Weird Walking

I had just left for my walk when I came across a man who was standing in the alley looking across at a building. He greeted me and gestured to a cat. He said, "I'm trying to make the cat come back to where he stay at." He was worried about getting scratched. I muttered some vague remarks and kept walking.

Then, as I approached a funeral home that is a little farther up the alley, a female employee of the home who was outside smoking approached me. She got so close to me that she actually touched my elbow (while smoking in my face) to warn me that they were having a military funeral. She didn't want the guns to scare me. I appreciated the warning.

I kept walking. Another minute or two later, the guns did go off. I still jumped even though I was warned.

I kept walking. About thirty minutes later I came back through the alley. The cat guy was in the parking lot where the cat had been, sitting on the trunk of a car talking to another guy. I tried to get by without engaging, but I was unsuccessful. He told me that he knew he wouldn't catch the cat before I came back by. He then told me that he saw me jump when the guns went off. He said he knew it scared me. I admitted that it did.

I kept walking and made it back home without incident.

This is also on a nearby porch.