the newborn babies. Just like that, a tiny kitten was placed into waiting hands.

There was no big plan, no supplies ready at home. The little kitten rode back in an Uber tucked safely inside a cardboard box. Dinner that night required borrowing a bit of cat food from a neighbor until a proper shopping trip could happen the next day. It was a slightly chaotic start, but a very sweet one.

A week later, a small package arrived in the mail. Inside were black cat stickers that had been ordered earlier and completely forgotten about. Now there was something even better in the house. Not just stickers, but a real tiny black kitten.

Who needs eggs and milk when you spot a little black kitten on your way to the grocery store?

This mom is the coolest. She tells her son she's going to buy some groceries, and it's supposed to be a quick trip. 3 hours later, he starts to wonder what happened and if he should be worried. She walks in holding a little blue-eyed void kitten! She spotted him and got immersed and distracted with him instead of wanting to get the groceries. She saw him sitting alone by a fence, she watched and waited to see if anything would happen but when no one claimed him, she took it on her own initiative to pick him up herself. She actually went all the way to the vet first before stopping home because she wasn't sure if he was okay. Her son is overjoyed at her arrival with the cat instead of groceries. Who needs bread and cheese when there's cats? Read the full story below for all the adorable and wholesome details. 

Being wholesome isn't just for cats – it's also something you can thoroughly enjoy from the comfort of your own home! 

Meow meow kitty kitty meow meow. Wholesome things are the best things. When life gets too hard, too tough, too traumatizingly difficult, when you feel like the cosmos are laughing at you and all you can do is laugh back, then it's meme time. Memes get us through our darkest hours with their strange liminal space between something deeply human and touching on the human condition, and something equally silly and ridiculous. There's something amazing and confusing about memes because they're deep and also superficial. They really straddle the line between existential crisis and silly detachment from real life tragedies. The best part about them is that they let us escape in the most wholesome and funny way. They transcend earthly delights to something higher up, and cat memes are the purrfect memes. 

They're purrfect because they're exactly like memes themselves. They straddle that liminal space between two opposing forces. Two opposites are at a crossroads with memes. They are the split between something so cute, wholesome, innocent, and adorable, and something sort of evil, malicious, naughty, mischievous, and silly. There's a pleasant humor to them, and they get us through our darkest days. 

Being a cat pawrent is more than just owning a cat at home. It's really like having a medicine that lives with you in the form of a cute furball. So when you're feeling overwhelmed with life's tumults, with the pain of day-to-day existence, monotonous work schedules, existential crises, global issues and economic collapse, you know you always have cats and cat memes to get you through it. And just remember, we're all in the same boat, you're not alone. Cats don't have the cognizance to understand what's really going on, so you can detach too. 

This restaurant server is the epitome of finding calm under pressure. 

A lot of workplaces insist that they're a "fast-paced environment," but there is probably no job with a faster pace than working in a restaurant. There's just always so much going on — a revolving door of hungry customers and take-out orders, plus tables to clean, new customers to seat, repeated drink orders, and large parties that'll be sat for hours. This can seem incredibly intimidating to any newbie! But there are some waiters who've been at the job for so long that they're unflappable. And this person seems like one of those people. 

All cats deserve a happy ending.

Even if it takes years of your time, not giving up on a cat always yields fluffy fruits - purrs, affection, slow blinks, and lots of love. And it's always worth it. Winning the love of a cat, especially when the cat might be shy, reserved, or simply skittish, always feels like the sweetest thing. Because cats don't give away their trust that easily. Especially if the cat in question went through some hardships that made them shell-up - but when a cat comes out of their shell, it's like witnessing a beautiful flower blossom in the height of spring.

This one cat, adorable Babycakes, went through a lifetime of difficulties. For years, the only one who took her seriously was a next-door neighbor with full hands and a fuller house. But even these conditions never stopped her from being a safe place for Babycakes. And as mentioned, it paid off. Finally, after more than a decade in the yard, the cat trust allowed her to come inside and enjoy the indoor princess life. Sometimes, the Cat Distribution System might send you a cat who's not ready - but at some point in time, they will be. You just need to be patient.

Too many offices have that one coworker who treats their job title like a typo. On paper she is just another staff member. In her heart she is the shadow director sent by the universe to audit everyone's competence and heart rate. Coworkers like this one are like a new breed of teacher's pet, a breed that acts like a vice principal and bosses the teacher around

Get ready for the week like your cat would.

Sunday evening is officially the calm before the claw, that eerie silence where the only sound is your cat judging your life choices from atop the fridge. Meowntally preparing for Monday requires a very specific, feline-inspired strategy: if you simply close your eyes and pretend the sun isn't rising, the emails can't find you. We are taking a leaf out of the purrfessional handbook and deciding that productivity is a myth invented by people who don't own heated blankets.

Being a cat pawparent means accepting that your Meownday motivation is currently trapped under a sleeping kitty who has decided your lap is a permanent residence. Whether you're channeling the hissterical energy of a kitten discovering a cucumber or the claws-out cattitude of a senior cat denied a second breakfast, it's time to furtify your spirit. Let's face the coming week with the unearned confidence of a creature that knocks expensive vases over just to hear the thud. Stay pawsitive!

You know that saying, "don't bite the hand that feeds you?" Well, that can be applicable in more than one setting. For instance, this cousin bit the hand that was lending him money, and he immediately had to deal with the consequences. 

Three cheers for the four-legged hero of our story, Goose!

