Breaking and Entering

The meowing sounded weaker this time. The crack under the door was too slim to put a dish of water or food under it.
 
  Picking the lock didn’t work. Prying the hasp off the painted, hinged door didn’t work either. Even the screwdriver couldn’t get a grip inside the painted screw.

  I decided to do the necessary thing to free my cat from the neighbor’s garage. I looked in my tool shed and found the gas-oil mixture. I pulled on the rope once and the chainsaw started. It only took a couple of tries and there was a good size hole in their garage door. The cat walked out: hungry, thirsty but unscathed.

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 “So, why are you here?” I asked the woman on the bunk above me.

  “I got caught prowling around my boss's house. I locked a cat up in his garage as a prank.”