A young boy, about eight years old, was at the corner Mom & Pop grocery picking out a pretty
good size box of laundry detergent. The grocer walked over, and, trying to be friendly, asked
the boy if he had a lot of laundry to do.
"Oh, no laundry," the boy said, "I'm going to wash my cat."
"But you shouldn't use this to wash your cat. It's very powerful and if you wash your cat in
this, he'll get sick. In fact, it might even kill him."
But the boy was not to be stopped and carried the detergent to the counter and paid for it, even
as the grocer still tried to talk him out of washing his cat.
About a week later the boy was back in the store to buy some candy. The grocer asked the boy how
his cat was doing.
"Oh, he died," the boy said.
The grocer, trying not to be an I-told-you-so, said he was sorry the dog died but added, "I
tried to tell you not to use that detergent on your cat."
"Well," the boy replied, "I don't think it was the detergent that killed him."
"Oh? What was it then?"
"I think it was the spin cycle!"