It makes us sad that people resort to abandonment when they can't deal with their pets, instead of choosing many of the responsible courses of action that are purrfectly pawssible. You could make a post on Facebook, seeing if anyone wants to adopt them, or even give them to an animal shelter so that they have a chance of finding a new family and being adopted again. What you absolutely should not do, is put all four of your unwanted cats in a pink cage, zip tie it shut so they can't get out, and then abandon that cage in the forest.

While on a hike with his mom, Goose, the golden retriever, alerted his mom to something strange off the trail. He led her to the bottom of a ditch, where she found the metal cage that housed our four soon-to-be rescue cats: Ginger, Sporty, Baby, and Posh (we hope you appreciate their names as much as we do). With no way to get out, these cats would have been in big trouble if it hadn't been for Goose and his purrfectly astute nose!

After giving them some food, Daisy, Goose's mom, contacted animal control, which transported the kitties to a nearby shelter for treatment. With two of them being Siamese cats, we're sure that they'll be adopted into a family that loves them in no time. 

Throwing his cousin under the bus was a bad idea.

The corporate world is all about measuring KPI's, meetings that could have been an email, and climbing the ladder. With the ultimate goal of being so important at work that you can neglect your job and close every email with, "Sent from my iPhone," many workers start to get competitive in the office. But when your cousin is the one who got you the job in the first place, it's important to remembernot to bite the hand that fed your paycheck. 

Lest you become like the entitled one-upper tech guy in this next story.

"Get a cat", they said. "They're low maintenance", they said. "You'll hardly even notice they're there" - yeah, right.

The biggest lie anyone can tell you about owning a cat is that it's boring. The second biggest lie is that they're less work than a dog. They're just a different kind of work, and we can certainly say that our lives with our cats are the farthest thing from boring. Unless you call yelling for your cat to get off the kitchen counter from two rooms away because you heard a clink of their tiny, purrfect paws stepping on the ceramic case where we store our bread.

Sure, you don't have to take cats out three times a day to use the bathroom and get out energy, but you do have to deal with them climbing your shower curtain, and sometimes even your wall. You also have to deal with them waking you up at 3 AM because they decide that your face is the purrfect place to sleep, despite having at least three beds scattered throughout the house (that have never been used once). You may not have to train your cats, but you do have to deal with your cats training you. Did we succeed in getting our cats to get off the counter when we tell them, or did they train us to give them a treat every time they get on, and then off, the kitchen counter?

Don't misunderstand us - our cats are the greatest gift. We love them more than life itself and we wouldn't trade them for the world, but they're not easy. They will change your life, for better and for worse, but mostly for the better. Just get used to midnight snuggles, cleaning litter boxes, and a tiny gremlin that never stops attacking your feet as you walk by. And if you don't believe us, we've got 24 funny feline photos below that demonstrate exactly that. 

Teachers have no problem texting parents with updates… but should they be messaging at 11 PM? There are plenty of good reasons a teacher might need to reach out to parents. They may have to alert them to a child's bad behavior in class, or mention that the kid has been forgetting to turn in homework. Parents should be involved in their kid's schooling, and texting is one of the easiest ways to do that. Instead of an email that can be swiftly forgotten, a text will probably get answered a lot faster. 

Every once in a while, a cat's true soulmate… is a dog. 

Yes, we know that this is hard to believe. People are so fervent about cats and dogs hating each other that they don't understand that, sometimes, the opposite is true. Cats and dogs can be best friends under the right circumstances. If a cat and a dog grow up together, they will learn to understand each other over time. If a dog is extra patient or a cat is extra energetic, their energies might match even without them growing together and learning to understand the differences in each other's behaviors. 

And sometimes, it's fate. Sometimes a cat and a dog are soulmates - two souls separated somewhere throughout history, waiting to get back to one another. And once they are there, they do not let go. This is what happened in this story. This doggo saved this kitty from a fire. He brought her home, weak and in need of help and love, and did not leave her side. And she didn't want him to. And now, 8 months down the line, they are still connected at the hip. They still don't leave each other's sides for long. Because they are two parts of the same whole. 

Parking drama never ends well.

Whether you're the offender or the one on the receiving end, parking wars will always remind you why you should've purchased acres of land in the middle of nowhere. Now, you're dealing with some random neighbor's boyfriend's vehicle, which has grown old and dusty in the back of your shared driveway. The kicker? You can barely get out of your own spot.

Cat memes are the best form of free therapy. 

We are firm believers that everyone could use going to professional therapy at some point in their lives. We've all been through things, and it could never hurt to discuss those things with someone who might actually be able to help with them. Of course, that doesn't mean that we don't appreciate other forms of therapy. Self-help books, journaling or creative writing, meditation, and other ways of dealing with stress are great. But our favorite form of alternative therapy is… laughing at cat memes. 

Funny cat memes are free, extremely accessible, and they always - without fail - make us smile. Scrolling through some silly cat memes first thing when we wake up, before we even get out of bed, is the easiest way for us to smile. Regardless of what is going on in the world or in our purrsonal lives, cat memes are there for us - pure, comforting, and never-ending. It doesn't matter how many you have seen, there are always more out there, being created each and every day, by cat-loving people like you guys. And even the ones that we have already seen before still manage to make us smile, and that is pretty pawsome. 

Planning a group trip sounds fun in theory… until someone decides the guest list is more of a suggestion than an agreement. When one woman stood by the original plan after her friend tried to add extra people without asking the group, what could have spiraled into full-blown drama instead turned into a bigger conversation about respect, communication, and why "no" isn't a personal attack. Sometimes protecting the vibe isn't about exclusion: it's about honoring what everyone already agreed to.